Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to sit out in the corridor at Windsor listening to Electrophone transmissions of some opera that went on and on before the warblers saw fit to die with some interminable aria . |
| 2 | The riders , about a dozen so far , had gathered together in the middle . |
| 3 | But for three hours singers , orchestra and audience ( many of the latter stading ) had to wait impatiently in the overheated atmosphere until the opera should begin . |
| 4 | Whatever Sauniere had stumbled across in the 1880s , the French author , Gerard de Sede , wrote about it nearly eighty years later . |
| 5 | Truman 's career had developed wholly in the domestic context where he had shown considerable guile and courage . |
| 6 | According to Blackwell , morality involved the evolution of self-consciousness which had developed only in the human species . |
| 7 | Mr Wood noted that the taste for English watercolours had developed considerably in the US over the last ten years through the support of the Paul Mellon Foundation as well as the efforts of dealers like himself . |
| 8 | Either he left when he discovered the pregnancy , or he had already gone , or the relationship had broken up in the first year or two after having the baby , when he had been unwilling or unable to settle down and take the responsibility . |
| 9 | After we had broken fast in the small buttery which adjoined the kitchen , Benjamin dragged me outside to the gardens . |
| 10 | The Tokyo stock exchange fell to its lowest level in 3½ years on Sept. 28 on unfounded rumours that war had broken out in the Gulf . |
| 11 | Meanwhile there were also reports on March 12 that unrest had broken out in the Shia districts of Baghdad ( Saddam City and Shuala ) and that curfews had been imposed . |
| 12 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 13 | They had stopped briefly in the great sculleries to pack up provisions . |
| 14 | If the liquid was meant to flow into the chamber from some high point on the hillside and then out to the tank supplying the house , it had given up in the hot weather and was no longer doing so . |
| 15 | A teacher , again in a Southall primary school , told of an ‘ amusing ’ incident when an Indian girl of ten was reduced to tears when she had to go out in the sun in the summer term . |
| 16 | had to go out in the road ! |
| 17 | He had to go back in the end because there was no one else to put her to bed , but he hated touching her . ’ |
| 18 | But I felt guilty about her being in a Home … she just had to go in in the end — and I know it 's the best place , it 's safe and she has company all the time … ’ |
| 19 | He had swivelled round in the armchair and was staring at me irritably . |
| 20 | Adam had fallen over in the playground , hit his head on a bench , been taken to hospital . |
| 21 | Nor had the problems begun only at that time : the Bank for International Settlements had already warned that net bank lending had fallen steeply in the second quarter of the year , from $90,000 million to $65,000 million , while the amount raised in the world securities markets had shrunk from $44,000 million to $25,000 million . |
| 22 | Not a single German bomb had fallen anywhere in the British Isles since war had been declared . |
| 23 | If anybody asked , she could say she 'd come back for her shoe that had fallen off in the stumbling mess of wrecked furniture . |
| 24 | A long list of criteria was trundled out to justify the eminent reasonableness of their wage claims : their members had fallen behind in the league table of wage differentials ; the cost of living had increased ; productivity had risen ; firms ' profits were high and their members were entitled to their ‘ fair ’ share . |
| 25 | Runcorn had fallen behind in the 19th minute but were unlucky to go in only level at the break through Steve Shaughnessy 's brilliantly taken equaliser - a flashing near post header from a cross by right back Jamie Bates . |
| 26 | Political leaders from across the assembly had resolved earlier in the week that an apparent lacuna in the rulebook which gave the neo-fascists the chairmanship and vice-chairmanship of the delegations should be filled so that the pair could be voted out of their posts . |
| 27 | A Radio Rwanda bulletin on March 6 said that rebels had attacked twice in the northern Ruhengeri prefecture in the previous two days , suffering some 250 dead and " hundreds " wounded . |
| 28 | However , Advani chose to take up another seat , which he had won simultaneously in the state of Gujarat . |
| 29 | She had built up a good little business in the indoor market-hall and now she and George had amassed enough in the bank to set up on a farm of their own . |
| 30 | They had rolled around in the narrow berth on the unanchored sheet , slipping on the shiny much-worn cheap leatherette surface of the bunk , lurching in and out of one another in a determined kind of way , the only passengers on the boat not to be paralysed with seasickness . |