Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I stepped past them Iain had his glasses on and was peering at a diagram the engineer had roughed out in his notepad . |
| 2 | Yes , we had stumbled back in time all right , to those days of portion control when catering managers were gods , working miracles of loaves and fishes on ever smaller plates filled with dry greenery and tomatoes cut like starfish . |
| 3 | It was as if all the stifled rebellion on which the great flat and heavy city had pressed with its pompous facades since the time of those artisans whom Peter the Great had sent to perish in building it in the swamp , had boiled up in a single night . |
| 4 | Either he left when he discovered the pregnancy , or he had already gone , or the relationship had broken up in the first year or two after having the baby , when he had been unwilling or unable to settle down and take the responsibility . |
| 5 | The session had been intended to set a date for reconvening the 14th party congress , which had broken up in disarray on Jan. 23 [ see pp. 37172 ] . |
| 6 | At least one person was shot by unknown gunmen after an Inkatha rally , addressed by the party leader , Mangosuthu Buthelezi , had broken up in Katlehong . |
| 7 | The sea had broken through in several places , and many homes are at risk from flooding . |
| 8 | The following morning the room looked as though an expedition had broken out in it , so we fought all the bits back into the sacs , smiled sweetly at the girl on reception and left . |
| 9 | Addressing the court before sentencing , and speaking in that confiding style whose quality of extreme directness made ordinary statements seem extraordinary , Gandhi took upon himself complete responsibility for ‘ the diabolical crimes of Chauri Chaura ’ and other disturbances which had broken out in recent weeks . |
| 10 | In March 1948 a communist insurrection had broken out in Burma . |
| 11 | It was making her heartbeat erratic , and her whole body had broken out in a fine dew of perspiration . |
| 12 | On the evening of Saturday 30 January , a fire had broken out in a process area on the mezzanine floor of the building . |
| 13 | On the same day , a mojaheddin radio station reported that bloody intra-Parcham clashes had broken out in Kabul between supporters of Najibullah and those of Sultan Ali Keshtmand , Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers . |
| 14 | The Tokyo stock exchange fell to its lowest level in 3½ years on Sept. 28 on unfounded rumours that war had broken out in the Gulf . |
| 15 | Meanwhile there were also reports on March 12 that unrest had broken out in the Shia districts of Baghdad ( Saddam City and Shuala ) and that curfews had been imposed . |
| 16 | Heavy fighting had broken out in late March when guerrillas of the Karen National Union ( KNU ) , supported by student dissidents , attempted to wrest control of the town from government forces . |
| 17 | In May 1937 street fighting had broken out in Barcelona and was used as an excuse for outlawing the " Trotskyist " POUM , not in fact Trotskyist but a breakaway from the Spanish Communist Party in close touch with the British ILP.6 By 1938 the Communist Party had so entrenched itself through the use of Soviet aid and advisers that it was able to force the resignation of Prime Minister Prieto and to improve its position in the Cabinet . |
| 18 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 19 | But the child protection system had broken down in this instance , not because of the excessive timidity or woolliness of social workers who missed the warning signs and failed to act , but because of their over confidence in medical diagnoses and their ready reliance on compulsory measures to remove the children . |
| 20 | Cripps denied that the books had been improperly kept , saying that an accounts clerk had been appointed to look after them after his own health had broken down in 1917 . |
| 21 | Something had broken down in them . |
| 22 | Peter would like it ; poor Peter , who had broken down in bed the night before , and wept that he had failed her , failed her as well as — but he could n't actually articulate that . |
| 23 | There had been reports on April 2 that a meeting to discuss the formation of a more representative government had broken down in disagreement between Crown Prince Saad and representatives of a coalition of merchant groups , Islamic parties and former members of parliament . |
| 24 | In an immediate response to the latest left-wing guerrilla offensive , the government on Sept. 5 ruled out the renewal of peace talks which had broken down in March [ see p. 38809 ] and were suspended indefinitely in May . |
| 25 | The prosecution claimed in its opening address that one of the men accused of the killing had broken down in front of his wife and confessed to the murder . |
| 26 | These guerrillas — Collin Gubbins had pointed out in 1939 — would be in actions usually fought ‘ at point-blank range as the result of an ambush or raid ’ . |
| 27 | As William Gutteridge had pointed out in 1969 , the ability of the new polytechnics to match up to the universities was drastically hampered by their lack of resources of all kinds : |
| 28 | Now all their colleagues craved stardom too , and almost overnight the once faceless bureaucrats had blossomed out in trendy clothes and bushy beards , and an anonymous letter was enough to get them as excited as any schoolboy . |
| 29 | We had agreed not to talk about fitting-out problems and we lay in the sun drinking from the bottle Iain had humped up in his backpack . |
| 30 | As Dean Acheson had commented back in 1962 , Britain had indeed lost an empire yet failed to find a post-imperial role . |