Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clouds had parted at last , and the western sky was flooded with shining gold . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Waving a fist at the camera , Cameron Nielson recited the names of those blacklist casualties he had avenged at last . |
| 4 | One of the leading dissidents reflected the wider view , when Winston Churchill thanked Mr Heseltine for the ‘ considerable distance ’ he had travelled since last year . |
| 5 | The water cooled too quickly for her to stay long in the bath , but afterwards she lay fully dressed on the bed for a while , listening , her spirits rising as she realised that the wind had dropped at last . |
| 6 | Mattan , who had taken over the yellow jersey from Lillywhite in Leicester on Saturday , started yesterday 33 seconds ahead of Lillywhite but had dropped to fourth place overall by the end of the day . |
| 7 | Peirson had resigned on 1st February 1651 , and there were two candidates for the post , William Duncan and Thomas Coombes . |
| 8 | Even the child in Molly 's arms smiled sleepily when her sisters told her that the water had come at last . |
| 9 | The time had come at last for Confucius to bow to the sages of the modern world ! |
| 10 | The birds gave voice so vigorously that relief that the sun had come at last might almost be detected in their song — the warm , exhilarating sun . |
| 11 | The competition was to take place in August and , although she was for ever panicking about what they still could n't do , she tended to overlook how far they had come from first beginnings . |
| 12 | On 20 May 5 Corps had reported to Eighth Army on the meeting which had taken place the previous evening between Brig Low and Col Ivanovitch . |
| 13 | It was the first time the bishops had met following last November 's historic vote by the Church of England 's General Synod in favour of women 's ordination as priests . |
| 14 | True , he had struggled at first to satisfy his beautiful young bride ; he had been too long a bachelor and too set in his ways . |
| 15 | The girl had struggled at first , but Bernice had reassured her : They 'll bring me to you in just a minute , she 'd said . |
| 16 | " My sons told me you lost your wife in a swimming accident four years ago , Monsieur Devraux , " she had said at last , speaking quietly in French . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought that they were extinct , ’ Zach had said on first seeing her riding it . |
| 18 | " Confound it , Lovat , " she had said upon first setting eyes on Topaz . |
| 19 | This was immediately confirmed by a sound similar to that which my own shoulders had made on first entering the narrow space . |
| 20 | Many had to borrow money , a need that had grown since last year 's replacement of social security single grants for urgent needs or repairs by social fund loans . |
| 21 | The Frenchman 's dark aquiline features and unsmiling silences made him think of history-book pictures he 'd seen of the warrior heroes of ancient Greece and Rome , and the dismay he had felt at first when their car had struck the Annamese villager had increased his sense of awe . |
| 22 | When he recalled how he had felt on first seeing her he had to push the sinful thoughts out of his mind . |
| 23 | Let's go and see it , he had said , and she had recoiled at first . |
| 24 | He had ‘ guested ’ for the Palace effectively during the 1st World War and proved his ability in the best possible way for Northampton Town against us in the two seasons immediately after it so , when Manager Edmund Goodman needed a duality centre-forward to replace Bert Menlove , who had moved to 1st Division Sheffield United in March 1922 , he acted with decision and haste . |
| 25 | Dave Wise had moved in next door a month ago . |
| 26 | It found that in the 3 years since the first survey , crime had moved from third place to the top of people ‘ s list of problems affecting their neighbourhood . |
| 27 | He had converted one of the outhouses into a sort of workshop where he tinkered with a collection of small engines , antique lighting plants and water pumps that he had bought for next to nothing at country auctions over the years . |
| 28 | She rose from her knees to face two pairs of eyes in which hope had died at last . |
| 29 | During the Autumn Term of 1981 a Memorial Service was held for Mr. A. Johnston , who had died on 22nd July . |
| 30 | Engineers , it was often said , only carried out ideas that other people had thought of first . |