Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv prt] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Meanwhile there were also reports on March 12 that unrest had broken out in the Shia districts of Baghdad ( Saddam City and Shuala ) and that curfews had been imposed . |
| 3 | The Tokyo stock exchange fell to its lowest level in 3½ years on Sept. 28 on unfounded rumours that war had broken out in the Gulf . |
| 4 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 5 | had to go out in the road ! |
| 6 | A teacher , again in a Southall primary school , told of an ‘ amusing ’ incident when an Indian girl of ten was reduced to tears when she had to go out in the sun in the summer term . |
| 7 | He had to go back in the end because there was no one else to put her to bed , but he hated touching her . ’ |
| 8 | But I felt guilty about her being in a Home … she just had to go in in the end — and I know it 's the best place , it 's safe and she has company all the time … ’ |
| 9 | He had swivelled round in the armchair and was staring at me irritably . |
| 10 | Adam had fallen over in the playground , hit his head on a bench , been taken to hospital . |
| 11 | The collar-points of his white shirt had rolled up in the heat . |
| 12 | Are you wishing it was I had rolled under in the waves , not your father 's grandson , because he was hurt while saving your life ? |
| 13 | All her hair had dropped out in the night and she was choking on it . ’ |
| 14 | That 's £21.46 more than it would have cost you , if you had dined out in the UK . |
| 15 | By August 1938 she had become a resident of the mental hospital , and Maurice reported to Eliot that she seemed " fairly cheerful , had slept well and eaten well , and had sat out in the garden and read a certain amount . " |
| 16 | As the battering wind seized them they had to stoop along in the darkness , fighting for handholds , first the base of the old pulley , then the mast . |
| 17 | Innes McInnes was obviously a soup-meat-cheese man from way back , but had come up in the world . |
| 18 | One of Ken 's aunts had come up in the world and arrived at the cemetery wearing a fur coat which was donned purely and simply to impress the other members of the family . |
| 19 | Lucy was involved in a study of cetaceans and had come along in the hope of seeing at least some porpoises . |
| 20 | Both the air force and the army , as well as those who actually served with Leslie , seemed now to presume that the aircraft had come down in the English Channel . |
| 21 | A branch of the great plane tree had come down in the wind and as he ran back towards the Cages he saw that it had fallen right across the path where moments before he had been standing . |
| 22 | And still that mystery in the front room continued , reflected Shirley on New Year 's Eve 1979 , as she examined the handsome features of the dangerous Queen of Spades , and wondered if the King had come out in the deal . |
| 23 | She had to stand up in the midst of a certain amount of pomp and ceremony and address a large audience , which included her own family , her husband , the Prime Minister , the Lord Mayor and a host of City dignitaries , many of them accomplished public speakers themselves . |
| 24 | I made my way to an hotel lounge in the Diamond , where I sat and read a leaflet I had picked up in the church . |
| 25 | This time it was fish and chips which Mrs Wormwood had picked up in the fish and chip shop on her way home from bingo . |
| 26 | He relished hearing the stories that Orton told of masturbatory sessions in public lavatories , of men he had picked up in the street , of having sex in shop doorways , of the sizes of his acquaintances ' organs and of his experiences with venereal disease . |
| 27 | Out of habit the Brigadier treated everybody as though they were local National Service boys who had grown up in the village and so knew every blade of grass as well as he did but who might be a bit hazy about certain family backgrounds and about things that had happened before their time . |
| 28 | Cara had grown up in the country too of course , but would n't walk anywhere if she could avoid it . |
| 29 | There had grown up in the Commandos a tradition that to be a tough regiment it was necessary to act tough all the time in the barracks and on leave , and they were liable to be badly dressed , ill disciplined and noisy in the streets and restaurants of Cairo . |
| 30 | The intellectual and emotional leader of that original collective was Fred Newman , a Korean war veteran , who had grown up in the Bronx , held a PhD in the philosophy of science from Stanford and abruptly turned to Marxism in the mid-1960s . |