Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The riders , about a dozen so far , had gathered together in the middle . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Whatever Sauniere had stumbled across in the 1880s , the French author , Gerard de Sede , wrote about it nearly eighty years later . |
| 4 | Truman 's career had developed wholly in the domestic context where he had shown considerable guile and courage . |
| 5 | According to Blackwell , morality involved the evolution of self-consciousness which had developed only in the human species . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | After we had broken fast in the small buttery which adjoined the kitchen , Benjamin dragged me outside to the gardens . |
| 8 | They had stopped briefly in the great sculleries to pack up provisions . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Not a single German bomb had fallen anywhere in the British Isles since war had been declared . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | However , Advani chose to take up another seat , which he had won simultaneously in the state of Gujarat . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He ruled out further help for the legalized opposition parties , saying that they needed time to win supporters , and that was why they had fared badly in the April elections . |
| 18 | Pat Archer , of the county council 's transportation department , said the problem had dropped slightly in the second half of last term . |
| 19 | On 4 April two officers reported the River Spey to be ‘ low and fordable in … many places ’ and by 12 April , after being joined by the forces from Strathbogie , Cumberland 's army reached the river , where the water level had dropped significantly in the preceding few days . |
| 20 | He had to come home in the ambulance , and had a bed downstairs for the daytime , but managed to go upstairs to bed at night . |
| 21 | Denis had sat downstairs in the sitting-room while it was going on , praying fervently to the Child of Prague , or was it to Uncle Mick , to protect his little European wife from all her pain and bring her safely through . |
| 22 | It had been quite crowded , but she had sat quietly in the corner with a drink . |
| 23 | That evening , before dinner , we had sat together in the Clerecia , watching the glib little gilded pendulum of the antique wall-clock wagging away . |
| 24 | After Tammuz and Roirbak had left Acropolis Park for their meeting with Jahsaxa Penumbra , Ari and Leila had sat together in the canteen . |
| 25 | They had looked together in the sheds , behind the dustbins . |
| 26 | President Frederick Chiluba faced a growing crisis when two Cabinet ministers who had resigned earlier in the month took part in launching on July 25 of a new party , the Caucus for National Unity ( CNU ) . |
| 27 | He had come here in the autumn of 1920 . |
| 28 | The first prisoners had come here in the days when the state of war between England and Germany was still largely theoretical . |
| 29 | Donna shivered and decided to head back to the car , not even sure why she had come here in the first place . |
| 30 | But after all , he had come far in the last few months . |