Example sentences of "[conj] had [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Funnily enough , that had n't seemed at all real . |
| 2 | Through Skogen she could see nothing but shadows of a summer that had once flourished in this gorge . |
| 3 | He was standing quietly and had n't spoken at all . |
| 4 | It is true that not every subject or application yielded work we thought matched the excellence we hoped for and had already found in some areas . |
| 5 | Edmund Sparkler born there during a ‘ mighty frost ’ in which , his companions say , ‘ his brain had been frozen up … and had never thawed from that hour ’ . |
| 6 | Simonds , who was to give three to five lectures a week , admitted that , coming from practice in Twickenham , he was not an experienced teacher , and had never lectured to such an audience as attended his inaugural discourse . |
| 7 | In its 1991 annual report published on July 10 , the human rights organization Amnesty International claimed that human rights violations had occurred in 141 countries and had actually worsened in some cases . |
| 8 | They were in a dark corner behind the bandstand in the park and had quickly gone through all the other stages , including the one Sally liked best , kissing and pressing the lower half of their bodies close together as if they were dancing . |
| 9 | By 1914 , Maurice Woods was able to announce that the committee had completed its immediate programme in every field but one and had therefore embarked on several secondary projects . |
| 10 | Kopyion had expressed a great deal of interest in these killings but had not passed on all the information available to him . |
| 11 | I would accept that since I saw a report only the other day about such a case ( the funeral director involved had a son in my class who brought me the file ) the embalmer had used 8 oz per 80 oz of a very good fluid , but had not put in any co or pre injection fluids and did not mix any other fluids , and he put in 4 × 80 oz bottles . |
| 12 | I went back to the beginning and started over , but had n't come to any conclusion when I reached the sign telling me that the Florabelle served the thickest steak in five counties . |
| 13 | By then Tec-huc and Pulvidon and their followers had seen me , but had n't looked at all surprised . |
| 14 | We 've been writing to each other for eight years but had never met until this year . |