Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv prt] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had stopped off at home and packed a case for her and then they had stayed to help her settle in . |
| 2 | It had been his mind , not his feet , that had given up at Royston — the mind which foolishly recognized the right of the feet to protest . |
| 3 | Cambridge University lecturer Carl Swann , 36 , had checked in at Amsterdam 's Schiphol airport for a flight to Manchester just before an El Al cargo plane hit a nearby block of flats . |
| 4 | Then , after chewing and swallowing the fragrant morsel , and after a sip of the strong green Longjing ch'a — itself ‘ untasted ’ — he had looked up at Beth Shepherd and smiled broadly , complimenting her on the dish . |
| 5 | Sour old Mr Piggott , who had looked in at St Andrew 's , let fall an ejaculation quite unsuitable to its surroundings , and emerging from the vestry door , crunched purposefully and maliciously upon a piece of coke to relieve his feelings . |
| 6 | He remembered that Sunday morning in '39 , when Wilf Bullingham , the local amateur photographer , had come around at Bert 's request . |
| 7 | It had n't taken her long to clear out her room at the nurses ' home this morning , and her father had come over at lunch to take several boxes of things back to his suburban home for storage . |
| 8 | You knew who was Black if they were a colleague , and who was gay if they had come out at work . |
| 9 | — If he got the answers he expected , that Rhoda had kept William Egan 's money in some hiding place and that Roxie had been looking after her brother 's moneybags , and that all three women had been spending what they were supposed to be hoarding , then he knew what was causing the atmosphere he had picked up at Roxie 's house . |
| 10 | We met in Bologna and while discussing the painting I informed him that the original had turned up at Wildenstein 's in New York , and had recently been sold to a New York private collector and that an article of mine was in proof , publishing the New York picture as the original . |
| 11 | The couple had turned up at Gatwick airport to discover that Mark , who is blind , had packed their bank books instead of passports . |
| 12 | They had never been able to like Sean Walsh , not since the very first day he had turned up at Benny 's tenth birthday party . |
| 13 | On Monday morning Doone had turned up at Shellerton House with the plank . |
| 14 | Behind the gothic-arch pigeon hole , counting out change , she saw the man in boots , the man who had hung about at Faith 's funeral . |
| 15 | And yet when she had peered down at Scathach 's body she had looked through leaves , through summer . |
| 16 | Similarly with Abdullah Muhammad : he had married Salha 's granddaughter ; another sister had married Salha 's grandson ; and yet another sister was mother of another of the girls who had stayed on at school . |
| 17 | When she thought of the baths she had wallowed in at home , the scented soaps and thick towels , the perfumes and the lotions , she wanted to cry . |
| 18 | They had arrived back at camp before breakfast and when he greeted his mother , Joseph had wondered with a sudden stab of alarm if she could tell . |
| 19 | When eventually she had arrived back at Briar Cottage , there had been no concealing her distress from Bess Halidon . |
| 20 | Yesterday 's explosion occurred soon after an express train from the northern city of Jammu had pulled up at Sealdah , Mr Biswas said . |
| 21 | Tony began in midfield , where his creative skills were a considerable asset but , by the end of his first full season with The Eagles , 1985–86 , he had settled in at right-back . |
| 22 | There were stacks of old art magazines , a broken easel , the white-painted bough which Elise had brought down at Christmas before trimming and hanging it over the inglenook fireplace . |
| 23 | She also admired Matilda who had sworn her to secrecy about the parrot job she had brought off at home , and also the great hair-oil switch which had bleached her father 's hair . |
| 24 | A school of masseurs had set up at number 17 and a rival dance director called Sherman Fisher was working from number 18 . |
| 25 | The revolution at Northampton may have been different but it did have uncanny echoes of what had gone on at Neath . |
| 26 | The two men had gone out at dawn each morning , and for five consecutive days their huers had run up and down the cliff paths , whistling and signalling with flags and gorse bushes to guide the two fleets to the shoals ; and while everyone in Polruan had confidently expected Sam Gristy to win hands down , it now looked as though Harry had the edge . |
| 27 | He had started out at night to visit friends in Yorkshire , 150 miles away . |
| 28 | Just as he had with Ann , Tommy had taken over at Christopher 's . |
| 29 | ‘ You have to wonder how some of the big names would have coped if they had taken over at Tranmere — or at this place four years ago . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You draw good pictures , ’ said the boy , turning over the pages of the note-book till he came to the whole page drawing of a pheasant , the cock pheasant that Philip had coloured in at home . |