Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , during its mad dash his plunging horse had burst through some bushes and disturbed a she-bear with her cubs , but had gone on before the bear could react . |
| 2 | ‘ Svend was watching television and nursing his broken heart , trying to work out how he could go back home without losing face , when he was forced to realise the amount of trouble and disruption he and his erstwhile girlfriend had caused on all fronts ! ’ |
| 3 | In fact , by 1988 General Electric had reorganized into fewer key businesses in order to overcome this problem , and in so doing had become more like a conglomerate . |
| 4 | The Left Book Club had appealed to such people . |
| 5 | The car had stopped at some traffic lights . |
| 6 | Even the family car had come from some Church-loan scheme . |
| 7 | In view of the subsequent interaction between the Brigham Young and Utah University groups , with accusations from some Utah administrators and from Pons that Jones had stolen ideas from them , it is important to ask where the BYU programme had reached by this stage . |
| 8 | Miss Abbott , when you came to my house the other day and wandered round my studio and let me see something of your thoughts , it was as if a gale had blown through all the dust and cobwebs , all the mouldering old habits that were growing up round me like ivy , and when you had gone , I tore that canvas off the easel and smashed it — ’ |
| 9 | An atmosphere of fear had descended with many witnesses too afraid to come forward , she added . |
| 10 | ‘ I arrived at work one Monday to find the roof had collapsed following some heavy rain , ’ she explained . |
| 11 | The stranger had arrived in this world . |
| 12 | Love had blossomed , the journalist had written without much originality , among the dreaming spires . |
| 13 | Now the light had faded from those eyes , and her complexion was sallow . |
| 14 | Too much momentum had gathered behind several of the major reform proposals for them to be abandoned , but the final legislation reflected the government 's intense concern that the new freedom should be carefully circumscribed . |
| 15 | When the psychiatrist Jack Dominian wrote his influential book on marital breakdown in 1968 , that figure had soared to some 30,000 divorces every year . |
| 16 | The wind had freshened by this time and was causing some choppy waves , so we pressed on to try and finish the circuit planned before counting became impossible . |
| 17 | There had never been a hint of any romance between them , although their friendship had deepened with each meeting . |
| 18 | Dot had lived like this for ever . |
| 19 | An air of hesitancy had prevailed for most of the day as the City waited nervously for the Budget . |
| 20 | The bad weather and shortage of building work had led to this unseasonal appearance , the morris traditionally being performed at Whitsun . |
| 21 | The coach had gone on another job . |
| 22 | It was claimed that most Hungarian citizens were either not informed of how to purchase the shares or could not afford to do so , and that the bulk of the issue had gone to former party bosses or to foreign institutions . |
| 23 | One example , however , came to symbolize the shift which a growing awareness of the nuclear issue had brought to this part of Somerset . |
| 24 | Fund raising for the state-of-the-art machine began in 1987 and senior technician Peter Barton said help had come from several organisations including the WRVS , the Guides and the League of Friends . |
| 25 | as if to match the tense atmosphere inside the car , the sun had disappeared behind some ominously black clouds that had crept over the horizon . |
| 26 | The Editor had asked for some more films to add to my list to show to your fish . |
| 27 | The workhouse visitors , who functioned as a house committee , had noted that the supply of water to the workhouse had failed on several occasions , and they expressed the hope that an adequate supply would be forthcoming quickly , ‘ which would enable each person to have a fresh quantity for his or her bath ’ . |
| 28 | It upset him , as much as it would have upset his wife , to know that the boy had eavesdropped on this most intimate family moment . |
| 29 | The boy had scoffed at this but Farag had told him to wait and see . |
| 30 | Indeed , recently a journalist from The Lady had hinted at some connection between the heroine and Lily . |