Example sentences of "had fail [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite a few of his country clients had been late for their appointments , or had failed to turn up at all , and the story was always the same : British troops had boarded the train as passengers so the driver or the fireman or the guard or ticket-collector — sometimes all four — refused to work and the train never moved . |
| 2 | It was the second time witnesses had failed to turn up for Tapping 's trial . |
| 3 | He had either supported Michael Heseltine in his leadership bid ( ‘ disloyal to dear Mrs Thatcher ’ ) or had failed to turn up to a multitude of constituency functions , wine and cheeses , bring and buys . |
| 4 | A bomb had failed to go off in St John 's Wood , London , on Aug. 6 and another had been defused in Moulsford , Oxfordshire , on Aug. 13 . |
| 5 | He was raving at Maurin , at all the people who had failed to live up to his expectations of them . |
| 6 | If Knowledge plc had failed to get in by the back door , it was this that brought the ideology of the market-place marching in the front . |
| 7 | Some who had failed to get out of the way in time bore the scars like war wounds or medals which they paraded for public admiration . |
| 8 | More than one champion had failed to get down in two from that spot . |
| 9 | The younger ones had simpler jobs , like delivering copies of the War Cry to corps members who had failed to show up for service on Sunday . |
| 10 | When essential papers had failed to come through to Prague , Chadwick had decided to cut corners by manufacturing a few of his own . |
| 11 | He said Russian president Boris Yeltsin had failed to come up with new ideas and had put politics above the national interest . |
| 12 | Held fast in the mud with her cargo of bricks , she had failed to come up with the rising tide and the water had turned her over . |
| 13 | At the earlier hearing , Sheriff Reid had heard that Walters had dreamt up the fraud after a Jersey-based financier had failed to come up with cash to back market research for a new board game . |