Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Hugh , although able to look like a jeune premier from time to time , had filled out as a result of an under-demanding marriage and a sedentary occupation , and would have been a round peg for such a small square hole . |
| 2 | Mr Nightingale had been a wartime soldier in a fairly respectable regiment ( George 's opinion as an excavalryman ) and while he had filled out to a pink-and-white chubbiness he still wore a small military moustache that had stayed loyally ginger as a reminder of the Desert campaign . |
| 3 | The Acting Reporter from Strathclyde , Gordon Sloan , who had filled in for the past year , would continue to look after the cases with which he had been involved . |
| 4 | The barbarian had vaulted down into the heather and had drawn the black sword , Kring . |
| 5 | The Chinese had dyeing down to a fine art as much as 5,000 years ago , and there are herbs grown today whose names record their colouring ability , such as dyer's-greenweed and dyer's-bugloss . |
| 6 | Hence the study had to fall back on a proxy for measures of ill health — standardised mortality ratios ( SMRs ) or death rates from different diseases standardised by age . |
| 7 | In a moment he had jumped on to the horse 's back . |
| 8 | Lorton had jumped up on the gazebo . |
| 9 | I immediately asked Dennis if he was OK , and pointed out that I thought that the ball had jumped up from a good length . |
| 10 | Daak had jumped back into the cabin . |
| 11 | He checked , but only momentarily , then he had jumped down onto the track a knife in his hand . |
| 12 | In this damp clay I had left footprints , and over these footprints I now found the splayed-out pug marks of the tigress where she had jumped down from the rocks and followed me , until the kakar had seen her and given its alarm-call , whereon the tigress had left the track and entered the bushes where I had seen the movement . |
| 13 | In the opinion of many Bohm had jumped out of an indeterminate frying pan into a crackling non-local fire . |
| 14 | Before she could reply he had jumped out of the car to walk up the drive to the hotel . |
| 15 | Grimma led the rescue party into the office and listened while Sacco , with many interruptions , recounted the adventure from the time Dorcas , out of sudden terror , had jumped out of the truck and had been carried off the rails just before the train arrived . |
| 16 | As soon as Dennis had roared off towards the offices of Osiris Management Services I strolled down Ramillies Drive to the Parsonage and rang the bell . |
| 17 | It would take about an hour and a half to fix and heat up the oven ; and , of course , once it was started we had to carry on with the job of re-tyring . |
| 18 | There were insufficient funds for a third appointment so that Allan Hayhurst had to carry on in an honourary capacity combining once again the offices of Secretary and Treasurer . |
| 19 | On erm food and noise , we 're still very , very busy indeed , and our figure for noise inspection is higher than it ever has been before , and the comment that was made under that section will show you that some of that most certainly is the amount of work that the team had to carry out during the summer , one of the benefits of our glorious summer is that most of us slept with our windows fully open for three months or more and one of the dis-benefits was that if anybody else down the road had a party that went beyond normal bed-time , everybody shared that , and our team was very busy in consequence . |
| 20 | She had run the country for 11 years ; and he had coasted along to a fourth Conservative victory on the back of her achievements . |
| 21 | Everyone crowded in and Maria had to sit up on the ledge of the window to be seen and heard . |
| 22 | He had to sit out in the corridor at Windsor listening to Electrophone transmissions of some opera that went on and on before the warblers saw fit to die with some interminable aria . |
| 23 | When she got to the top of the staircase and Mr Browning had gone back inside his apartment , she suddenly felt so ill she had to sit down on the stone step and compose herself before going on . |
| 24 | She had to sit down on the ground . |
| 25 | Born in Cuba to a German-Jewish father and a black mother — ‘ I was sort of kosher , but swinging ’ — he cut sugar-cane in his youth before joining his father , a ship 's steward , on his travels , only to be accidentally left behind on Crete at 12 : ‘ I had to sit down for a minute — almost cried . ’ |
| 26 | Dosh — I was pretty sure it was Dosh — and I danced some and she finished off the Kümmel , which meant we then had to sit down for a while near the window , where some scatter cushions had been laid . |
| 27 | so we had to sit down for a while . |
| 28 | Not just Giles 's spite-filled revenge , but the expression in Nathan Bryce 's eyes as he had gazed down from the dais . |
| 29 | Snatching an old raincoat from the hallstand she had plunged out into the rain . |
| 30 | The attendant , now adding a sulk to his sullenness , had shuffled off to the kitchen area . |