Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Either he left when he discovered the pregnancy , or he had already gone , or the relationship had broken up in the first year or two after having the baby , when he had been unwilling or unable to settle down and take the responsibility . |
| 2 | The Tokyo stock exchange fell to its lowest level in 3½ years on Sept. 28 on unfounded rumours that war had broken out in the Gulf . |
| 3 | Meanwhile there were also reports on March 12 that unrest had broken out in the Shia districts of Baghdad ( Saddam City and Shuala ) and that curfews had been imposed . |
| 4 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 5 | If the liquid was meant to flow into the chamber from some high point on the hillside and then out to the tank supplying the house , it had given up in the hot weather and was no longer doing so . |
| 6 | He had swivelled round in the armchair and was staring at me irritably . |
| 7 | Adam had fallen over in the playground , hit his head on a bench , been taken to hospital . |
| 8 | If anybody asked , she could say she 'd come back for her shoe that had fallen off in the stumbling mess of wrecked furniture . |
| 9 | They had rolled around in the narrow berth on the unanchored sheet , slipping on the shiny much-worn cheap leatherette surface of the bunk , lurching in and out of one another in a determined kind of way , the only passengers on the boat not to be paralysed with seasickness . |
| 10 | The collar-points of his white shirt had rolled up in the heat . |
| 11 | Are you wishing it was I had rolled under in the waves , not your father 's grandson , because he was hurt while saving your life ? |
| 12 | She had curled up in the deep old window seat , the velvet coverlet from the bed wrapped about her for warmth , and had drifted in and out of an uneasy sleep . |
| 13 | All her hair had dropped out in the night and she was choking on it . ’ |
| 14 | That 's £21.46 more than it would have cost you , if you had dined out in the UK . |
| 15 | By August 1938 she had become a resident of the mental hospital , and Maurice reported to Eliot that she seemed " fairly cheerful , had slept well and eaten well , and had sat out in the garden and read a certain amount . " |
| 16 | Trevor Williamson , an 82nd minute replacement for Stephen McBride , floated in a corner which was knocked down and McMullan , who had come on in the 64th , hammered it into the net . |
| 17 | Innes McInnes was obviously a soup-meat-cheese man from way back , but had come up in the world . |
| 18 | One of Ken 's aunts had come up in the world and arrived at the cemetery wearing a fur coat which was donned purely and simply to impress the other members of the family . |
| 19 | Lucy was involved in a study of cetaceans and had come along in the hope of seeing at least some porpoises . |
| 20 | Both the air force and the army , as well as those who actually served with Leslie , seemed now to presume that the aircraft had come down in the English Channel . |
| 21 | My only other close encounter with a paraglider was finding one grounded in a quagmire in the Arrochar Alps , where the poor man had come down in the wrong glen , leaving him miles to walk back to any road . |
| 22 | A branch of the great plane tree had come down in the wind and as he ran back towards the Cages he saw that it had fallen right across the path where moments before he had been standing . |
| 23 | And still that mystery in the front room continued , reflected Shirley on New Year 's Eve 1979 , as she examined the handsome features of the dangerous Queen of Spades , and wondered if the King had come out in the deal . |
| 24 | I made my way to an hotel lounge in the Diamond , where I sat and read a leaflet I had picked up in the church . |
| 25 | Since a few ladies who had been at the tea would also be at the committee meeting , and , anyway , Boyd had messed up her best black afternoon dress , she wore now a pretty gown in green wool which she had picked up in the last sale at Eaton 's . |
| 26 | This time it was fish and chips which Mrs Wormwood had picked up in the fish and chip shop on her way home from bingo . |
| 27 | He relished hearing the stories that Orton told of masturbatory sessions in public lavatories , of men he had picked up in the street , of having sex in shop doorways , of the sizes of his acquaintances ' organs and of his experiences with venereal disease . |
| 28 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 29 | Such a proposal is now of another era , however , and I was present when an ex-Dean of Academic Studies at the college presented a paper ( Stead 1980 ) attacking the trend to expensive , amalgamated police units which had grown up in the previous two decades . |
| 30 | Only gradually did it dawn on those responsible that vigorous and determined nationalist organizations had grown up in the shadow of the Japanese , that these movements had flourished exceedingly in the vacuum left by the collapse of Japanese power , and that if the colonial regimes were to be reconstituted it could only be by force . |