Example sentences of "had [vb pp] at one [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He did n't come quite under the heading of despised male sex but she was sure he had done at one time . |
2 | They had all come to her , one by one , during the evening , an evening harried with telephone calls — ‘ I do n't think , ’ Anna had said at one point , ‘ that we have eaten an uninterrupted meal in twenty-one years ’ — and they had all explained to her how awful they felt , and how guilty they felt about feeling awful , because it was n't anybody 's fault , and that made it worse , having nobody to blame . |
3 | Wistaria Cottage was n't worth much and in any case he had talked at one point of trading it in for an annuity . |
4 | They had stood at one set all , but Hammond held two service breaks in the third . |
5 | Also unaccompanied , like Nolan , though Harry had mentioned at one time that Lewis was married : his reclusive wife preferred to stay at home to avoid the fuss and fracas of Lewis drunk . |
6 | The snow had drifted at one end , at the beck of the wind , so that it reached almost to the eaves of the roof . |