Example sentences of "[adv] [noun prp] [noun prp] had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So regretfully Sven Svennsen had to go back to Sweden . |
| 2 | So Connie Fraser had turned up after all . |
| 3 | Only Phil Aldrich had seemed as placid as ever , even after being interrupted in the middle of his lunch , and thereafter being seated in the Lancaster Room , writing busily on the hotel notepaper ; and being interrupted just the once , and then only briefly , by Janet Roscoe — the latter intent , it appeared , on fomenting further dissatisfaction whenever possible . |
| 4 | As they hurried down Fleet Street Athelstan wondered if perhaps Sir John had drunk too deep . |
| 5 | On coming ashore Charles Newman had set up his headquarters near the bridge ( 'G' ) across the lock leading from the Entrance . |
| 6 | He suddenly felt some sympathy for her : her intentions had been evil but Jane could hardly have foreseen the appalling results of her maliciousness — if indeed Jim Lancaster had stormed off and murdered his wife . |
| 7 | Ruth wondered how Maria Luisa had explained away the baby she had conceived with her ‘ jolly good friend ’ . |
| 8 | Two and a half months earlier Dedjazmatch Abashum had come here with a large force to collect the tribute which the Asaimara were withholding , but he had been afraid to enter Bahdu and had withdrawn . |
| 9 | Then Mr Crumwallis had walked in . |
| 10 | She asked when Maggie Parkin had found out about her husband 's affair . |
| 11 | The current US policy toward Cambodia had its roots in the late 1970s when President Carter had set aside concerns over the appalling human rights record while in power of the Khmers Rouges in order to maintain friendly relations with China , the principal patron of the Khmers Rouges . |
| 12 | But many people wondered why Mr Peairs had used quite so powerful a weapon , and why he had not simply fired it into the air ; or why , living as he did in a relatively safe middle-class suburb , he had been so scared . |
| 13 | It had n't occurred to her that I might take up the blackmail where Jack Mahoney had left off . |
| 14 | Samuel was moving determinedly into position before the last house of the morning , the private dwelling on the seafront where Mary Strong had chased away donkeys from the grassland in front of her cottage , thus inspiring Dickens to create Miss Betsy Trotwood in David Copperfield , though he tactfully set her residence in Dover . |
| 15 | There was a time when Captain Simcox had fitted comfortably into the officer class — but that was before the war and his marriage to Elizabeth . |
| 16 | Few of them were old enough to remember the first Great Famine of the 1840s , when Father Cavanagh had worked tirelessly to help the starving . |
| 17 | It was here now , the place where Russell Bryant had lived happily while she had run with her mother from place to place . |