Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Hugh , although able to look like a jeune premier from time to time , had filled out as a result of an under-demanding marriage and a sedentary occupation , and would have been a round peg for such a small square hole . |
| 2 | Mr Nightingale had been a wartime soldier in a fairly respectable regiment ( George 's opinion as an excavalryman ) and while he had filled out to a pink-and-white chubbiness he still wore a small military moustache that had stayed loyally ginger as a reminder of the Desert campaign . |
| 3 | I immediately asked Dennis if he was OK , and pointed out that I thought that the ball had jumped up from a good length . |
| 4 | In the opinion of many Bohm had jumped out of an indeterminate frying pan into a crackling non-local fire . |
| 5 | She had run the country for 11 years ; and he had coasted along to a fourth Conservative victory on the back of her achievements . |
| 6 | Writer Brad Darrach , who had flown down for an interview with Hopper , described the scene that developed : ‘ By mid-afternoon , the games became serious . |
| 7 | It was as if all the stifled rebellion on which the great flat and heavy city had pressed with its pompous facades since the time of those artisans whom Peter the Great had sent to perish in building it in the swamp , had boiled up in a single night . |
| 8 | In the heat of a sultry evening , Britain had the fitness and the heart to outlast the clever Koreans and it was Sixsmith who got the winner , poaching in the area after the ball had pinballed around from a short corner . |
| 9 | In the three years since he had broken through as a pop star , Kylie has constructed a network of companies to handle her affairs . |
| 10 | The movies had broken through to a vast new public and everything was on a different scale . |
| 11 | Clashes between riot police and demonstrators had broken out during a student demonstration outside the Education Ministry on Oct. 24 . |
| 12 | It was making her heartbeat erratic , and her whole body had broken out in a fine dew of perspiration . |
| 13 | On the evening of Saturday 30 January , a fire had broken out in a process area on the mezzanine floor of the building . |
| 14 | The activists had given up on a people 's peace — and they were not yet ready to explore the possibilities of a people 's war . |
| 15 | For the sake of a quiet life he had given in to an unreasonable request and only now did he fully realize what it meant . |
| 16 | The club , by now had spilled out into a sort of annexe conservatory at the back of the room and by the time the summer arrived , people were spilling out into the garden and , in fact , used to come into the club by this route illegally . |
| 17 | My candle had fallen on to a Bible on the shelf and was burning it . |
| 18 | Boyfriend Garry Curtis , of Bedhampton , Hants , dragged her to safety — and rescuers arrived to find the couple , who had fallen out at a party , kissing and hugging . |
| 19 | It was as if she had fallen out of a generous sky . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But she had done it in a very peculiar way : she had booked in to a private Well Woman Clinic under an assumed name . |
| 23 | His heavy gold rings and his bomber jacket and his wide-foot stance had added up to a man of experience in my eyes . |
| 24 | ’ Like Muir , Eliot had won through to a vision of final acceptance , which allowed him to look back even to Sweeney and to call him , at Columbia in 1958 , ‘ friend ’ . |
| 25 | Sara carefully separated her gloves which she had rolled up into a ball . |
| 26 | Lucy had curled up on a pile of old throwouts in the corner of the Wardrobe department , and had pulled some of them over herself like a burrowing animal . |
| 27 | He stooped to retrieve an ear-ring which had dropped out of a blouse he was holding . |
| 28 | She had detoured through the town 's central square on the way home and had sat down on a bench , raising her head to the trees . |
| 29 | John Simpson had also been appalled by the competition entries for Paternoster Square and , at a very late stage , had managed to get hold of a copy of the brief — — to provide office space and car parking — and had sat down with a number of colleagues to draw up a scheme of their own . |
| 30 | What had started out as a dramatic sea chase and developed into a running battle had fizzled out in a disappointing anti-climax . |