Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as she realised what had happened she had jumped down guiltily and run home . |
| 2 | The work progressed well until it was discovered that the original iron braces inserted into the stonework by Scott had rusted very badly and expanded several inches , forcing the stonework upwards . |
| 3 | There were gaps last night — he had no idea the when of his visit to the hospital : if he had come straight home or stayed out drinking — that , try as he might , Parker could not remember . |
| 4 | She had just finished an article about pawnshops , the meat of which had been supplied by Rose , who had come round again and invited Sally-Anne to tea at the Buildings . |
| 5 | The uncomfortable feeling she 'd had earlier on had come back again and sat like a solid lead ball in her chest . |
| 6 | Even this , in its way a successful transaction , had done no better than limp lamely to its achievement . |
| 7 | Paul had done less well than had been expected of him at Balliol , not through his own fault . |
| 8 | Then he had dashed back inside and curled up in his seat with his hands covering his ears until she came to take him home . |
| 9 | For some reason it was restful to watch him lay the crochet-bordered cloth cornerwise on the polished table just so ; arrange the tea-tray , and bring in delicate , perfectly symmetrical sandwiches , and the Victoria sponge which , under his wife 's direction , he had made so beautifully and had set upon a spotless lace doily precisely in the centre of the dish . |
| 10 | It had been advised by my doctor that a year 's holiday in another land would build me up , as I had grown too quickly and had , as the phrase goes , " overgrown my strength " . |
| 11 | She did n't look as if she had slept too well and admitted as much . |
| 12 | They had got up early and gone for a swim in the reservoir , which was deserted and silk-smooth , with a pearly mist hovering a clear foot above its surface . |
| 13 | She had got as far as pulling out her suitcase , which looked scruffier than ever now that her eyes had accustomed themselves to the comfortable luxury of Luke Hunter 's flat , and laying it open on the bed before something inside her rebelled . |
| 14 | By the following winter Michael Horovitz 's New Departures magazine had advanced so far as to put on a live performance at the same venue . |
| 15 | By the end of August , Brusilov had advanced so far as to make replenishment of men and matériel difficult , often impossible . |
| 16 | He believed that the Scottish Secretary 's estimates were probably based on the operation of the system once it had bedded down rather than looking at initial assumptions . |
| 17 | Kelly had driven straight home and embarked on her own investigation . |
| 18 | He had driven home slowly and stopped twice on the way at the Hollybush at Newark and at the Merrie England . |
| 19 | Her head was now so bent that her dark hair had swung forwards so as to obscure her expression . |
| 20 | Player told the crowd that Olazabal was the best young player in the world and that he was quite impressed with the way he had scored so well while playing so poorly . |
| 21 | By the spring of 1993 at least nine republics or regions within the Russian Federation were insisting that their own laws took precedence over those of the Federation as a whole , and the Chechen republic had gone still further and declared itself a fully independent state . |
| 22 | Louise had gone so far as to allow him access to her papers and portfolio : he and Simon Scher were working on them now . |
| 23 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
| 24 | Indeed they had gone so far as to bring one Nicoleyva , from the Soviet Union to plead with British men and women to do just this , and open a second front in Europe . |
| 25 | Indeed , Francis Crick had gone so far as to suggest , at least half seriously , that all work in molecular biology and biochemistry on anything else should stop until E. coli was ‘ solved ’ — whatever might be meant by such a solution . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | By 1990 , IGBP had progressed as far as defining a set of seven core projects ( IGBP 1990 ) addressing these four themes . |
| 28 | Four years before his death , Chief Joseph had expressed the lifelong wish for which he had fought so persistently and waited so patiently : |
| 29 | They had worked together often and got on well . |
| 30 | The evening had started so well and ended so badly . |