Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv prt] of [art] " in BNC.

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1 In the opinion of many Bohm had jumped out of an indeterminate frying pan into a crackling non-local fire .
2 Before she could reply he had jumped out of the car to walk up the drive to the hotel .
3 Grimma led the rescue party into the office and listened while Sacco , with many interruptions , recounted the adventure from the time Dorcas , out of sudden terror , had jumped out of the truck and had been carried off the rails just before the train arrived .
4 As they had stumbled out of the incident room , new names were already being scribbled up on the action boards with blue marker pens — yet more people to be trawled by the team of detective constables .
5 If a piece of metal had flown out of the machine and blinded Brian , the court could hold that the purpose of the statute was to keep the employee out , not the machine in .
6 Everyone was hungry , but there was no food to be had for it had floated out of the village shop and away .
7 Attlee 's Labour Party had broken out of the ghetto of solidly working-class support , its 1945 victory being based on the electoral sympathy of a broad section of the middle class .
8 A day later , though , he called Susan to say he had checked out of the hospital .
9 It was not until she noticed a bill on Todney 's desk , to be authorized by Stephen as complimentary , that she knew his half-brother had checked out of the hotel without so much as saying goodbye to her .
10 The rings had spilled out of the tin and lay in the tufty bits of grass like slugs trying to eat their own tails .
11 Passengers ' baggage had spilled out of the hold and burst suitcases , charred books , swimming costumes and tubes of sun tan cream were scattered on the ground .
12 Small pieces of electronic equipment had spilled out of the snake .
13 It was as if she had fallen out of a generous sky .
14 He could always get old Benny Robinson , his helper , to sweep the place up and tie up the piles of cardboard , but Benny had already swept up twice that day and he was now busy sorting out bundles of twine which had fallen out of a damaged carton and become unwound .
15 So she watched , and listened , and fell a little further , and when his bleep went she went back with him to the department and they worked side by side , communicating with a gesture or a word almost in silence , each anticipating the other 's needs as they dealt with a little girl who had fallen out of a tree and broken both arms and one leg .
16 He signed the deal in July 1989 — and by September the bottom had fallen out of the London commercial property market .
17 The bottom had fallen out of the city 's property market and skyscrapers offered for sale at ridiculously low prices could find no buyers .
18 He had sailed to Ninfania from Illyria , in a big double bass of a galleon , with a prow carved like a volute , and it brought him to the shore in the harbour he then designated Ribaris , after the peak where the Ark had come to rest , once all the waters of the flood had drained out of the plughole of divine fury .
19 Suddenly spotting the rear view of the vehicle , he had leaned out of the window , and was using his R/T to contact his base .
20 Sarah , who had leaned out of the window to see the house , sat down again , smiling and blinking at the water drawn into her eyes by the cold and the wind .
21 She had enjoyed Out of the Silent Planet .
22 He stooped to retrieve an ear-ring which had dropped out of a blouse he was holding .
23 They had dropped out of the human chain of ancestors and descendants that had formerly bound them all together .
24 The move is an about-face for Rabobank , which recently announced that it had dropped out of the race for the licence .
25 Both residential preferences and government policy had dropped out of the picture .
26 He had proposed the visit to Burford on 17 May 1968 but had dropped out of the ill-fated return journey .
27 Bertie Ahern , who had dropped out of the leadership contest to assure Reynolds of victory , remained Finance Minister .
28 She wondered why he did n't step across it ; he reminded her of the white mice they had let out of the cage one day .
29 I myself had let out of the sink ,
30 The policeman , who had materialised out of the hedgerow when she approached the churchyard , had had her name written in his notebook .
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