Example sentences of "had get [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had gotten to that section of the tune where it was obvious that we had played enough for the outro and I decided , off the top of my head , to start playing a song that I had started writing earlier in the week . |
| 2 | How they had got onto this Wilson could not remember , but Mrs Browning was the more worried . |
| 3 | Debts had swallowed up most of the money he had got for Carinish Court . |
| 4 | ‘ And even though most would have been quite happy to get where I had got at that age , I believe that a man is nothing unless he believes he has greater possibilities . |
| 5 | In ten days , the unknown Fayeds gained permission to own House of Fraser , and throughout the ten days they put continuous lies before the public to justify the Government permissions they had got with such ease . |
| 6 | We found in the interviews that once we had got beyond some version of this public model of management , managers attempted to humanize this by drawing on metaphors from their own experience and inner resources . |
| 7 | Firemen were called to the river Taff in Llandaff to rescue Eric , a 10-stone Irish Wolfhound who had got into deep water after deciding to go in for a swim . |
| 8 | The Liverpool Stipendiary Magistrate dismissed summonses brought against a Liverpool Constable for selling tickets in an unauthorised lottery … the Constable had got into financial difficulties owing to a serious illness of his wife and the ill-health of his two children . |
| 9 | The plaintiff had got into financial difficulties . |
| 10 | She would like to get her own back for that row she had got into last October . |
| 11 | On this occasion , fate in the form of Boz Buckland stepped in before Vulcan had got into full stride . |
| 12 | Meanwhile Aureole had got into top gear and came through into second place , but try as he might he could never pose a threat to Pinza , who galloped on relentlessly to win by four lengths , with Pink Horse running on to take third place a length and a half further adrift and the gallant Shikampur a tired fourth . |
| 13 | I could n't remember how we had got into this conversation . |
| 14 | They were often together trying to think how the babies had got into this state . |
| 15 | It was difficult to look haughty and defiant when she knew exactly what a mess she looked and still held the memory of why she had got into this state . |
| 16 | And her mind did n't question how she had got into this situation but how she was going to get out of it . |
| 17 | Harry had lost the high , blooming colour he had got from two hours of strenuous play with blunted swords , and was pale now with a bright , wary , aggressive pallor . |
| 18 | Somehow she had to get into grown-up territory . |
| 19 | Carbon dioxide from the atmosphere made the water slightly acidic so it corroded the limestone , and where the water had to get through peaty soil before it hit the rock the acidity was stronger . |