Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [verb] [adv prt] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was a cheery old sort , if a shade old-fashioned ( ‘ I am old enough to be your mother , Prime Minister' had gone down rather well ) , and when she finally shuddered to a halt , having gone through at least two red lights , she was rewarded with much applause . |
| 2 | The driver of one of the vehicles told police afterwards that he had seen Mr Adams , who lived in Witney , ahead of him , but Mr Reid said Clarke clearly failed to notice him , even though Mr Adams had switched on both his front and rear bicycle lights . |
| 3 | Juliet had noticed how David had looked up sharply while Miss Rose was talking . |
| 4 | The next day the Prince was leading a small group of businessmen he had brought over from Britain , including Stephen O'Brien , to look at a scheme called the Boston Compact , evidence that the United States had woken up sooner than anyone else to the dilemma of falling educational standards . |
| 5 | It was true that Ted Mosse had turned out not to be too honest , even in his best uniformed days , had run various little corruptions and been found out , but it did not seem the sort of bad behaviour that would have worried most of working-class South London . |
| 6 | Alan stared at the noticeboard on the opposite wall , pretending to read something but seeing nothing but a blur of the leaflets , notes , scraps of ribbon and withered buttonholes which Lucy had pegged up there . |
| 7 | Hamman had stood back then , and held up the tattoo above his right wrist . |
| 8 | Friday had come round so quickly again — such a contrast to her old life when the week had often seemed boringly endless . |
| 9 | Hungary had turned back more than one million people from its borders since October 1991 , when it restricted the conditions of entry into the country . |
| 10 | Hungary had turned back more than one million people from its borders since October 1991 , when it restricted the conditions of entry into the country . |
| 11 | In October 1990 the WEU had come out strongly against a proposal by the EC Council of ( Foreign ) Ministers that the EC 's Treaty of Rome should be amended to incorporate Article 5 of the Brussels Treaty establishing the WEU , so that the EC should effectively control the WEU . |
| 12 | The prosecution argued that the Newleys had driven down together from London ; after the murder , Mrs Newley had driven back in her husband 's car , and parked it near their home ; no doubt she hoped that the trip to Hampshire would never come to light . |
| 13 | Phoebe had not seen Alan since , though Sue had moved back again briefly later that winter , saddened and distressed by Alan 's disaffection . |
| 14 | Ken had to take on more and more gigs to keep the family boat afloat . |
| 15 | Xanthe had cheered up remarkably through being the centre of sympathetic attention , and Filmer was telling Mercer Lorrimore he should sue the railway company for millions of dollars for negligence . |
| 16 | SHAW Branch Manager John Powell had to pay up quicker than he expected after promising his staff an expenses-paid outing if they achieved their Royal Scottish leads target . |
| 17 | Oh , heavens — suppose the subject of Hugh had cropped up today ? |
| 18 | Most mums and dads in Walworth had to get up early . |
| 19 | ‘ But I do n't want to be sharing my life with anyone , gorgeous hunk or not , ’ Shannon had pointed out mildly , managing with an effort not to remind Kelly they 'd been over this ground a hundred times before . |
| 20 | Tina had lived up there with her children when Brian threw her out , but ate downstairs because Cecilia was a good cook and the television was in the drawing room . |
| 21 | Only a couple of days before Maggie had pointed out how the great cathedral dominated the city , like the spines along a dragon 's back , while the other buildings lay in a rough sprawl . |
| 22 | However , Kayley had come round quickly and probably never stopped breathing . |
| 23 | Kaidu had popped up out of nowhere . |
| 24 | It was Monday and Christopher had driven off early . |
| 25 | A further setback for Kampuchea is an unnatural imbalance in the population ; for every seven women there are now only three men since Pol Pot had wiped out practically a whole generation of men . |
| 26 | If it had n't been so hot , if there had been no row the night before , if Dennis had n't passed out , if I 'd fallen asleep , if any of the others had been there , if Karen had come back later , if she 'd gone straight to the pool rather than taken a shower , if any or all of these had been the case , then intercourse would not have occurred . |
| 27 | Barak waited until Laidlaw and Graham had driven off then got into his own car and drove straight to a white , Spanish-styled mansion on the outskirts of the city , overlooking the sea . |
| 28 | Instead Rory had found out only when Ken had had his first story published , and now it was as though they were passing each other travelling in opposite directions ; Ken slowly but surely building up a reputation as a children 's story-teller while his own supposed career as a professional recounter of traveller 's tales sank gradually in the west . |
| 29 | Between his strength and her anger , she and Matthew had pulled up well in the lead of other canoes . |
| 30 | 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 . |