Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Alsatians , their thick pelts soaked and steaming , had sniffed with some certainty around a little icon of the Virgin which stood by the roadside , sheltered from the rain by a stone arch , but after that they had rambled unhappily this way and that and returned whining to their handlers , who were knee-deep in mud , soaked to the skin and cursing roundly . |
| 2 | In that time I followed the course of the massive city walls which over the centuries had sustained so many assaults before falling at last to the Turkish onslaught . |
| 3 | Members of the local black community were enraged by reports that the driver of the vehicle , Yoseph Lisef , 22 , who had sustained only minor injuries , was quickly taken away from the scene of the accident by a private Jewish ambulance service , whilst the more seriously injured children were left to wait for attention from a city ambulance crew . |
| 4 | Only George knew that she had run off to Brighton with a salesman , but his mother had guessed as much and beaten her daughter 's whereabouts out of him with a belt . |
| 5 | There was a sing-song in progress in the dome car and the racegoers in the dayniter had formed about four separate card schools with cash passing briskly . |
| 6 | These pioneer clinics , which numbered only sixteen even by 1930 , had treated only 21,000 women by that time . |
| 7 | One day she had plucked up enough courage to look through the doorway , and had almost choked on the clouds of swirling dust . |
| 8 | I listened in even though I had heard most of it before and then we were told that anybody who had never been in a canoe before had to carry out capsize drills . |
| 9 | When the Michies moved in five years ago , they had to carry out extensive renovations . |
| 10 | In those days the caddies had to carry only half-a-dozen clubs with hickory shafts . |
| 11 | I discovered them almost by accident through the researches of J.B. Oldham , who had traced over 160 examples of bindings from this workshop , which used various ‘ rolls ’ ( tools having a continuous or repeated design round the edge of a wheel ) , including Tudor emblems , the falcon and the golden fleece , as well as the signed one — ‘ R.B. ’ with heads in medallions . |
| 12 | Hess commanded a troop ship during the Second World War and the vessel 's echo sounder had traced out curious mountains on the floor of the Pacific . |
| 13 | Although he had managed to complete " East Coker " there , his duties as an air-raid warden were becoming too arduous for him — he had to sit up two nights each week , and his general loss of sleep made any kind of work more difficult . |
| 14 | But although there was ample room lengthways for sitters to draw back from the blaze sufficiently for comfort , there was less space broadways-on , so that the pairs had to sit fairly close together — which suited Alexander Ramsay very well , for he shared a bench with Mariot . |
| 15 | We just had to sit there all day on our own , and I was in for a couple of weeks . |
| 16 | I am six-foot four , and , in order to sink a pint , I had to sit down first . |
| 17 | Mr Mackie claimed Murray had heated up some heroin in a spoon and injected himself before giving him enough heroin for his own injection . |
| 18 | One other respect in which Pascal is a modem thinker is in his view , which he shared with the Jansenists , that language had proven too strong for mystery , so that theology had become merely a branch of rhetoric . |
| 19 | In Russia imperialism had developed alongside a semi-feudal agrarian structure and the bourgeoisie had proven too feeble to overthrow the absolute monarchy . |
| 20 | They felt that with the Emperor 's death , their Christian God had deserted them , or had proven incomprehensibly capricious ; or more positively they felt that Allah suddenly was shown to be more powerful and |
| 21 | The Scottish Mountaineering Club 's Munros book had warned of a false summit cairn , and if I had longed to see the view from Beinn Dorain , and look down on that road from which the young Gray had gazed upwards 25 years ago , I was going to be disappointed unless the mist lifted . |
| 22 | In an obituary , Seamus Heaney wrote , ‘ There was about him a delicate wildness , and he often thought that the hare , about which he had gathered so many entrancing stories , was his proper , total animal . |
| 23 | She could do nothing about the cold or the slick damp that covered the walls , but she had gathered as much straw as she could and had made a bed in the driest of the cells . |
| 24 | Her handbag had fallen behind the car seat when she 'd stopped at the traffic lights in town so several minutes were lost as she scrabbled for her pass , then when she drove into the car park she could n't immediately find a space and had to drive round several times . |
| 25 | When I mentioned this to my father he said he had to drive up that way and would take me in the car and call back for me within a couple of hours . |
| 26 | Yes , well I was on a r a radio programme with him at one time and er and he was telling about some of his sticky stories , and there was one where he was doing a similar job from a farmhouse and he picked the furniture up and had to drive down this long drive to get onto the road and the the farmer , who presumably was the man who felt er an injustice to him was being done as it were , he was on his tractor , saw the van moving down the driveway , took a shortcut to the road edge , and fired a shotgun at his van . . |
| 27 | The memory of empty bellies because their father had gambled away all the National Assistance was still fresh in their minds . |
| 28 | The able-bodied had to saw up old railway sleepers and then chop up the pieces for sale as firewood . |
| 29 | Then we had to grind best white sandstone to powder and scour all the top surfaces , including the ceilings . |
| 30 | He had spent nearly all of his forty-eight years in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist , and during that time he had witnessed literally thousands of encounters with people from the Other Side . |