Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | After leaving school he had been unable to settle , had wandered from place to place and had eventually landed up in Borstal , where his crimes had given him a reputation for toughness and ruthlessness which he had felt compelled to live up to ( although at the same time hating it and himself ) . |
| 2 | I felt , by doing that , I had effectively stepped back in time and discovered the one thing that should have been thought of before we even harnessed electricity . |
| 3 | He had a fleeting image of a bar , of the people inside , of someone singing Chris Rea 's : ‘ Joys of Christmas , Northern Style ’ , and then it had all flashed by in less than a second . |
| 4 | They had always been a close family and that night they had all ended up in tears after a lengthy talk with their family GP who had come to the house to talk to them about Jennifer 's diagnosis . |
| 5 | Although nothing was especially valuable , we had all grown up in that house and these things had special associations . |
| 6 | And then back home with Ted and Frieda both asleep and Jo gone , it had all burst up in tears Maggie had squashed down with cigarettes . |
| 7 | The Jarvis family had all come down in the world , considering the money their Victorian grandfather , a manufacturer of bathroom fittings , had made for them , Ernest with the dwindling Cambridge School , Evelina nutty as a squirrel 's cage and with her first sojourn in a nursing home behind her , Cecilia married to a Customs officer . |
| 8 | He was an unhappy personality , who had obviously grown up in the shadow of his father and had decided that the assumption of a totally aggressive demeanour was the only way of maintaining a personality of his own that would be distinct from that of his famous , indeed most famous — parent . |
| 9 | Maxim 's thinking had just begun to catch up with why two armed watchmen — the ones outside his own flat had n't been armed — had suddenly turned up in the service road of Neptune Court . |
| 10 | As Shklovsky had already pointed out in his essay on ‘ Art as technique ’ ( although the implications of his remarks were not fully drawn out until later ) form and order can themselves act as powerful automatizing factors . |
| 11 | The sergeant had already mapped out in his own mind , with an eye to the wind , the speed of the flow and the amount of debris being brought down , the procession of spits , shoals , curves and pools where a heavy piece of flotsam would be likely to cast up , beginning immediately below the village of Moulden , which lay just below the Aurae Phiala enclosure . |
| 12 | He had already blown out in the first two matches yet still went for a practice to give me information on a different stretch for which I was grateful . |
| 13 | In December 1922 he resigned graciously to return to his large goods store which had already started up in June . |
| 14 | They had walked the perimeter his men had already marked out in preparation for the stockade he planned around the new settlement ; the deputies had taken this in , uttering cries among themselves at the tools his men handled . |
| 15 | Handlebar 's mate had meanwhile broken out in a kind of partridge death-wail . |
| 16 | Aug. 2 , the anniversary of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait , was marked by a broadcast by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in which he described the Iraqis as the true victors in the subsequent war , on the grounds that Iraq had not backed down in the face of the enormous odds against it . |
| 17 | His dream had finally run out in an Arabian nightmare of high living and questionable favours . |
| 18 | Charles wondered what new disaster had hit the production , or which of the producer 's dubious deals had just blown up in his face . |
| 19 | In an instant she was aware of every detail of her appearance from the upswept Titian curls , tamed for the meeting that had just broken up in fragmented dissatisfaction among the main body of the directors , to her neat cinnamon gabardine suit and matching high court shoes . |
| 20 | THE fighting had just broken out in Panama City when a group of men dressed in civilian clothes and armed with rifles surrounded the Marriott Hotel and began rounding up guests . |
| 21 | Sandra had just arrived back in time to hear Mrs Foster 's grim assessment of the situation . |
| 22 | He had just sat down in front of the television , beer in one hand , chicken leg in the other , feet on the coffee table , and Sportsnight just started . |
| 23 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 24 | Not a single other EC government had yesterday come out in support of the American President 's decision . |
| 25 | I thought of the most dedicated cricket fanatic I had ever known back in South Africa — a man who despite repeated heart attacks , doctors ' warnings and family entreaties to stop playing the game , had persisted with club cricket to the end , in his sixties diving after slip catches as recklessly as he had in his teens . |
| 26 | Frequently Ruth wondered why he had n't ended up in borstal or some other institution . |
| 27 | He would never have found out if you had n't shown up in the office . |
| 28 | It was a figure in a mask and a jacksuit with all this gear in pockets all over it , and she had a headset , and one for me , one like I would have had on if I had n't taken off in such a hurry , and she had jets , which no Gnat would have been seen dead with . |
| 29 | This was closed three years ago — Peter Craine , Rabbit 's vice president for marketing and sales , explains that the firm then did n't have any national language support for its MS-DOS products ; also , Unix — Rabbit 's favoured environment — had n't taken off in quite the way the firm had expected . |
| 30 | At the bottom end of the educational scale I remember so very clearly the instances — and there were far too many of them for my peace of mind — where the school had virtually given up in the face of difficulties . |