Example sentences of "had [vb pp] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Bottomley said that in her South-West Surrey constituency she had heard at first hand many stories of personal anguish , crisis and despair in the last hard year . |
| 2 | They were also rooted in the past and in the nature of things — in the past , through the gifts of land , relics , and rights which they had received at various times ; in the nature of things through the physical separation of the British Isles from the rest of the world as an alter orbis . |
| 3 | How could she accuse the traditional education he had received at Welsh hands , when she herself was not entirely innocent ? |
| 4 | They had stared at each other without speaking for a moment , and then she said , ‘ She deserves a five-shilling Christmas Box . ’ |
| 5 | This band was expanded by the World Administrative Radio Conference in 1979 to extend from 88 to 108 MHz — previously it had stopped at 100 MHz . |
| 6 | The car had stopped at some traffic lights . |
| 7 | The Air Djibouti flight from Addis Ababa had stopped at Dire Dawa but had picked up no passengers . |
| 8 | In one corner of the tower lay the bell which had fallen at some time in the past . |
| 9 | They had looked at each other , disconcerted at this apparent lack of liaison , but McLeish had been reassuring : very natural that they had n't compared notes , extremely useful that he now knew how long the car had been there . |
| 10 | It had been gentle , a sweet , surprised discovering , and they had looked at each other shyly afterwards , unable to speak . |
| 11 | The girls had looked at each other curiously and Antonia had trailed obediently after the older woman . |
| 12 | The boys around him had looked at each other . |
| 13 | She declined to say if the supermarket group had looked at alternative sites in the town . |
| 14 | But the service had looked at 18 areas and applied a Home Office computer to determine which fire station turns out first to a fire . |
| 15 | Never in the entire two years she 'd known him had he inspired in her such a hopeless rage of jealousy as she 'd experienced when Guido had looked at that girl . |
| 16 | Mr Banks , a member of the North-East Regional Schools Security Group and vice-chairman of the Association of Local Authority Risk Managers ( Alarm ) , said the county had looked at various ways of improving security in schools . |
| 17 | It was in fact the first time in his life that he had looked at any woman . |
| 18 | Although the courts ' attitude to reports leading to legislation has varied , until recently there was no modern case in which the court had looked at parliamentary debates as an aid to construction . |
| 19 | The call for the entire squadron to scramble for a major transferral had come at 0.700 hours . |
| 20 | Devotional vids had hinted at such possibilities . |
| 21 | Indeed , recently a journalist from The Lady had hinted at some connection between the heroine and Lily . |
| 22 | He did n't come quite under the heading of despised male sex but she was sure he had done at one time . |
| 23 | Evans flushed and looked far more embarrassed than he had done at any stage so far . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Critics of the Vienna conference , notably the Tehran-based Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq ( SAIRI ) , had said at that time that the conference should have been held in the region to make it more accessible for the bulk of the exiled opposition . |
| 26 | the whole place was gon na come to a halt if anybody fired a flash gun and furiously Fred grabbed the royal people and I grabbed the Finns and we started reorganising the present so they could take place under the enormous great windows that there are in and nobody had said at any time a flash gun will stop the machines . |
| 27 | Waiting just like the other four men Hitch had positioned at various places along the Thames . |
| 28 | His supporters were also quick to remind others of her opposition to the principle of referenda in 1975 , circulating copies of speeches she had made at that time . |
| 29 | WHEN HE saw his hands in the light he flinched , and held them away from him , to avoid letting them touch any other part of his person or habit , for the right was engrained with drying blood across the palm and between the fingers , and the fingers of the left were dabbled at the tips , as if they had felt at stained clothing . |
| 30 | For example , in what was a most influential study at the time , Robert Sears , Eleanor Maccoby and Harry Levin obtained reports from the mothers of 379 5 year olds on the rearing practices they had adopted at various phases of their children 's lives . |