Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because they had no way of driving out of office the men who ran the executive in their colonies , the colonial assemblies could not assert themselves in the same way as the Westminster Parliament , and had to fall back on using the seventeenth-century approach of saying that there should be redress of grievance before taxes were voted to run the government . |
| 2 | He told police his attacker had broken in by levering beading from a window of his farmhouse . |
| 3 | By about 4.30 am I had given up on trying to sleep so I got up to have a shower . |
| 4 | Humans , robots , cyborgs , androids and aliens : If they were serfs they all had to strip off before going through Arrivals Registration . |
| 5 | It was Sarah , who , on her knees in the mould of the wood , had looked up on hearing Donald 's cries and seen the runaway pram careering down the bank . |
| 6 | Rebecca West , representing the polite world of letters at this proletarian scene of retribution , was being told by an elderly man how he had come back from viewing his grandchildren 's bodies at the public mortuary and heard the voice of the condemned criminal mocking him over the radio . |
| 7 | It was my father , who had come out of hiding because he did n't want to be parted from us . |
| 8 | It was so cold that anything you said had frozen up before leaving your mouth . |
| 9 | She had rung off without asking Greg what his business was . |
| 10 | It was one of a number he had picked up since leaving the charred ruins of Ankh-Morpork . |
| 11 | Twilight had crept out of hiding and was stealthily wrapping the dying day in lavender shrouds , before they stopped at a small trattoria alongside one of the quieter canals . |
| 12 | The sun had set and dusk , like some nocturnal beast , had crept out of hiding and was stealthily licking its paws . |
| 13 | Jed had turned up without knowing what he was going to say , but now he knew . |
| 14 | But to me , who had grown up without knowing want , the prosperity which accrued around them through the fifties and early sixties was of little account . |
| 15 | I had moved on to selling friends ' addresses to the Chief-Corporal , and in return for the names and numbers of two Sloane girlfriends I had got the bed nearest the stove . |
| 16 | Because by this time you had moved on to explaining what you wanted me to do and I think I had missed some essential point . |
| 17 | The older members of staff had moved or retired , and the new headmistress , specifically appointed to enforce the fashionable orthodoxies , had moved in with crusading zeal to smell out and eradicate heresy . |
| 18 | She dealt with his query and recalled how , when she had been going over everything Naylor had said , including his certainty that someone else must be chipping in to pay her mortgage , she had got round to accepting that she just could not afford to go on living where she was . |
| 19 | Somewhat ironically , by August BIT had got round to recommending the Daily Telegraph 's information service as a useful source . |
| 20 | Even then , such is Peter 's Jewish prejudice , the Holy Spirit has to take the initiative in falling upon Cornelius and his company before ever Peter had got round to making any appeal to repentance , faith and baptism ( 10:44f ) . |
| 21 | ‘ If only Elaine had got round to registering the birth ! |
| 22 | Only that when the old mother had unexpectedly died before they had got around to converting the Daye House , they had decided to sell up and go to live in Spain . |
| 23 | When the Royal Bank bought the building in 1825 it had been the Government Office of Excise and quite correctly bore the Royal arms , although no-one had got around to updating them . |
| 24 | But by the time I saw my husband I had chickened out of confessing the price and told him I bought it in a charity shop for 50p — how gullible can husbands be ? |
| 25 | On Oct. 9 , Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka presented to the Sejm ( lower house of parliament ) the socio-economic programme which her government had drawn up since coming to office in July [ see p. 39016-17 ] . |
| 26 | Then he remembered how the policeman had hurried off after leaving him and Louise at the Astoria . |
| 27 | Mr Souness was appointed manager last April , succeeding Mr Kenny Dalglish , his former team-mate at Liverpool , who had walked out after finding the pressures of the job too much . |
| 28 | He had slipped up in using Tweed 's name because it had sounded as though he 'd been one of the casualties . |
| 29 | He waited until the taxi had driven off before crossing the road to the Windorah , a small bar run by Dave Jenkins , an Australian who had named it after his birthplace in Queensland . |
| 30 | He had gone back to calling her Maggie . |