Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Hugh , although able to look like a jeune premier from time to time , had filled out as a result of an under-demanding marriage and a sedentary occupation , and would have been a round peg for such a small square hole . |
| 2 | The barbarian had vaulted down into the heather and had drawn the black sword , Kring . |
| 3 | Hence the study had to fall back on a proxy for measures of ill health — standardised mortality ratios ( SMRs ) or death rates from different diseases standardised by age . |
| 4 | In a moment he had jumped on to the horse 's back . |
| 5 | Lorton had jumped up on the gazebo . |
| 6 | Daak had jumped back into the cabin . |
| 7 | He checked , but only momentarily , then he had jumped down onto the track a knife in his hand . |
| 8 | Grimma led the rescue party into the office and listened while Sacco , with many interruptions , recounted the adventure from the time Dorcas , out of sudden terror , had jumped out of the truck and had been carried off the rails just before the train arrived . |
| 9 | Before she could reply he had jumped out of the car to walk up the drive to the hotel . |
| 10 | It would take about an hour and a half to fix and heat up the oven ; and , of course , once it was started we had to carry on with the job of re-tyring . |
| 11 | On erm food and noise , we 're still very , very busy indeed , and our figure for noise inspection is higher than it ever has been before , and the comment that was made under that section will show you that some of that most certainly is the amount of work that the team had to carry out during the summer , one of the benefits of our glorious summer is that most of us slept with our windows fully open for three months or more and one of the dis-benefits was that if anybody else down the road had a party that went beyond normal bed-time , everybody shared that , and our team was very busy in consequence . |
| 12 | Everyone crowded in and Maria had to sit up on the ledge of the window to be seen and heard . |
| 13 | He had to sit out in the corridor at Windsor listening to Electrophone transmissions of some opera that went on and on before the warblers saw fit to die with some interminable aria . |
| 14 | When she got to the top of the staircase and Mr Browning had gone back inside his apartment , she suddenly felt so ill she had to sit down on the stone step and compose herself before going on . |
| 15 | She had to sit down on the ground . |
| 16 | Dosh — I was pretty sure it was Dosh — and I danced some and she finished off the Kümmel , which meant we then had to sit down for a while near the window , where some scatter cushions had been laid . |
| 17 | so we had to sit down for a while . |
| 18 | Born in Cuba to a German-Jewish father and a black mother — ‘ I was sort of kosher , but swinging ’ — he cut sugar-cane in his youth before joining his father , a ship 's steward , on his travels , only to be accidentally left behind on Crete at 12 : ‘ I had to sit down for a minute — almost cried . ’ |
| 19 | Not just Giles 's spite-filled revenge , but the expression in Nathan Bryce 's eyes as he had gazed down from the dais . |
| 20 | Snatching an old raincoat from the hallstand she had plunged out into the rain . |
| 21 | The attendant , now adding a sulk to his sullenness , had shuffled off to the kitchen area . |
| 22 | As they had stumbled out of the incident room , new names were already being scribbled up on the action boards with blue marker pens — yet more people to be trawled by the team of detective constables . |
| 23 | It was a day much like today , hot and sunny , but unlike today there were no tourists about and Dave and I had stripped off to the skin and stepped through the shallows with mud squidging between our toes to the pebbly beach , swimming out into the cool water . |
| 24 | He had barely glanced at her , and she had blurted out on the spur of the moment , ‘ Fine . |
| 25 | Writer Brad Darrach , who had flown down for an interview with Hopper , described the scene that developed : ‘ By mid-afternoon , the games became serious . |
| 26 | Lee remembered when a sparrow had flown in through the window of her bedroom when she was a child . |
| 27 | If a piece of metal had flown out of the machine and blinded Brian , the court could hold that the purpose of the statute was to keep the employee out , not the machine in . |
| 28 | Everyone was hungry , but there was no food to be had for it had floated out of the village shop and away . |
| 29 | ‘ I have n't actually met Frank yet ; he was appointed after we had broken up for the summer , ’ said Black . |
| 30 | In the three years since he had broken through as a pop star , Kylie has constructed a network of companies to handle her affairs . |