Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speed had dropped back and Wallace moved upwards in the second half . |
| 2 | Her daughter-in-law was forced to chat on brightly to Greg about whether the sponge had turned out well , and whether Greg liked ginger nuts . |
| 3 | Late in March Mahmoud showed up for the first time since the Yanks had moved out . |
| 4 | Quigley had sat there while the good people from the Mutual Life provident Association had come round and told my mum the news about her death benefit . |
| 5 | Although the countries of the European Free Trade Association had worked out trade arrangements with the Community , recent decisions of the European Court ruled them to be incompatible with the treaty of Rome . |
| 6 | as if her thinking had conjured up her sister , the door opened again and Jessie came in , saying in a low voice , ‘ Mother 's in a pet . |
| 7 | Her skirt had ridden up and she clung to his shoulders convulsively as she yielded to the sweet torment of his long fingers stroking over her thighs . |
| 8 | To begin with , the vets had to wait until a horse had broken down , and then sift through their collection of its graphs to see if and when they could first detect a change . |
| 9 | Previously the authors had carried out research on paraprofessional social service personnel in their own two countries — Israel and the USA ( Brawley and Schindler , 1972 ; Brawley , 1975 ; Schindler , 1980 ; 1982 ) . |
| 10 | The Detective-Sergeant 's keen ears had picked up the dripping tap in the bathroom . |
| 11 | By 1819 , if Shelley is to be taken as a reliable guide , Wordsworth 's stock had gone down and down : ‘ He was at first sublime , pathetic , impressive , profound ; then dull ; then prosy and dull ; and now dull — oh so very dull ! it is an ultra-legitimate dulness ’ ( Dedication to Peter Bell the Third ) . |
| 12 | The fire brigade had to bring in their rescue boat normally used on the Thames to ferry 60 stranded people while the local council issued sandbags to those still hoping to keep the water at bay . |
| 13 | Meanwhile Linton had got up from his armchair and gone out to join Cathy and Hareton . |
| 14 | US officials reportedly expressed concerns that the Soviet side had drawn back from previously agreed elements of the START treaty , and that at the same time it appeared to be adopting a less conciliatory stance on other arms control and disarmament issues , such as the ceiling on troops in Central Europe and the outline of an " Open Skies " treaty agreed in February [ ibid . ] . |
| 15 | Umpire Frank Lee called him on 11 occasions for throwing in England 's only innings and , after the home side had wrapped up the game early , he was again called , in the exhibition match which followed , by the other umpire , Syd Buller , and was forced to complete his only over underarm . |
| 16 | Lawrence thought his side had let down the fans . |
| 17 | Lawrence thought his side had let down the fans . |
| 18 | The Gnomes had gone to considerable trouble ; Culdub and Bith had sat up long hours and consulted books and chronicles and there had been much burning of late candles and worried scurryings to and fro between the Gnomes ' houses in the little mountain village . |
| 19 | He 'd opened the envelope and a piece of white card had slid out . |
| 20 | The enemy artillery had opened up , lobbing heated roundshot on to the ice , smashing it into a multitude of floes , upon which men perched perilously for a time before toppling off into the lake . |
| 21 | The silent watcher stared through the darkness at the place where Corbett had settled down to sleep . |
| 22 | But we stuck with the same tune that Wally had come up with . |
| 23 | But then the sound of the church bells had lifted him , flooded him with a glorious , fierce determination , and his aching legs had flown along , pumped by some extra force , some last strength that he had never tapped before . |
| 24 | Jinkwa had wheeled about and was now coming back over to them . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Tammuz had turned around from his workstation . |
| 27 | Somehow I was in the boat , and Neil had cast off and was edging her out from the jetty . |
| 28 | I could also see the rock that Neil had pointed out to me , still half out of water . |
| 29 | Matey had gone out , not to return until late at night , leaving Dr Neil 's tea in the larder on a plate carefully positioned under a fine gauze hood to protect it from the ubiquitous flies ; he had said not to leave him supper , for he might visit the local evening market where prepared food of all kinds was on sale , from oysters to whelks ; he was partial to shellfish , he said . |
| 30 | The Rose-Noelle was well-equipped as Mr Glennie had set off to start a new life cruising the South Pacific . |