Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The Workshop in Communicative Grammar bore the stamp of its energetic organizer , , who had gone so far as to postpone a Fulbright Fellowship to study with in Pennsylvania in order to bring the planned Workshop to fruition .
2 CLO had significantly more non-smokers and those who had smoked lightly before than the severe reflux oesophagitis or adenocarcinoma groups ( p<0.001 ) .
3 He advanced on Nick who had retreated as far as he could .
4 An exception was an early seventeenth-century black and white cottage ( slightly askew , like the crooked man 's in the nursery rhyme ) which was the pride and joy of an old man who had lived there ever since anyone could remember .
5 She looked at her sister , who had grown very still and was staring down at her hands .
6 Bathsheba 's young heart was full of pity for this sensitive man who had spoken so simply and honestly .
7 But there was no point in talking to Victoria , who had forgotten anywhere else because she lived from day to day .
8 And within six years , wanting to register ( in The Criter - ion for 1934 ) the distinction of Binyon 's version of the Inferno despite its consistent inversions of prosaic word order , Pound found himself in the same situation , having to contend with those who had learned too well or too inflexibly the lessons he himself had taught them :
9 They all die , except a 15-year-old who had behaved so badly that he was forbidden to taste what turned out to be deadly toadstools .
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