Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am six-foot four , and , in order to sink a pint , I had to sit down first . |
| 2 | They finished the session , stripped the gearbox and found a tooth had broken off second gear . |
| 3 | As Ben had pointed out last night , his Annie was scurrying between the looms when she was seven , and barefoot . |
| 4 | They got there but they had to go in second gear look |
| 5 | Perhaps from her sister , because she knew you and Clare had dined there last year , shortly before … . ’ |
| 6 | He had come out first of everyone in his early examinations , and worked constantly . |
| 7 | Master Butcher Howard Callaghan and shop manager Alan Dean who had picked up first prize for an impressive window display in a competition in Harrogate on Monday , spent yesterday cleaning up the mess . |
| 8 | The depute fiscal , Brian Crookshanks , told the court that staff at the stables had noticed early last year she had become more withdrawn and was putting on weight . |
| 9 | Fourteen words went down before he stopped , hand slackening , thoughts dipping back to the girl he had seen late last night in the coffee bar . |
| 10 | Overcome by the romance of the setting , she did what she had always promised herself she would not , until Nicky had done so first . |
| 11 | Look at all these people , taking and taking though Jim had said proudly last night that now he would contribute properly ; he would pay his way , Alice need n't think that he would n't . |
| 12 | It was all that remained of a new bone-china tea set she had bought only last week . |
| 13 | Marie had slept well last night : there had been no dreams of violence . |
| 14 | But Mr O'Brien had to resign abruptly last summer when he became the subject of a grand-jury investigation into possible illegal loans from a military sub-contractor . |
| 15 | Mr Doran had moved his wife 's cake to the first position , and Mr Clancy had moved it back to the middle , saying the first cake tasted had the best chance , and his wife 's cake would be first as it had got there first . |
| 16 | Only a couple of guys had got there first ; Ember had picked their position well . |
| 17 | Somehow , Kapitan Weber had got there first . |
| 18 | One morning Jonquil had got there first . |
| 19 | It was about sex — not about sexual politics — but another show was about to go on the road , and Oz had got there first . |
| 20 | The poser 's cafe had free newspapers and she filled in the crosswords shamelessly , was even miffed if someone else had got there first , especially with a blue Biro : Alex used a black Biro for crosswords . |
| 21 | Whoever had washed up last night had n't cleaned the cooker , there was no light-bulb in the one cell in the basement and someone had had to be dispatched to wake up the ironmonger because nobody could find a spare . |
| 22 | Well tha no that was n't padded that was for do n't quite know what they wanted to do with that erm but there was erm a face that was built up with three different sizes of felt , small , next size , next size up , not not much bigger each time , then you had a piece of calico a little bit bigger , you did a running thread all round the outside and pulled it so that it , lapped over the felt which you had stitched down first . |
| 23 | And for the important State Gala she donned an outfit she had worn only last week at the Queen 's 40th Anniversary celebrations and before that on the Nigerian tour in 1989 . |
| 24 | It was n't the first time Luke had contacted her since their sight seeing expedition — the flowers that by now she was coming to expect had arrived promptly next day , and with them a handwritten note — but it was the first time that she had heard his voice . |
| 25 | Una had arrived home first , followed by Luke and Sonny . |
| 26 | You see , Miss Williams — or should I make that Fran , so that I can get used to calling you that ? — I could n't very well tell the police what had gone on last night , so I improvised . |
| 27 | That was exactly where things had gone awry last night , and she was n't falling into that trap again . |
| 28 | The hour had gone forward last Sunday . |
| 29 | Jo and Maggie and some of the others from work had gone back last week and met them again . |
| 30 | Demyonov had gone home last week in an elaborate casket dark inside the cargo hold of a Tupolev airliner . |