Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sudden question threw her off balance , literally , and she had to sit back hastily in the chair at Faye 's bedside to regain her physical and mental equilibrium . |
| 2 | Joanna had cheered up considerably by the time Sophie had finished , and Sophie 's spirits were still high as she drove out to visit the old ladies ' home . |
| 3 | They then moved west to a new holding area at Bir Zalten , sixty miles south of the German positions at El Agheila , which had been recced by Mike Sadler who had flown up there during the first week in November . |
| 4 | I had to go down there for the preview and then go down and bid . |
| 5 | But his mind had clouded over again at the wrong moment and now it was too late . |
| 6 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 7 | The Hochhauser Season had come along just at the right time , a time when she needed a little excitement , a little glamour , a little of the old camaraderie that she had known with her friends in Vienna . |
| 8 | ‘ Shush , Mamma , ’ Rosa had said , and then Sabina had come in again with the bird — it would make only a bite to eat . |
| 9 | Chasing him , she had rapidly lost her bearings in the heavy forest terrain and only by accident had come out again behind the house into the vegetable garden . |
| 10 | The sun had come out fully over the abbey mills and the narrow bridge of Meole brook , and in the foregate there was bustle enough . |
| 11 | They had held a site meeting on Thursday and he had turned up instead of the committee chairman they were expecting . |
| 12 | He had been born in Tucupita and had grown up there in the region of Venezuela where the great Paraqua river met the Orinoco and flowed into the Delta of the Orinoco where the sea moved on to Trinidad . |
| 13 | They trembled not from fear , but from anger and resentment which had built up rapidly in the 24 hours since he had heard the ridiculous order from Washington . |
| 14 | Something else had moved out there in the trees , possibly a bird . |
| 15 | The only relatively new thing about it was its romantic and truthful name , which someone in the family had thought up early in the nineteenth century as an improvement on ‘ The Leybourne Arms ’ ; for the Leybourne family had been extinct since the fourteenth century , while salmon regularly did return several miles up-river from this house , and were regularly taken for a mile on either side . |
| 16 | They had stayed up there with the princes until it had become dark , early , of course , in Egypt . |
| 17 | He had joined up as Air Crew , and for several weeks had walked around proudly with the white flash in his cap , denoting that he had been selected for flying . |
| 18 | Between his strength and her anger , she and Matthew had pulled up well in the lead of other canoes . |
| 19 | Peterson commented to Brigham Young University President Holland , generously , on the ‘ remarkable coincidence that such similar research had sprung up independently at the two universities . ’ |
| 20 | By March things had settled down sufficiently for the DCAC to mount a mass demonstration which successfully traversed the original 5 October route — this time without diversions , but this was the last occasion on which the DCAC was able to organise a peaceful mass demonstration . |
| 21 | Looking cautiously out , the intruders found that they had holed up directly opposite the main German headquarters . |
| 22 | She went down the garden with a buoyant step between the neatly trimmed shrubs her uncle had so lovingly planted , past the magnolia , black and wet and knobbly , and through the rose garden the Talbots had laid out together in the manner of an Elizabethan one , formally-shaped beds edged with fat hedges of box . |
| 23 | A radical all his life and a follower of Charles James Fox , he had spoken out strongly in the House of Commons against the declaration of war on Napoleon after his escape from Elba . |
| 24 | Preaching in the church there one day , Mr Clare had spoken out bravely against the well-known wickedness of young d'Urberville , who , after this , had publicly insulted him when they met later . |
| 25 | For the first time in at least three centuries my branch of the Hey family had set up home beyond the Kirkburton parish boundary . |
| 26 | The incendiary charges Manolo 's experts had set up earlier in the day went up on schedule . |
| 27 | Across the road to the butcher 's where they looked in the window to see back at the reflection of Hogan 's Outfitters and realise that Sean Walsh had gone back inside to the empire that would one day be his . |
| 28 | Sukarno made a radio broadcast of sublime meaninglessness : Such rhetoric had gone down well in the past , but now made little impact . |
| 29 | Moran had gone out already into the fields . |
| 30 | Outside the rain , which had taken over again from the snow , fell in grey torrents . |