Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , it must have been my day as with half an hour to go I had just got to the end of my swim when the float buried and the elastic shot out . |
| 2 | A trip to the local agent found they had not got one in stock , but I managed to get one for a P6 car . |
| 3 | In front of them , about twenty yards away , he had seen a barbed-wire fence some three feet high which an old corporal told him had already cost a thousand lives of those who had done nothing more than erect it . |
| 4 | Her fellow passenger 's action showed she had also lost her royal mystique and air of untouchability — after all , no one would previously have dared ask the future queen for an autograph . |
| 5 | He continued to look her up and down , with no evidence of warmth at what he saw but just a tightening of the hard lips and that aloof dark stare she had already witnessed . |
| 6 | Dot decided she had better copy Mrs Hollidaye . |
| 7 | However , he assured her that the fact Putt was conscious when he was brought back to the manor meant he had probably suffered no permanent damage . |
| 8 | The stage doorkeeper said he had already left . |
| 9 | Rank 's wilful demolition of his own dream suggests he had simply had enough of trying to create a niche for British films in the American market . |
| 10 | France 's atomic energy board ( CEA ) has admitted that " radioactive elements " had been " detected " at the sites of former nuclear waste dumps it had officially declared clean . |
| 11 | Heaven send they had not given up on her ! |
| 12 | Rain noticed he had not argued about Sabine Jourdain 's role in painting the Durances . |
| 13 | The Maggot assumed I had already known that . |
| 14 | With less than twenty minutes of his shift remaining he had already decided on the clothes he would be wearing for the special occasion . |
| 15 | But Miss Blagden , whom I met by chance yesterday , is going to Rome and when I told her the absurdity of your request she volunteered to carry your ridiculous weapon saying she had always had a fancy to be a gun-runner and that it would be a tale to tell her friends and astonish them . |
| 16 | It was after the 1990 England v Ireland game at Twickenham that Paul Ackford casually mentioned to one of the Irish players that his team knew it had only to withstand Ireland 's 20 minutes of blood and guts to win easily . |
| 17 | There was no denying that the new corset had an impressive effect on her waist , but the dress disconcerted her — the first true evening dress she had ever had — because it left her shoulders quite bare as well as a considerable amount of — of , well , upper bosom , and all her arms . |
| 18 | Only five per cent of those who bought for cash said they had even considered credit as an alternative . |
| 19 | Prentice turned his head to see what had just missed him , making the finger-rubbing gesture and whispering ‘ Puss … puss … ’ which is something I 've noticed a lot of people who have n't met Springsteen do . |
| 20 | The court heard he had also lost his job . |
| 21 | One shaikh said he had never intervened in a notorious internal quarrel because ‘ they would say I was a shaikh ’ . |
| 22 | There was no use pretending it had n't happened : I had wished for a pure Pacific experience , a truly new world experience at the dawning of this day , yet it had become hopelessly muddied with a relic of the old world and the Ocean whose time , we are now supposed to believe , has passed . |
| 23 | Wolfgang Schäuble , parliamentary leader of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) , had on Aug. 31 suggested that financing for the east should be raised by the introduction of a compulsory 5 per cent interest-free investment bond , repayable after 1996 , ( i ) for those earning over DM5,000 per month gross who had not bought special eastern solidarity bonds ; or ( ii ) for businesses with more than 20 employees which had not invested in the east . |
| 24 | She gave Sister Anne a smile and the young nun thought she had never seen such absolute perfection of countenance in another human being . |
| 25 | John Coffin thought he had never sat in a room with so many clocks . |
| 26 | None of the pirates were exactly slim , and once more the Mate wished he had n't eaten so much lobster for lunch . |
| 27 | On the Friday before the incident occurred he had not got home until three o'clock in the morning . |
| 28 | The presiding jury claimed they had not chosen her , as she alleged , but Elina Guimaraes , an 84-year-old former suffragette . |
| 29 | But the jury decided she had not endangered other people 's lives . |
| 30 | When Mrs Carlson went round she had a glass of something , excused herself from a chicken leg saying they had just eaten dinner . |