Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise , one wonders , how could there constantly be those ‘ asides ’ , which seem to reveal that the participants were actually aware the game was up or rather perhaps had never started ? |
| 2 | Throughout his chaotic years in Paris he continued to go to life classes , but he could not afford the five francs an hour for a model and so rarely had a chance to paint the nude , except for his girl-friends , and that , as he was beginning to realize , was expensive too . |
| 3 | It was seldom worth tangling with wizards , they so rarely had any treasure worth speaking of . |
| 4 | Of these perhaps the greatest was that at a stroke all the feckless local officials of whom Wilson complained so bitterly had been removed . |
| 5 | The garden 's sole glory was a laburnum , which blossomed wonderfully each year : but even that she associated more with its dry black fatal pods than with its flowers , so often and so rigorously had she been warned of its poison . |
| 6 | So little had been released from that tight grip , and there was so little natural affinity between them that , for all the hours they had spent in this room together , they remained strangers to one another . |
| 7 | About the opportunity , Greg was less than happy : if the fire , designed to cover up the murder ( which it so successfully had ) , was started in the attic , could Viola have done it ? |
| 8 | So much had changed , so much was new , and yet so much was still my childhood Berkhamsted . |
| 9 | So much had happened since he last saw her . |
| 10 | So much had happened so fast , and the man she loved was so far away . |
| 11 | So much had been expected , yet it was a carbon copy of the wipe-out on the same track three years ago , and may signal a pruning down in future transatlantic visits for the Breeders ' Cup . |
| 12 | So much had happened in the last few months . |
| 13 | So much had changed within the Judge family . |
| 14 | So much had happened since then . |
| 15 | So much had changed . |
| 16 | So much had changed in the city . |
| 17 | So much had happened since — the Marilyn Duxbody fiasco , the Hatherley trip , Pascoe 's death — that it seemed far longer . |
| 18 | So much had happened . |
| 19 | So much had happened that it seemed incredible that it was barely a week since she 'd crossed the bridge in the opposite direction . |
| 20 | So much had happened that it hardly seemed so important any more . |
| 21 | So much had still to be said . |
| 22 | So much had happened in so short a time ; it was like a bad dream . |
| 23 | Er in fact it was put to me as as an option by Superintendent that this could be , if this could be done er at the time er if I recall one of the reasons erm that we were n't able to do it in such a way was that there are numerous exits to the block of flats and each exit would have had to be covered by at least two armed officers we only only had in the region of twenty five officers available to us at that time in the police who were authorised to be armed and to maintain such a surveillance , erm not only would be very costly in the terms of the number of officers . |
| 24 | She so obviously had n't given up stuffing herself with Salmon 's cream buns . |
| 25 | The hatred that had motivated him for so long had inexplicably withered and died . |
| 26 | The moment I 'd been waiting for so long had arrived . |
| 27 | Thus we have witnessed recently the end of an era here , with the closure of the studio complex in Windmill Lane , which for so long had set the trends . |
| 28 | The idea of going to France and turning into reality something which for so long had seemed a dream was now a concrete possibility . |
| 29 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 30 | The reticence which had surrounded the subject for so long had suddenly collapsed on all sides . |