Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The khalifa whom Balvinder had pointed out came up and introduced himself . |
| 2 | He had given up dashing through to adjoining rooms running to look downstairs or above , craning his head out of windows to look for hovering helicopters , but he knew they were there somewhere all right , he knew what they were up to . |
| 3 | This was the Luton Post Office murder , and although , in view of my long labours on the Meehan case , I had resolved not to take up any more cases , this was one that I did not see how I could refuse . |
| 4 | They had dropped in to pick up Bill , who was of necessity going without Faye this year , and the sight of Tom in a black dinner suit and a shirt so white that it was almost ultra-violet had rocked Belinda 's usual state of equilibrium where their friendship was concerned . |
| 5 | By the time Roirbak had reached his workbench and had sat down to ponder over whether he could pay Jahsaxa enough compensation to drop Crevecoeur and why he should want to do that for anyone anyway , Mellissa the receptionist fluted her chimes over his commset . |
| 6 | When she had looked in to clean up the following day the meal was still on the table , untouched . |
| 7 | ‘ You said your name was Millet … you said that you had come here to find out more about our son . ’ |
| 8 | And so perhaps the time had come just to sit down somewhere on the ground and wait . |
| 9 | Two men who had come in to quaff down great glasses of cidre were now returning to their scythes in a field opposite , to join a line of sodden reapers there . |
| 10 | In fact it was his identical twin , whom nobody knew about , and who had come back to tidy up his brother 's affairs . |
| 11 | Or perhaps he had heard rumours of my goings-on , and had come personally to find out ‘ what Kirkup 's up to now ’ — the traditional BC phrase wherever they have the misfortune to discover my presence . |
| 12 | The street seemed to be full of perfume now , wafting around her in the biting wind — the perfume that was the most evocative memory she had of her mother , a haunting perfume , light and teasing and sweet , a perfume that smelled a little like a summer garden at dusk , a perfume , the memory of which had possessed the power to bring tears to her eyes long , long after she had forgotten how to conjure up the image of her mother 's face . |
| 13 | Given their weakened state , the Dutch had done well to hold out for so long . |
| 14 | Tony had decided not to go out with them , as he felt self-conscious about having to borrow money from his father to pay for drinks . |
| 15 | It kept us in harbour until the following afternoon when , we decided it had moderated enough to push on to Tobermory . |
| 16 | All the terrible things she had thought earlier rose up in Pat 's mind . |
| 17 | She later found out that the bosses of the two companies had got together to work out which one of the couple would be the cheapest to sack . |
| 18 | The harsh lights that the photographers had used still glared down on the scene . |
| 19 | Then as if the whole world had hunched over to block out the sun , the sky becomes as black as coal . |
| 20 | I had previously spent about two years asking local social services and friends for help and not having it happen , so my flat had become pretty run down . |
| 21 | I had previously spent about two years asking local social services and friends for help and not having it happen , so my flat had become pretty run down . |
| 22 | They had escaped detection from the air , in spite of the large number of vehicles involved , but had had to abandon the tanks which had become hopelessly bogged down in the sand . |
| 23 | When the Bishops moved into the house 10 years ago , it had been on the market for 18 months and had become very run down . |
| 24 | Britain had exercised tight control over the entry of aliens for as long as anyone could remember and , anyway , there had been little contact between Germany and Britain for at least nine months . |
| 25 | Her life-long friend , Catherine Quinn , 23 , escaped serious injury because she had bent down to pick up a 20p piece , and she was flung over hand railings . |
| 26 | Diniz also had stayed , and had found his way out into the yard , and the broken pillars of the loggia , where he had found somewhere to sit out of the wind . |
| 27 | But as they made their way towards the camp he had spoken only to point out signs of bird and animal life that he thought might interest her ; in the mud at the riverside , he showed her the pug mark of a tiger that had drunk there the previous evening and at another point on the trail he drew her attention to torn-up grasses and leafless trees that marked the passing of a herd of elephant . |
| 28 | Did he seriously believe that she had set out to break up a woman 's marriage ? |
| 29 | With typical American generosity of heart , his mother had set out to make up for his disabilities . |
| 30 | Rose had gone on coming in to help Victorine . |