Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the late 1980s , Ceauşescu 's suspicions and caprices had whittled down the numbers of his long-term favourites . |
| 2 | Someone had ripped out the cables — more proof of attention to detail . |
| 3 | Then it got flooded because people had ripped out the pipes next door , which was empty too . " |
| 4 | If it turned out that Mrs A had gathered up the keys , the , arrest would be unlawful . |
| 5 | After the monitor had gathered up the papers and placed them on the small , square , wooden table that acted as the sister 's desk , the class sat quiet , waiting anxiously for the verdict , a tick or a large cross , the while automatically mumbling Hail Marys . |
| 6 | They had gathered up the dolls in their arms , some of which were nearly as big as they were . |
| 7 | She had witnessed both the joys and the stresses with her own parents , the late actor , Tony Sharp and actress mother , Margaret Wedlake . |
| 8 | Liz 's gurgle of laughter had floated down the wires . |
| 9 | Penelope Houston had pointed out the dangers early on , in the pages of Sight and Sound : |
| 10 | By 1939 he had given up the dogs and the main business was credit betting , though he was still operating at Northolt Park . |
| 11 | I , I er , o we had to get the ladders we had to go up the ladders did n't we ? |
| 12 | He had to go down the mines and he stuck it out . |
| 13 | She had sorted out the reins now and Caspar had explained about just touching the horse 's flanks with her heels to spur it to a gallop . |
| 14 | As Sir Bryan had predicted , the weather had sorted out the men from the boys and difficult pin placings had not been needed to tame the pros . |
| 15 | Disillusioned with the cottage and its problems , he had boarded up the windows and returned to Toronto , meaning eventually to come back and make a final decision about his ill-advised purchase . |
| 16 | Armoured men with swords had clanked down the stairwells here ; now the steps were used by gunmen in grubby camouflage fatigues whose rifles lay propped against the walls of the round towers . |
| 17 | Lawrence thought his side had let down the fans . |
| 18 | Lawrence thought his side had let down the fans . |
| 19 | ‘ Nevertheless , ’ said Jordan Warrender , one of his senior counsellors who had recently been travelling in Europe , ostensibly on holiday , actually on a tricky diplomatic mission , but who had looked up the Parslows on finding them in Venice , ‘ she is most definitely not with them . |
| 20 | I had looked up the directions for the Pan-Am Highway at the hotel . |
| 21 | That 's why they had torn down the children 's hospital to make room for the miniature golf course . |
| 22 | He had died before she 'd finished university , but she had carried out the plans they had made . |
| 23 | Dodman offered to give evidence against another man whom he claimed had carried out the burglaries , but he was unable to do so because of a mental condition and the charges against the other man were dropped . |
| 24 | Dodman had offered to give evidence against another man whom he claimed had carried out the burglaries , but he was unable to do so because of a mental condition and the charges against the other man were dropped . |
| 25 | The Air Djibouti flight from Addis Ababa had stopped at Dire Dawa but had picked up no passengers . |
| 26 | She had picked up the letters from the wire box behind the front door , dropped off her coat on her way across the hall and gone into the kitchen . |
| 27 | The men had picked up the sacks and shaken them out . |
| 28 | A lift of his hand and then he had picked up the reins and , with a quick dig of his heels , went straight into a canter . |
| 29 | He had picked up the pieces after the war and it must have come as a total shock to someone with his background to find players in his side who rocked the boat . |
| 30 | In just a few days he had pushed back the horizons of her world far out of sight . |