Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at first you did n't realise that was what it was , that it was the novelty of ice cream wrappers and sweet papers and carrier bags and plastic bags strewn about that had changed the appearance of your childhood home , where nothing was ever discarded , but all returned into the cycle of sustenance . |
| 2 | That woman I said about that had the |
| 3 | The ambiguities and sub-clauses to be found in much of the press coverage during 1980–1 had at least acted as a countervailing tendency against the more extreme forms of discourse which blamed the riots completely on black people . |
| 4 | For centre David Lougheed and uncapped lock Jeff Knauer , the CANZ series will be a special challenge for neither had a game during the '91 World Cup . |
| 5 | His widow continued to give parties , for that had always been her talent , inviting the owners of neighbouring villas , the local Chianti growers and the aristocratic keepers of boutiques in Siena . |
| 6 | Last night , he had listened to prayers , but had prayed to no one , for that had never been his habit . |
| 7 | Instead , I 'd found something unlooked for that had changed the course of my entire life . |
| 8 | Well I had n't got through that had I ? |
| 9 | But , by the time he returned to England in April 1186 , Richard 's position as heir-apparent had been further strengthened . |
| 10 | But they were intimate strangers , with their clandestine meetings : in two months of loving , the thought of a happening such as this had never occurred . |
| 11 | An older age group of superior tradesmen here and there — the public bar fraternity shunned the place , for this had been for many years the snob pub of Belgravia . |
| 12 | Previous attempts at encouraging her to sit on the lavatory or the potty for this had ended in tantrums and tears so mother had given up trying . |
| 13 | Fergus should have been standing here , thought Taliesin , and there was a pain and an aching void at the knowledge , for this had been Fergus 's quest and his covenant . |
| 14 | For this had revolutionary effects on agriculture , on food manufacture , on retailing , and on diet . |
| 15 | The man of the world was not as interested as he should have been ; I had become quicker in some respects , mostly practical , but the price for this had been to lose the ability to make other connections . |
| 16 | The idea for this had been offered at a full NEC meeting by Mr Wallace of the Irish Division . |
| 17 | The main impetus for this had come from Roh 's policy of improving links with communist regimes , which had resulted in the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and its eastern European allies in 1988-91 . |
| 18 | It brought a tragic end to a love story that began when they met as they walked their dogs after each had lost a marriage partner to cancer . |
| 19 | Only after that had he said : ‘ Let me drive you back , I 'm staying there , too ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ If you mean , did I see her again either before her car was submerged or after that had happened , no . ’ |
| 21 | Made on exceptional budgets of around £100,000 after Gaumont-British had arranged distribution through Fox , neither Jew Süss ( 1934 , Power in US ) nor The Tunnel ( 1936 , Transatlantic Tunnel in US ) had much to do with Britain . |
| 22 | One excuse after another had been made . |
| 23 | After half a year of their affair , she 'd begun to wonder , wallowing in his affection , how a man whose history had been one infidelity after another had mended his ways ; which thought led to the possibility that perhaps he had n't . |
| 24 | During this trial period a number of useful lessons were learned , not least of which was that we were correct in attempting to take on only one medium sized location and only progress after this had been successfully completed . |
| 25 | After a dramatic ‘ slide rule ’ finish , Hampshire 's men edged out Yorkshire by a single rubber after three had tied on two group wins . |
| 26 | Almost all the new stations opened in the London suburban area after 1920 had some form of subsidy from the developers . |
| 27 | He had after all had a good conference . |
| 28 | I was gone for about three hours : scrambling through hedges ; rummaging in undergrowth ; wrestling with tangled nets ; and throwing into a box the indignant ferrets , who after all had done all the work and only wanted to wring the rabbits ' necks . |
| 29 | At his first formal meeting with the chairmen after all had been appointed , he outlined how he might achieve the generalisation and standardisation of ‘ better practice ’ : |
| 30 | Standing there , surveying the hall , so pleasant now ( though she knew that really she ought to get carpet foam and do over the carpet which after all had been folded up in the dust of the skip ) , she saw that Philip had mended the little cupboard under the stairs that the policeman had kicked in . |