Example sentences of "had [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I had not only come to faith . |
| 32 | … this mirrored the belief that medical science had not only triumphed over disease and illness in the past but would continue to do so in future . |
| 33 | It was plain to her that her therapist was meticulous , thoughtful and highly trained — it was undeniable — but Scarlet increasingly found all that beside the point because her malaise had not significantly decreased with treatment , and worrying about the cost of it kept her awake at night . |
| 34 | And second , it appears that the latter withdrew his approval of the initial closure proposal because the Education Committee had not fully complied with government regulations on closure procedure . |
| 35 | Even if they were , they had not necessarily fallen from grace . |
| 36 | Fortunately we had just about recovered in time for the practical session . |
| 37 | No doubt we should have objected if we had ever seriously thought about action . |
| 38 | In 1970 , an all-party Committee of the Council had been set up to examine the future of the tramway ; rising costs had once again called into question the future of winter tramway operations . |
| 39 | Meanwhile the return of a Labour Government in 1974 had once again brought into question the status of Direct Grant schools , and it was announced in Parliament on 11th March that it was intended to phase out the system over a period of seven years , commencing in September 1976 . |
| 40 | The balance had once more swung from centralisation to decentralisation , but the attempt to make doctors and nurses more accountable for resource decisions continued . |
| 41 | Andrew Ridgley and I had both just come from school about nine months before we took off with WHAM ! |
| 42 | Writs for the holding of the regard in forests such as Sherwood , Galtres , pickering , Inglewood and Rutland continued to be sent out from the Chancery during the fifteenth century , but the Forest Eyre , which would have punished offences revealed by the regard , had now almost fallen into desuetude . |
| 43 | As she was drugged up to the eyeballs on arrival , she had n't yet gone into shock but they were expecting it and , if she survived , then miracles could be performed . |
| 44 | She would n't be here now , dressed to the nines for an evening that would be about as thrilling as an attack of flu , if she had n't again responded in anger to her emotions . |
| 45 | He knew he would n't be able to and now , as he swung himself out of bed , Ray Plummer wondered why he had n't just sat in front of the television until the time came . |
| 46 | He must have written it as soon as Barbara had telephoned the news and had sent it round by one of his nurses who , in a hurry to get home after night duty , had n't even stopped to hand it in but had slipped it through the letter box . |
| 47 | He 'd said too much — and I had n't even begun to cotton on . |
| 48 | Lorton had n't even thought of lunch . |
| 49 | We had almost completely forgotten about Christmas — but at least the kitchen was finished . ’ |
| 50 | The Dalriadic Scots and the Britons , probably of Strathclyde , whom Ecgfrith had almost certainly driven into alliance with the Picts in 685 through his claims to supremacy over them ( see above , p. 100 ) , regained their independence , and the Picts threw off the overlordship of the northern Anglian king and recaptured territory formerly held by the Angles ( HE IV , 26 ) . |
| 51 | Sadly , the last time I saw it , which was some years ago , it had pretty well faded beyond recognition . |
| 52 | She was carrying a shopping bag and had evidently just returned from town . |
| 53 | I was furious , and said the guy had certainly not caddied for Cotton when he won , and that in his later years Cotton had had several caddies . |
| 54 | Denis , in his nine years in the United States had never really taken to baseball . |