Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the late 1980s , Ceauşescu 's suspicions and caprices had whittled down the numbers of his long-term favourites . |
| 2 | At ten o'clock in the morning a monster had ripped up the countryside , devastation littering its wake . |
| 3 | Periodically the ship had literally sailed up on to the tug , ramming her bows against the stern , and finally the towing hawser had ripped out the capstan to which it was fastened . |
| 4 | Someone had ripped out the cables — more proof of attention to detail . |
| 5 | Then it got flooded because people had ripped out the pipes next door , which was empty too . " |
| 6 | When they had all left and her father , the grave-digger , had filled up the grave , Nigel would be alone . |
| 7 | Always till now that had filled up the moment |
| 8 | Whilst he was gone , Morse turned to the back of The Times and had filled in the whole of the bottom right-hand quarter of the crossword when Lewis returned two minutes later . |
| 9 | and and also not all erm there was reference made to , I ca n't remember which company it was , but somebody , you know , who was th not particularly literate had filled in the book . |
| 10 | Cadfael had been awake and afield more than an hour by then , for want of a quiet mind , and had filled in the time by ranging along the bushy edges of his peasefields and the shore of the mill pond to gather the white blossoms of the blackthorn , just out of the bud and at their best for infusing , to make a gentle purge for the old men in the infirmary , who could no longer take the strenuous exercise that had formerly kept their bodies in good trim . |
| 11 | Anyway , the mosque was one of the many subjects he felt it safest to avoid until he had plucked up the courage to go into one . |
| 12 | Instead , a ‘ position de barrage ’ a well-organised defensive wall was to be erected along the ‘ Line of Resistance ’ that Pétain had traced out the night he took over command . |
| 13 | If it turned out that Mrs A had gathered up the keys , the , arrest would be unlawful . |
| 14 | After the monitor had gathered up the papers and placed them on the small , square , wooden table that acted as the sister 's desk , the class sat quiet , waiting anxiously for the verdict , a tick or a large cross , the while automatically mumbling Hail Marys . |
| 15 | They had gathered up the dolls in their arms , some of which were nearly as big as they were . |
| 16 | To aid his election campaign , Roosevelt had gathered together a body of men and women who became known as his Brain Trust , mostly from the universities . |
| 17 | She had witnessed both the joys and the stresses with her own parents , the late actor , Tony Sharp and actress mother , Margaret Wedlake . |
| 18 | Howells left his station to score the first after 67 minutes , and by the time Teddy Sheringham had tucked away a second from the penalty spot — earned by the sheer stamina of Durie — Spurs could have had a couple more . |
| 19 | Gray , who had tucked away the penalty which set up Quakers ' promotion to the Third Division only a few weeks before , had never managed a club , and by Christmas it was becoming clear that , while a likeable character , he was not in the same class as his predecessor . |
| 20 | Nesting for the first time in the delta since the 16th century , the flamingos had flown up the coast from the southern province of Malaga after finding their traditional nesting ground in the Fuente de Piedra lake had dried up after a prolonged drought . |
| 21 | ‘ She wanted to go to this pop festival at Roskilde in Denmark , ’ Margaret Price had explained tonelessly the evening she 'd arrived on Gina 's doorstep in obvious distress . |
| 22 | Ruth wondered how Maria Luisa had explained away the baby she had conceived with her ‘ jolly good friend ’ . |
| 23 | Liz 's gurgle of laughter had floated down the wires . |
| 24 | It was carved into planes of rugged indifference , though the blue eyes that blazed at Charity were filled with cynical censure that left her in no doubt that he had heard almost every word Mandy had uttered about him . |
| 25 | During a three-day trial , the court had heard how a family argument flared into midnight violence in the hamlet of Aberargie , where the accused had occupied a caravan beside his brother 's cottage . |
| 26 | The court had heard how the raid had been abandoned after a cache of tools and equipment commonly used in bank raids was discovered in a bus shelter . |
| 27 | You see we had heard quite a bit about him — the locals boggle at the way in which he does n't dodge his taxes . |
| 28 | He ran the pub with his wife , an Irish woman who was known as Mrs Nora , and whose reputation along the docks had been assured the day she had broken up a brawl between a huge Turk who had just knifed two men , and a dozen of the wounded men 's shipmates . |
| 29 | Each of the hunt masters had signed their portion of the map , and each hunt had sent a brush — even those that had broken up no fox while she was in their country . |
| 30 | The judge said during the raid Munn stood in front of the counter and the man who had broken down the screen handed him out the £6,460 from the teller 's cash drawers . |