Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm Foxes in the Garden with the R S P C A photos I had rejected yesterday as well , so that was a good day . |
| 2 | Looking back on it I could not figure out what went wrong as I had done exactly as instructed but nobody had ever really said much about fallen trees or currents and especially not in such a small part of the river . |
| 3 | So , as I say , the Muse of History laughed when Britain , which had risen almost as one man to take the Falklands from the Argentine , then quite logically watched , passive and embarrassed , while the United States occupied the independent sovereign state of Grenada . |
| 4 | She was thinking about a telephone call which she had answered just as she was about to leave the house . |
| 5 | There , for 20 years , she had watched helplessly as that country 's wildlife was systematically hunted to extinction . |
| 6 | Napolitano replaced Scalfaro , who had served briefly as Speaker before his election as President on May 25 . |
| 7 | Boris Gidaspov , the Leningrad city and oblast first secretary who had emerged recently as one of the most prominent party conservatives , said that " complete disorganization of the executive mechanism " was responsible for growing destabilization in the country . |
| 8 | One who had arrived there as the convulsions started was Charlton Heston who achieved almost instant stardom and became especially known for his appearances in the biblical epics . |
| 9 | We walked out and staggered back to our beds , pushing out the dummies we had left there as decoys , using rolled up overcoats and our pyjamas . |
| 10 | It had sounded almost as though the tunnel itself were enjoying some deeper , darker joke whose significance not even his father had fully understood . |
| 11 | Molly 's sleep had been deep and dreamless but she woke up early , saw Hugh unconscious beside her and replaced the sheet he had kicked away as she might cover one of the children . |
| 12 | And he walked away from the manor as though he had arrived there as empty-handed , half-naked and alone as when he left . |
| 13 | He had come here as she guessed he would . |
| 14 | what had happened here as I presumed the telephone lines were down . |