Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By late afternoon , a full-scale battle had broken out with rockets and grenades exploding regularly and bullets thudding into the walls . |
| 2 | Mr Birt said yesterday he had been ‘ enormously heartened ’ by the strong support he had received in from colleagues at the BBC . |
| 3 | Like Sutton , Packford had dropped out of papers as a career . |
| 4 | He opened a second door , which again had an elegant stained glass transom above it , and Belinda found it led to an open veranda that must connect with the one they had sat on for drinks . |
| 5 | At independence , the new governments had looked around for ways of publicizing their activities and seized upon the means to do so . |
| 6 | On his earlier journey across the mountains Giles had looked out for landmarks — a waterfall , an old tree , a small lake . |
| 7 | The idea had arisen for Frank through his location and questions that had come up about muons ; Sakharov had been developing fusion in secret and picked up the notion because he would have been on the lookout for any papers about fusion , of whatever sort . |
| 8 | This had been carried out inside the health department and had come up with findings that were easily predictable . |
| 9 | Because we had people coming into the town that had come out of rooms one and two rooms in Har , in wherever they came from to Harlow and there were so many things that they required for their home that they could n't afford to have big families and pay their way . |
| 10 | The maths teacher hated Maggie too , because one Parents ' Evening Phoebe had turned up in overalls and working boots . |
| 11 | They simply had not realised how well they had done out of changes in Europe 's common agricultural policy . |
| 12 | She was only half-committed to the new idea herself , not nearly as sure about it as she had made out to Nails — heaven knows how they would fit in all that training , teaching three boys to ride ! |
| 13 | It was an attitude she had encountered before admittedly — from people who assumed that because she had grown up in hotels , she had been able to enjoy all the comforts afforded to the customers . |
| 14 | Butler and Stokes argue that the main source of new electoral strength for Labour in 1945 was the mobilisation of manual workers who had grown up in homes without a long tradition of participation in electoral politics . |
| 15 | Bought as a second pony after she had grown out of Buttons , he had proved himself such a marvellous jumper and such a resolute galloper , Artemis could n't possibly imagine life without him . |
| 16 | Stephen Murray had saved up for months to take his wife on the trip . |
| 17 | He said a film of dirt and oil had built up on roads during the long , dry spell . |
| 18 | In that time , its geography had changed little , the only difference being that more and more houses had squeezed themselves on to the mound of detritus that had built up over generations to form the hill on which the city squatted , above the highest level of flood the river could attain . |
| 19 | The prejudices had built up over centuries but had become more accentuated since independence in 1948 . |
| 20 | We reported a couple of years back that just as leading US companies like IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co were adopting Total Quality Management with messianic zeal , the Japanese had decided that it was not good enough and had moved on to Zero-Defects Management , and the Financial Times ' Observer column offers an example of just why : it has a release that flags ‘ the first major conference on Total Quality Management for Pension Finds ’ . |
| 21 | She and Antonietta had begun to talk about fashion and materials and had moved on to curtains when Gennaro returned . |
| 22 | The skulls and one complete skeleton in rotting clothes had leered out of magazines . |
| 23 | She rubbed her face and when she dropped her hands her eyes had welled up with tears . |
| 24 | It was the first time in his life that he had slept out of doors ; as a boy , he and Jean-Paul had often pleaded to do this , and it had always been forbidden . |
| 25 | The police bed was the most comfortable he had slept in for years , and the meal really good . |
| 26 | The one she had slept in for years before moving upstairs this summer to share with Thérèse . |
| 27 | And then back home with Ted and Frieda both asleep and Jo gone , it had all burst up in tears Maggie had squashed down with cigarettes . |
| 28 | During the evenings he had walked about for hours , pulled at himself , resisted the prostitutes who abounded between here and Primrose Hill ; and all for this continued denial . |
| 29 | The Liberal Democratic Congress and the Confederation for an Independent Poland had pulled out of talks with Olszewski on the formation of a government because of differences over economic policy . |
| 30 | Some bloody fool had slipped up on orders , taken off half-cocked . |