Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evangelist had managed to obtain an affidavit from one of the three Danes responsible for the publication of LRSB but who had since become a Christian , stating that ‘ Mao money ’ had financed the publication of the book in Denmark . |
| 2 | Mahomed had appeared for the defence in a number of political trials , became the first black Senior Counsel in 1974 , and had since become president of the Lesotho Court of Appeal , a member of Swaziland 's Court of Appeal , and a member of the Supreme Court in Namibia , whose Constitution he helped to draft . |
| 3 | He had uneasily come to terms with the fact that Connors had been more than vague , had actually held back vital information . |
| 4 | For smart people , discerning people , the clutter and crush had eventually become too much . |
| 5 | Somehow he knew that she felt in need of comfort that weekend — even that provided by the man she had most cause to hate . |
| 6 | I am talking about grammar schools actually because erm the work that I was concerned with was in the secondary education which erm translated really means meant grammar school education , so that the schools that erm I had most contact with were the grammar schools . |
| 7 | On her first evening at Thomas 's house , after the shopping spree , she had shyly come down to dinner in one of her new dresses . |
| 8 | and erm she had right go at Tessa cos I see them together sometimes . |
| 9 | As in example , the Theban Crates flung all his possessions into the sea saying I had rather drown you than you should drown me . |
| 10 | At Southwark in 1705 , the women took exception to the candidacy of a local Tory JP , a bachelor and renowned misogynist , who had once said " that he had rather see a Sow and Pigs , than a Woman and her Children " . |
| 11 | ‘ I had rather do that , ’ she said . |
| 12 | But I tell you Minnie , for all the independence , I had rather have my old job back and be in service with Mrs Browning . |
| 13 | ‘ I had rather have the certainties of middle-age , ma'am . ’ |
| 14 | John Poole 's temper can not have been improved when he announced the news of Robespierre 's execution , reported in that day 's Western Flying Post , and prompted from Southey the Histrionic cry , ‘ I had rather have heard the death of my own father . ’ |
| 15 | My motive is owing to no dislike I have for him but methinks it would reflect a little upon my Pamela if she had married a man for his estate when she had rather have had another . |
| 16 | That patch had slowly become an image of despair and frustration over many occasions since she had first shared his bed . |
| 17 | However , as he had continued to see her , monopolising every free moment of her time , she had slowly come to accept that he was indeed ‘ interested ’ . |
| 18 | By the middle of 1982 , the peninsula had effectively become a ‘ no-go area ’ for the PWR salesmen . |
| 19 | Even before it was dissolved the TBC had effectively become an arm of the Government under the Ministry of Information and Tourism , and the Minister was clearly determined to impose controls . |
| 20 | I was sitting in what had effectively become my boudoir ; our living room . |
| 21 | By 1988 , principals had effectively become chief executives , with explicit responsibility for the use of public funds . |
| 22 | South of the river , Southwark had effectively become a suburb rather than an independent borough , and to the north and the east of the City walls the immigrant poor clustered together in their cottages . |
| 23 | All the leading candidates were regarded as acceptable to the Army and to the business elite which had effectively run the country since the military coup of 1954 [ see pp. 13677-81 ] . |
| 24 | Saadi , whose family dynasty had effectively run the province for over 40 years , had been dismissed as governor by President Carlos Saúl Menem in April 1991 and the province had been placed under a federal government trusteeship , following widespread evidence of official involvement in corruption and drug trafficking [ see p. 38144 ] . |
| 25 | But , then , while Molly was at home Judith had little cause to feel discontented . |
| 26 | Trade unionists , as we have seen , had little cause to look to the judiciary for the protection of their statutory rights . |
| 27 | Age , education , ideology , even strength of partisanship , had little influence over whether or not people perceived bias on television or in their papers . |
| 28 | Thomas Prestbury , abbot of Shrewsbury , had given over his entire lodging to the prince 's party , since there were ladies among them , and the castle , tightly-garrisoned and well-supplied as a vital base against the rebellious Welsh , had little comfort to offer the Lady Percy and her women . |
| 29 | Curzon had little need to spell out to his contemporaries the commercial and strategic dangers of such a scheme . |
| 30 | In the late 1980s , the Japanese , with their own US plants producing so many cars that they had little need to import more , and with voluntary quotas unfilled , decided to reclassify light commercial vehicles as cars . |