Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as though everyone had dashed off on a far bigger , far better story than they had covered in their lives . |
| 2 | Round it a prolific jungle of weeds had grown up in the otherwise bare yard . |
| 3 | Godwin and his circle had grown out of a relatively broad tendency within the rising industrial bourgeoisie , but was then , as a specific formation , forced into crisis — into a dissidence verging on rebellion — within a general crisis of the social order , itself still politically directed by another class , the ruling landed aristocracy . |
| 4 | By 1912 , however , the influence of Matisse and the Fauves , which the Brücke had grafted on to a more purely native form of Expressionism , was definitely on the wane , and German painters were feeling the influence of both Cubism and Futurism . |
| 5 | Widespread evidence indicated that it had burnt down in the later second century . |
| 6 | Three years before this , Yale University Press had brought out in a very handsome volume called Make It New seven essays representing Pound 's criticism at its most scholarly , on such recondite topics as Cavalcanti , and Elizabethan Classicists , and early translations of Homer . |
| 7 | But the Grand Emissary had swung up in the very newest model of the Novablast Personaluxury Liner , making me feel like a meteorite next to an asteroid . |
| 8 | Whereas Vidor had started out with a theoretical notion and then wrapped it in a melodrama , Capra had started out with a fairly ordinary story and then breathed charm , wit , pace , sex , and reality into it , not least by harnessing the natural talents and showmanship of Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable . |
| 9 | She looked very vulnerable and Emily wished that they had started off on a more pleasant footing . |
| 10 | There are changes in technology : electronic systems take over from the electromechanical mode typical of ‘ mass culture ’ ( just as that had taken over from the purely mechanical production and distribution methods of the earlier bourgeois period , epitomized by music printing ) . |
| 11 | She had thrashed around like a freshly caught trout on a grassy bank . |