Example sentences of "[conj] had [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His whole body spoke a subtle language of command ; something that had developed quite naturally and unconsciously during the long years of his rule . |
| 2 | It was because all that had happened so often that the baby was coming . |
| 3 | Some of her friends had fairly eccentric ideas of bed-sitter decoration , and had done far better than the Chianti-bottle , British Railway-poster effort , but none of them had ever conceived of anything like this : and the nicest room she had ever seen had been the drawing room of a friend 's mother in Sevenoaks , which had been distinguished by a bare and gentle colour scheme , and some pretty Georgian furniture . |
| 4 | The cloth was linen , for Mrs Maugham held that plastic table cloths were the last resort of the working classes , and had said so often and at length ; but it was adorned with place mats of plastic . |
| 5 | A large proportion of the younger generation , growing up during the Nazi era and highly impressionable , had been fully exposed to the suggestive force of propaganda and had succumbed more uncritically than any other section of the population to the emotional appeal of the ‘ Führer myth ’ . |
| 6 | She was the Major 's gundog and had pined so badly when her master died , Blanche had considered putting her down . |
| 7 | Bevin had met Lionel Curtis in 1938 and had believed ever since that the Commonwealth was the foundation of a new world order . |
| 8 | The Dean and Chapter had recently forbidden parking there and had won as far as cars were concerned , but the local inhabitants had always parked their bikes there and continued so to do . |
| 9 | The German Communist Party had not only failed to carry out.the revolution but had vanished as rapidly as the Social Democrats . |