Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later Seddon telephoned to tell me that a young man — actually a volunteer from the Metropolitan police — had duly appeared at Southend , and had been remanded for a week . |
| 2 | and erm she had right go at Tessa cos I see them together sometimes . |
| 3 | The reference to the ‘ friend ’ had to do with my association with the Speech Institute , where I was giving a course of lectures on what the Directress , Miss Marjorie Gullan , liked to call ‘ Modernist Poetry ’ ( for it was still considered that ‘ poetry ’ ended with the Georgians , whom we had all studied at school , and that Pound and Eliot were advanced experimenters ) . |
| 4 | On appeal , the Authority stated that the dismissal was not one of redundancy as their requirements for draughtsmen had not ceased , they had only ceased at Orfordness . |
| 5 | You had only to look at holiday romances , she told herself , or shipboard affairs , to know that unfamiliar surroundings and propinquity acted as a hothouse , a forcing ground for unrealistic situations . |
| 6 | She had only to look at Mrs Jebeau 's face to see it ; in fact , she could smell trouble in that direction . |
| 7 | Wales rugby is supposed to be resurgent , so they had better look at things off the pitch as well as on it . ’ |
| 8 | Borrow 's family came from St. Cleer and , he claimed , were gentlefolk who had long lived at Tredinnock and had their own coat of arms . |
| 9 | The segregation of servants from the family had already begun at Coleshill , the ancestor of the Palladian houses of the eighteenth century , where Roger Pratt , who believed that a house should be ‘ so contrived … that the ordinary servants may never publicly appear in passing to and from for their occasions there ’ , had given them separate rooms , adjacent to their masters , so that they no longer slept at his door or at the foot of his bed . |
| 10 | What he had already done at Bec and Caen , he would do at Canterbury : he rebuilt the cathedral church and monastic buildings ; he fought pertinaciously and successfully to defend the ancient properties of the cathedral church against the rapacious invading nobility , who scoured the land for what they could pick up ; he drew up a new code of monastic practice , and he introduced new men who would know how to implement it . |
| 11 | It is presumed that they were then introduced at BMK but it is also recorded that hand loom weaving had already stopped at Burnside in 1881 when second hand power looms rom Crossleys of Halifax were introduced . |
| 12 | The royal yacht Osborne had already docked at Ramsgate and the Prince of Wales was passing Dumpton Gapway , comfortably seated in Mr Multhrop 's new Panhard motorcar . |
| 13 | These had been regular church-goers in the Caribbean but had not felt at home in the more restrained worship of the British churches , and some had felt cold-shouldered by the white members . |
| 14 | The Royal Marines had not landed at Dakar because , without adequate craft for an overwhelming initial assault , any piecemeal landing could have led to prolonged fighting with potential allies . |
| 15 | Ipswich had not played at Roots Hall since the 1950s , although Southend were , in fact , their first opponents in the Football League . |
| 16 | The T'ang had not looked at Fei Yen , and his comment seemed quite innocuous , but she knew how traditional her father-in-law was . |
| 17 | She had not looked at Paviour until then . |
| 18 | She had not looked at Mrs Frizzell 's copy , so this was her first glimpse of it . |
| 19 | It then mentioned the ‘ Habitans in Sicco ’ letter and some comments Street made at a meeting of the Architectural Photographic Association on 15th February when he assumed that the Opposition MPs either had not looked at Scott 's design or that ‘ they misrepresented the facts ’ . |
| 20 | Adimov had not looked at Holly , he was far to the front of the slow-moving line with his cronies , the iron men of the huts . |
| 21 | ‘ Iggy ’ it seems had not settled at Frampton mainly because he did not speak English . |
| 22 | Realist or " realo " Green delegates had not succeeded at Neumünster in ending the separation of party and parliamentary office , nor in electing their supporters to the leadership , Ludger Volmer and Christine Weiske being elected as spokespersons . |
| 23 | He 'd said nothing , but had just stared at Masklin and the Thing . |
| 24 | One had just arrived at ground floor level ; Tom followed two girl clerks into it and pressed the button for the fifteenth floor . |
| 25 | Jenny remembered that the joke had always stopped at Mavis . |
| 26 | On the way down to their holidays in Cornwall his parents had always stopped at Stonehenge for a slow coffee break while he had crossed the road to walk around the stones . |
| 27 | I had always lived at home with my family . |
| 28 | You have to understand that no one but my family had ever lived at Low Birk Hatt before I sold it . |
| 29 | Anthony introduced Comfort , who immediately started talking in fluent , fast Italian , which made Julia feel as inadequate and insular as she had ever done at Comfort 's university parties . |
| 30 | Nothing like it had ever happened at UNACO . |