Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturalists had to fall back on their judgement in family grouping ; and some then and since have followed Adanson , a great French contemporary of Linnaeus , in trying to weigh up all characteristics of an organism instead of taking one or a few as crucial . |
| 2 | But always , welcoming Nicholas , she was washed , combed and seemly , and had formed out of her obstinacy , it seemed , a frail steely courage that endured where others succumbed . |
| 3 | When the local doctor , confounded by the sparrow size of his patients , informed the couple that they were to become parents , llya Holovich had dropped her lined and weary face to her chest and wept , and Stepan Holovich had jumped up from his chair and then scratched between his thin grey hair and laughed . |
| 4 | Er , you know , well of course they were young girls and er , you see and there 's , there was nothing we could do , you see , and , and er , anyway the doctor , as soon as the doctor did come , it was because th the young staff er they had to , they took her away to the mortuary , you see and erm then I , I had to carry on with her work and , and do the best I could and mine as well , you see , but of course er the Manager he appointed another Assistant Manager to go and collect the money which I used to do got it in because I took her times of duty as well and er , you see , and then after that er after several weeks I suppose it was , I do n't know how many because I forget how many , that they appointed me as Manageress and I was in that position for twelve years , you see and |
| 5 | For her to love me , I had to carry on with my secret life . |
| 6 | Who had gazed up at him from his adolescent girlie mags . |
| 7 | So I had to drive out past him , pull over to the other side of the road as much as possible to let him come through and the other cars come through , then I could come . |
| 8 | As I stepped past them Iain had his glasses on and was peering at a diagram the engineer had roughed out in his notepad . |
| 9 | They had stumbled in upon what was quite clearly nothing less than a pagan sacrifice . |
| 10 | Minpins from all over the forest had flown in on their birds to cheer the young hero , and all the branches and twigs of the great tree were crowded with tiny people . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Chapman had flown in from his palatial home on Ibiza and was in his usual itchy , touchy , irritable pre-race state . |
| 12 | In the wake of the F-111s that had flown out from their British bases to bomb targets in Tripoli and Benghazi , Mutual Radio 's correspondent arrived on the scene on 17 April with a laissez passer from the Libyan Consulate in Zurich . |
| 13 | One could n't survive unless one could believe one could , and belief had leaked out of me , gone with sweat and pain and weakness into the wind . |
| 14 | ‘ We can go back to Rose Cottage , always supposing Pook s Common is still where we left it , and I 'll make coffee , ’ she offered , aware that she should contribute to the peace that had broken out between them . |
| 15 | Prickles of sweat had broken out along her backbone . |
| 16 | The previous year fire had broken out on its mate which sank with great loss of life . |
| 17 | His face had turned quite pale and beads of perspiration had broken out across his forehead . |
| 18 | The following morning the room looked as though an expedition had broken out in it , so we fought all the bits back into the sacs , smiled sweetly at the girl on reception and left . |
| 19 | Gary Moore , a born again bluesman who certainly needs no introduction from us , had broken off from his European tour especially to take part in the event . |
| 20 | Not only did her question underline how far communication had broken down between us but also how little either of us was able to meet the other 's needs . |
| 21 | A mechanic contracted to the RAC arrived within an hour , she claimed , but went to help a man who had broken down after her . |
| 22 | Something had broken down in them . |
| 23 | But on the picket line Bob Busby had pointed out to her that the Shadow Scheme was official University business and that she would be strike-breaking if she kept her appointment . |
| 24 | Her mother had pointed out to her that being married to an older man had its advantages . |
| 25 | Mike had managed to smuggle her out of the hotel yesterday evening , but , as he had pointed out to her , it would be impossible to get out of the country at the moment without alerting the Press . |
| 26 | I could also see the rock that Neil had pointed out to me , still half out of water . |
| 27 | Was this the one Franco Miletti had pointed out to his son Ruggiero as an image of the family ? |
| 28 | Back in the bad days , working for the Mason , his reflection in a church window or a bowl of washing water had stared out at him like an evil spirit — all girlish , sheepish , wimpish . |
| 29 | The girl in the mirror was a total contrast to the haunted image which had stared back at her a few hours earlier . |
| 30 | In fact everything that I am not , she thought swiftly , remembering the sickly pale face with its halo of tousled auburn curls , and the huge , startled green eyes that had stared back at her from the bathroom mirror only moments ago . |