Example sentences of "had [vb pp] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emergency staff had realised at 5 a.m. on Thursday 7 July that dialysis patients were at special risk from the aluminium , but the house of Robert Hill , a local man with kidney failure and a dialysis machine , was not contacted until the next day . |
| 2 | The clouds had parted at last , and the western sky was flooded with shining gold . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They were also rooted in the past and in the nature of things — in the past , through the gifts of land , relics , and rights which they had received at various times ; in the nature of things through the physical separation of the British Isles from the rest of the world as an alter orbis . |
| 5 | How could she accuse the traditional education he had received at Welsh hands , when she herself was not entirely innocent ? |
| 6 | They had stared at each other without speaking for a moment , and then she said , ‘ She deserves a five-shilling Christmas Box . ’ |
| 7 | This band was expanded by the World Administrative Radio Conference in 1979 to extend from 88 to 108 MHz — previously it had stopped at 100 MHz . |
| 8 | The car Clock had stopped at 11 o'clock , her watch a few minutes after . |
| 9 | The hands had stopped at five to four . |
| 10 | The car had stopped at some traffic lights . |
| 11 | The watch had stopped at three o'clock . |
| 12 | The Air Djibouti flight from Addis Ababa had stopped at Dire Dawa but had picked up no passengers . |
| 13 | The boy had scoffed at this but Farag had told him to wait and see . |
| 14 | Waving a fist at the camera , Cameron Nielson recited the names of those blacklist casualties he had avenged at last . |
| 15 | This unprecedented discovery indicated one of two things : either at least four meteorites had fallen at the same place in Antarctica ( an event of vanishingly small statistical probability ) , or fragments of four meteorites , which had fallen at random on the interior ice sheet , had been carried to the Yamato Mountains site by ice motion . |
| 16 | In one corner of the tower lay the bell which had fallen at some time in the past . |
| 17 | It was not as I had expected at all because living in the kind of commune that Mary Finnigan 's house was , there was n't a lot of time for romance . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They had looked at each other , disconcerted at this apparent lack of liaison , but McLeish had been reassuring : very natural that they had n't compared notes , extremely useful that he now knew how long the car had been there . |
| 20 | It had been gentle , a sweet , surprised discovering , and they had looked at each other shyly afterwards , unable to speak . |
| 21 | The girls had looked at each other curiously and Antonia had trailed obediently after the older woman . |
| 22 | The boys around him had looked at each other . |
| 23 | He had looked at one , years ago , but it had taken him three days to read it , carefully , from cover to cover , by which time he realized that , if he was going to do the thing at all conscientiously , he would never be abreast of current developments . |
| 24 | However , it was clear from the Special Commissioner 's decision that he had looked at all the evidence and asked himself whether in view of that evidence it had been reasonable for the inspector to form the view he had taken . |
| 25 | She declined to say if the supermarket group had looked at alternative sites in the town . |
| 26 | But the service had looked at 18 areas and applied a Home Office computer to determine which fire station turns out first to a fire . |
| 27 | Never in the entire two years she 'd known him had he inspired in her such a hopeless rage of jealousy as she 'd experienced when Guido had looked at that girl . |
| 28 | Mr Banks , a member of the North-East Regional Schools Security Group and vice-chairman of the Association of Local Authority Risk Managers ( Alarm ) , said the county had looked at various ways of improving security in schools . |
| 29 | She remembered how he had looked at her-awed , his eyes round in his face — and laughed , imagining it . |
| 30 | It was in fact the first time in his life that he had looked at any woman . |