Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A couple of years younger , Baker looked older , and had already appeared in a film . |
| 2 | They had already sent in a force of specially trained jungle fighters to hunt the guerrillas . |
| 3 | Most dealers had already written in a premium for the premiership of Pierre Beregovoy , whose stint as finance minister made him well known to the business community . |
| 4 | Queen Margaret had already left in a blaze of colour , escorted by Catesby and Agrippa , riding along Ropery , then Vintry Street into Thames Street , where she would meet a troop of her brother 's royal serjeants at Castle Baynard . |
| 5 | Jacques had already put in a plea to this effect in December 1954 , when asked by the National WEA officers to state his ideal requirements at the time of negotiations with the Ministry following the Ashby Report . |
| 6 | George Taylor , spokesman for Presto stores , said the company had already put in a security barrier and were about to finalise talks with businesses which share the car park . |
| 7 | She turned on Constanza ; Constanza lost her head , she struck back , she said the things she had not said in a life-time , the things that should not be said . |
| 8 | Mistress Southwell was a Roman Catholic and with several others sought to surround the events of the Queen Elizabeth 's last illness and death with ill-omens and to suggest that she had not died in a state of grace ’ . |
| 9 | I had not looked in a mirror for a long time , not closely . |
| 10 | What is worse , the ‘ sixties had not resulted in a spate of psychopathic killers trying to emulate the movies , but films like ‘ The Exorcist ’ resulted in many people imagining they were possessed . |
| 11 | In 386 Ambrose moved relics he had just discovered in a Milan suburb to one of the new churches he had built to ring the growing city with prestigious sanctuaries ; it was a well thought out act . |
| 12 | First it was a little bit of yellow fish for her landlady 's cat — the poor thing was half starved — then it was a bulb for her bedside lamp , and lastly she remembered that a friend of hers had just opened in a play in Manchester and there just might be a review in the evening paper . |
| 13 | She had always lived in a crowd , other people 's dramas and her own played out through a thin wall for the benefit of anyone who chose to listen . |
| 14 | She had always lived in a town , with a street light shining outside the window , so the first thing she hastened to buy was a chair on which to place a candle , beside her bed . |
| 15 | He realized with a shock that they reminded him of steers he had once seen in a railroad siding back home in Richmond , Virginia , crowded uncomprehendingly in trucks bound for the slaughterhouse . |
| 16 | One thing William did know was that Uncle Titch had once worked in a circus . |
| 17 | Looking up , he saw the astral form of Gunda , a shepherdess he had attempted to seduce and then killed , with Wolfhead , the faithful boarhound he had also killed in a fury . |
| 18 | Downing Street had originally put in a request for the Bridal Suite , only to discover that Jeffrey Archer had got in first . |
| 19 | ‘ I should n't think he wants to , ’ Perkin remarked as I had n't answered in a rush . |
| 20 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 21 | MacLane had n't shaved in a week and listed ‘ sweating ’ as his hobby in Who 's Who ; Bellamy radiated open-faced friendliness and ever so slightly dumb honesty . |
| 22 | She persevered for fifty pages before admitting that she had n't taken in a word . |
| 23 | The west Belfast woman had even appeared in a Northern Ireland Office ‘ Crack Crime ’ television and billboard advertising campaign . |
| 24 | So she did washing for William van Straubenzee , one of Sarah 's old boyfriends , and ironed the shirts of Rory Scott , who had then starred in a television documentary about Trooping the Colour , and Diana regularly stayed for weekends at his parents ' farm near Petworth , West Sussex . |
| 25 | After Hitler had again suggested in a speech in mid-March 1941 that Britain would be conquered and the war ended finally in Germany 's favour within the next year , people were heard to remark that ‘ the Führer had never held out a prospect of something which had not happened ’ , and that one could therefore unquestionably rely upon the imminent defeat of Britain and end of the war . |
| 26 | Adam Diggory had grumblingly moved in a clothes-press and a table for Miss Kyte 's personal use . |
| 27 | Only that morning she had stood , she , Kitty Bainbridge , had actually stood in a queue for nail polish , and when it came to her turn there was no more left . |
| 28 | And Ewen himself , for all his outgoing charm , had certainly acted in a way that gave pause for thought . |
| 29 | Ellie was now eighteen years old , and in all those years she had never travelled in a taxi-cab , nor had she ever been into the heart of Boston . |
| 30 | I had never taught in a classroom before but , although daunting at first , it turned out to be education for me as well as the students . |