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Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1	By the late 1980s , Ceauşescu 's suspicions and caprices had whittled down the numbers of his long-term favourites .
2	Someone had ripped out the cables — more proof of attention to detail .
3	Then it got flooded because people had ripped out the pipes next door , which was empty too . "
4	If it turned out that Mrs A had gathered up the keys , the , arrest would be unlawful .
5	After the monitor had gathered up the papers and placed them on the small , square , wooden table that acted as the sister 's desk , the class sat quiet , waiting anxiously for the verdict , a tick or a large cross , the while automatically mumbling Hail Marys .
6	They had gathered up the dolls in their arms , some of which were nearly as big as they were .
7	Liz 's gurgle of laughter had floated down the wires .
8	Penelope Houston had pointed out the dangers early on , in the pages of Sight and Sound :
9	By 1939 he had given up the dogs and the main business was credit betting , though he was still operating at Northolt Park .
10	I , I er , o we had to get the ladders we had to go up the ladders did n't we ?
11	He had to go down the mines and he stuck it out .
12	She had sorted out the reins now and Caspar had explained about just touching the horse 's flanks with her heels to spur it to a gallop .
13	As Sir Bryan had predicted , the weather had sorted out the men from the boys and difficult pin placings had not been needed to tame the pros .
14	Disillusioned with the cottage and its problems , he had boarded up the windows and returned to Toronto , meaning eventually to come back and make a final decision about his ill-advised purchase .
15	Armoured men with swords had clanked down the stairwells here ; now the steps were used by gunmen in grubby camouflage fatigues whose rifles lay propped against the walls of the round towers .
16	Lawrence thought his side had let down the fans .
17	Lawrence thought his side had let down the fans .
18	‘ Nevertheless , ’ said Jordan Warrender , one of his senior counsellors who had recently been travelling in Europe , ostensibly on holiday , actually on a tricky diplomatic mission , but who had looked up the Parslows on finding them in Venice , ‘ she is most definitely not with them .
19	I had looked up the directions for the Pan-Am Highway at the hotel .
20	That 's why they had torn down the children 's hospital to make room for the miniature golf course .
21	He had died before she 'd finished university , but she had carried out the plans they had made .
22	Dodman offered to give evidence against another man whom he claimed had carried out the burglaries , but he was unable to do so because of a mental condition and the charges against the other man were dropped .
23	Dodman had offered to give evidence against another man whom he claimed had carried out the burglaries , but he was unable to do so because of a mental condition and the charges against the other man were dropped .
24	The Air Djibouti flight from Addis Ababa had stopped at Dire Dawa but had picked up no passengers .
25	She had picked up the letters from the wire box behind the front door , dropped off her coat on her way across the hall and gone into the kitchen .
26	The men had picked up the sacks and shaken them out .
27	A lift of his hand and then he had picked up the reins and , with a quick dig of his heels , went straight into a canter .
28	He had picked up the pieces after the war and it must have come as a total shock to someone with his background to find players in his side who rocked the boat .
29	In just a few days he had pushed back the horizons of her world far out of sight .
30	At two-twenty Minto 's party appeared , saying that the reason for their delay was that Liddiat , the handyman employed by Minto at The Kilns , had pumped up the tyres of the car so hard that it was impossible to drive at more than fifteen miles per hour .