Example sentences of "had [vb pp] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first some of the monks were loath to enter on a long and expensive case before the pope , but they had among their number a man of mature years , called Thomas of Marlborough , who had been at the schools of Paris and who had taught at Oxford . |
| 2 | Shortly after the official opening ceremony a collection of no less than 11 Norseman floatplanes that had gathered at Red Lake , started-up , taxied around Howey Bay , took-off ( a tremendous effect as the sound of 11 Pratt and Whitney R–134s revving at full power reverberated around the bay ) and performed a series of fly-bys and overshoots over the bay in salute of CF–DRD and the weekend events . |
| 3 | The day began cold and blustery , in contrast to almost two weeks of uninterrupted warm sunshine , but not even darkening skies could dampen the spirits of a crowd of over 700 Napier staff , students , guests and friends who had gathered at Napier 's Merchiston campus to witness a truly historic moment in Scotland 's history — the birth of a university . |
| 4 | On Aug. 15 itself some 3,000 riot police clashed with 10,000 dissidents who had gathered at Yonsei University in western Seoul with the intention of marching to the Panmunjom rally . |
| 5 | Several smoke bombs were thrown by Catholic youngsters who had gathered at Shipquay Street , stones were thrown and a policeman was knocked unconscious . |
| 6 | By the sixth century , a colony of holy men had gathered at Glastonbury in the Somerset Levels . |
| 7 | They had shuffled at half-time , moving Steve Sedgley back from midfield and Pat van den Hauwe to left-back . |
| 8 | It was only after she had fainted at tennis that her father took her to a specialist who found that she had an extra vertebra . |
| 9 | In any event , he consoled himself , nothing could be worse for Katherine than the situation that had developed at home . |
| 10 | By the 1860s high-class suburbs had developed at Alderley Edge on the Manchester to Crewe main line and at Bowden and Altrincham on the Manchester to Chester line . |
| 11 | Haynes and Richardson opened and put on exactly 100 , then Richards , on his home ground , marched out , the first time he had batted at number three for some while . |
| 12 | After all , even if the papal documents which he mentioned contained no statements about the primacy , the whole history of the archbishops ' powers as described in Bede 's Ecclesiastical History , which Lanfranc had recalled at length , rested on papal letters conferring the care of the whole country on Archbishop Augustine . |
| 13 | Ken Threlfall , the service 's general manager , addressed Darlington Community Health Council which had heard at February 's meeting that an ambulance had taken an hour to reach a patient with a broken arm in Harwood in Teesdale . |
| 14 | Manchester City ! ’ he said , continuing the chant which was so like those I had heard at Manchester 's Maine Road ground that I marvelled when he said he had never been to England . |
| 15 | High and very far to the north I could just hear an aeroplane , only the third or fourth I had heard at night since coming to the island . |
| 16 | As a result , he got the same response as he had received at Munich : ‘ Sorry , no vacancies ’ . |
| 17 | He had stared at Dimitri Volkov and grimaced . |
| 18 | Six metal beer kegs loaded on to a Swiss bound goods train which had stopped at Strasbourg on the same day the vagrant had claimed to be there . |
| 19 | Two days later he was seen again by police this time on the town 's Valley Bridge approaching people and trying to talk to drivers who had stopped at traffic lights . |
| 20 | If you had joined at Paris , then you received a ticket back there ; if , however , you had joined at Marseilles , then you only got fifteen francs to get you down the line from Aubagne . |
| 21 | The Star Eye she had joined at Beltagne would soon no longer exist in the same form , she was sure . |
| 22 | If you had joined at Paris , then you received a ticket back there ; if , however , you had joined at Marseilles , then you only got fifteen francs to get you down the line from Aubagne . |
| 23 | In October 1917 , minute 27640 states : The Acting General Manager mentioned that in connection with the aeroplanes which the Railway Companies had been asked to construct for the government , the L & NW had undertaken at Wolverton a share of the work , i.e. construction of wings . |
| 24 | It was when we had settled down to talk in comfortable armchairs that I told him that the man for whom I had substituted at Marlborough , in the hope of replacing him altogether , now planned to return , so that once more I should be out of a job . |
| 25 | The message merely reported that the French had attacked at dawn and that the Prussian outposts had been driven in south of Charleroi . |
| 26 | A popular legend tells of Arion , a lyric poet and musician , who was returning to Greece from Italy , laden with riches he had won at music competitions . |
| 27 | ‘ Gray would still have been in a job if we had won at Torquay , ’ said Corden , ‘ but it was a diabolical performance and we felt something had to be done . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Gray would still have been in a job if Darlington had won at Torquay . ’ |
| 29 | Pinza started 5–1 joint favourite with Premonition , who had won at Epsom and York earlier in the season . |
| 30 | The Lewes trainer was cleared in August of passing weights to jockey son Mark after Carfax had won at Lingfield in February . |