Example sentences of "had recently [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and had recently written in collaboration with the new librarian , the head of lower school , and the second in department , some study skills booklets for use by children in the library : The study skills … came in really last year . |
| 2 | William was more eager that he should show me some papers he had recently received by post from America . |
| 3 | They were named as Col. Mangwane Khosana , Gqozo 's former right-hand man who had recently escaped from custody facing treason charges , and Lt.-Gen. |
| 4 | They continued chatting for a while , in which time Nigger got the definite impression that the six months in jail that Terry told him he had recently endured for receiving stolen property , had taught him nothing at all . |
| 5 | I had recently stayed with him in Scotland : knowing him was a help , for I felt out of my milieu . |
| 6 | On the set , Dustin cast himself as the sensible person , whereas Mia was busy ‘ talking to the spirit of Mozart ’ , perhaps under the influence of André Previn ( still married to Dory Previn ) , the conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra , with whom she had recently fallen in love . |
| 7 | In this case , a 45 year old woman with a large family had recently moved into the area . |
| 8 | I had only just joined the school as my family had recently moved into the area . |
| 9 | One company had recently moved from the centre of London and had curtailed its use of libraries . |
| 10 | Vargas claimed that the company had recently called in the military to protect one of its sites against armed tribesmen . |
| 11 | Yet Grigori Medvedev , the chief engineer at Chernobyl in the 1970s , says in his recent book ( see page 125 ) that Soviet-made Geiger counters registered high levels of radiation on men who had not yet been into the zone , and nothing at all on those who had recently emerged from it . |
| 12 | She had recently emerged from a much-publicised divorce from Frank Sinatra and a month 's transcendental meditation with the guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India . |
| 13 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of April 16 reported that a number of Chinese provinces , including Jiangxi in the east , Hunan in the centre and Guangdong in the south , had recently suffered from serious floods . |
| 14 | She had recently quarrelled with Hilda , who was the only person who stood in the way of Viola imposing her own version of people and events on posterity . |
| 15 | Unknown to him Leopold had recently heard from another composer , Peter von Winter , who had crossed swords with Wolfgang in Mannheim , and was now maliciously taking his revenge . |
| 16 | I had recently heard from the Foreign Office that the Emperor had agreed to my undertaking this journey . |
| 17 | Having admired his free verse for some years I had recently ploughed through his somewhat monumental work , the first two volumes of ‘ Abraham Lincoln — The Prairie Years ’ and enjoyed it . |
| 18 | The first , signed by the outgoing Sandinista government and contra leaders , had agreed that an " effective and definitive ceasefire " was to take immediate effect and that the estimated 10,000-12,000 contras who had recently flooded into Nicaragua were to enter five security zones supervised by the 700-strong force of the UN Observer Group of Central America ( ONUCA ) and the staff of the International Commission of Support and Verification ( CIAV ) . |
| 19 | The proposal came through Branson 's youngest sister , Vanessa , who had recently gone into business as an art-dealer . |
| 20 | Harry had recently retired as a director of a multi-national company , and , apart from spending more time gardening , had not developed any replacement interests . |
| 21 | She gave the name of her father , who had recently retired with a substantial pension from a very senior appointment with a multi-national corporation . |
| 22 | One evening Rachel invited her to dinner , to meet some old family friends who had recently retired from academia and moved to London . |
| 23 | Dr Kenneth Duncan was a biologist who had recently retired from the top management of the National Radiological Protection Board . |
| 24 | Indeed , as Barry Rubin has pointed out in his seminal history Paved with Good Intentions , " Tens of millions of Iranians , particularly those living in the rural villages and even the many peasants who had recently migrated to the cities , accepted these clerical proclamations as guides top proper behaviour towards their King . |
| 25 | I was also immensely proud when Gavin Campbell , who fronted last week 's B B C D E C appeal , told me that words could not describe the tremendously high quality of Save The Children 's work in Malawi , Mozambique and Sudan , which he had recently visited in order to film for the D E C appeal . |
| 26 | He had recently travelled from Tasmania to Norway in search of the perfect 2,000 metres of flat water . |
| 27 | People at Etten had recently commented on his habit of walking along while staring straight ahead , and this was perhaps his protection against unfriendly glances . |
| 28 | As he made his way down the path from the manse between the round-shouldered granite gravestones , his face looked pink , as though he had recently shaved in scalding water . |
| 29 | Thereafter Anselm gave him such aid as he could against the despoilers of his see among the Norman barons who had recently penetrated into southern Wales as far as Pembroke . |
| 30 | The secretary of the planning committee that examined the project was an MI6 officer called George Blake who had recently returned to England after a long spell of captivity in Korea . |