Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] one [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | That sudden movement , slight as it was , jerked away the stone which Chignell had placed behind one of the wheels . |
2 | The wire had cut so deeply , it had ripped off one of its legs and badly damaged another . |
3 | In his later years Pritchard lived in a house called Eyton Turret in Eyton-on-Severn , Shropshire , which he had formed from one of a pair of Jacobean garden buildings in the former grounds of a demolished mansion . |
4 | A crowd had gathered around one of the piers , where Marlon Brando and Lee J. Cobb were tearing chunks out of each other with docker 's hooks . |
5 | The true explanation is utterly different , and it had to wait for one of the most revolutionary thinkers of all time , Charles Darwin . |
6 | But sometimes these hiding places were found ; and I think that Ann and I had stumbled into one of these hiding places , where the women and children had lain , trembling with fear , listening to the sound of their approaching persecutors . |
7 | With the enthusiasm of a boy I thought I had stumbled across one of the great masterpieces of English writing . |
8 | An active guerrilla leader since the early 1960s , he had been a founder member in April 1966 of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ) , which had developed into one of the most durable guerrilla groups on the sub-continent , maintaining an estimated 60 fronts across the country and a force of 4,000-6,000 . |
9 | She had been more than a little taken aback by his unexpected appearance in the area and also somewhat intrigued , though she had heard from one of the carmen who frequented the cafe that the young man had recently married . |
10 | Had a nice letter from one of the Romanian boys you met very concerned about my job position — he had heard from one of the others who 'd been in London in the summer and saw |
11 | Anyway , I came to this old cemetery and against one wall was this kind of beehive grave affair and someone had broken into one of the graves and pulled out this baby 's coffin and smashed it open . |
12 | He could hardly stand , he had to cling to one of the arms that helped him up . |
13 | On Sept. 27 Ceausescu was released from custody for 90 days to undergo medical treatment for chronic cirrhosis of the liver ( a condition reportedly complicated by a stab wound he had received from one of the revolutionary mob moments after his Dec. 22 television appearance ) . |
14 | The radial Spanish trunk network had to contend with one of the most difficult geographies in Europe , which means that most routes from Madrid to the coast have to cross at least one mountain range , while in Britain the major centres are connected across relatively easy terrain . |
15 | If I er , if I we had to go in one of them |
16 | And there was a picture who had fallen off one of the lorries in Bosnia erm one of the refugee lorries and was running along trying to catch up with her parents . |
17 | Responsibility for disposing of this fleet , which Boeing employees had nicknamed ‘ The Aluminium Cloud ’ , had fallen to one of the company 's most experienced salesmen , R.Q Wilson — a tall , cadaverous man whose Brooks Brothers suits , and the ostentatious flashes of gold at his wrist , cuff and spectacle-rims actually belied a distinctly English politesse and gentility . |
18 | Scathach slung the clothing he had looted across one of the horses which still paced nervously in the enclosure . |
19 | Crocheted antimacassars graced the backs of all the chairs although it was many years since a gentleman with pomade on his hair had sat in one of them . |
20 | For the first time in her life , Louisa had come into one of the dwellings of the Coketown Hands ; for the first time in her life , she was face to face with anything like individuality in connection with them . |
21 | But by then , the show-down had come from one of support for the clergyman to one of outright resistance to the regime . |
22 | I had the impression — fleeting , I grant you — that the photo had come from one of the pockets . |
23 | That would have set them a puzzle , would n't it , if the fibres had come from one of them ? ’ |
24 | Although interest rates and inflation were both falling , Britain had to struggle through one of the worst recessions since the war . |
25 | The Seychelles kestrel had so far eluded me , but I met an English birder while I was trying again to photograph waders in the harbour of Victoria , and he told me a pair had nested in one of the church towers in the town . |
26 | We had chanced across one of the best-kept secrets of the Rockies , the danger from bears . |
27 | Clark had chanced upon one of the abiding ironies of the century : that this most stridently liberal of times manages to be the most illiberal in its insistence that things should be ‘ genuine ’ . |
28 | A first-night mishap had turned into one of the funniest sketches in the whole show . |
29 | His wavy black hair curled behind his ears so thickly that she was reminded of an Ingres portrait of a nobleman she had seen in one of Miss Hatherby 's books . |
30 | The village of Markham cum Cumbermound had grown on one of the rare patches of clay with which the fens were dotted . |