Example sentences of "had [verb] [coord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could only tell me that Wesley 's father had left home when he was about six years old , that his mother had remarried and the boy now lived with her and his stepfather . |
| 2 | Production even on the smallest holdings had trebled and the work load had soared . |
| 3 | Two generations later the population had trebled and the pall of industrial smoke had become permanent . |
| 4 | A few years later he discovered , to his fury , that the painters ' prices had soared and the paintings that he despised would have been immensely valuable . |
| 5 | Someone had fainted and a woman was loosening his shirt and running water over his head . |
| 6 | Michael Young ( now Lord Young of Dartington ) published The Rise of the Meritocracy , a sparkling and satirical commentary on the ways in which secondary schools had developed and the futures to which they pointed . |
| 7 | Suddenly , here , on the windswept rock , after the battle , she experienced certainty and settling , as if the clouds had parted and the sun had illuminated her . |
| 8 | By early 1989 over 230 parties had registered and a total of 93 parties contested the May 1990 elections . |
| 9 | It said , In this house ( and the ceramic of the plaque had broken and the name was missing ) stayed on his first visit to the city , and it was here that he wrote the opening pages of his greatest work . |
| 10 | The rain had stopped and the air was filled with the sweet smell of freshly washed earth . |
| 11 | When they left , the rain had stopped and the clouds had cleared . |
| 12 | ‘ You be careful , my dad 's a vicar ! ’ and the car had stopped and the man had sworn at him viciously , using some phrases Luke later regretted not remembering , and Luke found himself shaking on the dark verge a mile out of Snead . |
| 13 | Suddenly the car had stopped and the gunman had got out and started firing . |
| 14 | The rain had stopped and the sky was a tumult of grey clouds through which the moon , now almost full , reeled like a pale demented ghost . |
| 15 | Time had stopped and the house had become cold . |
| 16 | The ship deviated from the agreed voyage and arrived about 10 days late and in the meantime the price of sugar had fallen and the merchants lost over £4,000 . |
| 17 | The Fives Courts had fallen and the Gymnasium had risen , to the design of Dex Harrison , who had inserted the new Sixth Form Rooms into the front of the School . |
| 18 | Once night had fallen and the manor was quiet , he rose , took out his parchment and again began to fit the puzzle together . |
| 19 | Night had fallen and the pupils of the academy were all in bed . |
| 20 | My hosts shuffled their feet and the meal was unusually silent but , when darkness had fallen and the candles on the table threw huge , black shadows against the wall , Ralemberg filled my glass to the brim , went back to his own chair and nodded at his wife . |
| 21 | The intensity of factional dispute had vanished but the Alliance suffered from the weakening of its links with local Labour Parties . |
| 22 | Against the decree of February 1810 , which put the Ebro provinces under direct military rule , the afrancesados and their king protested violently but in vain : the raison d'êAtre of Joseph 's monarchy had vanished and the afrancesado policy was bankrupt . |
| 23 | The helicopter had vanished and the dinghy was much nearer the pilot , who appeared not to be moving . |
| 24 | By 1985 the average had dropped but the spread was narrower , with a few exceptions at the extremes ( the Manchester Evening News with 300,000 and the Darlington Evening Echo with 12,000 ) . |
| 25 | By that time , as Adam said , you would actually have been shocked if the temperature had dropped or a shower of rain fallen . |
| 26 | The light was thicker , the breeze had dropped and the beans were still . |
| 27 | Presumably Meh'Lindi 's previous mission had succeeded and the Director of the Callidus Shrine was inclined to field-test her again … |
| 28 | Yet the darkness in the room had deepened and the water-bottle had cooled . |
| 29 | The man had collapsed and the vessel had carried on running into the water . |
| 30 | A tranquil enough scene , we may say , once the squads of militia had departed and the floods abated . |