Example sentences of "had [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must be dreaming , but surely she had only just gone to sleep . |
| 2 | For a start , he was driving far too fast , had only just swerved in time to avoid a cyclist , and was now desperately trying to overtake a pale blue Renault , when it was obvious there was n't room , and the road ahead was too winding to see if it was clear . |
| 3 | Germany predominating , they also shared the iron ore deposits of the Saar basin and Lorraine ( these last had only just come into use , because of the discovery by an English chemist , Thomas , of a way of making steel from iron ore with a high content of phosphorus ) . |
| 4 | Meanwhile I was to be foisted on my reluctant Aunt Harriet , whom I had only previously met at family gatherings . |
| 5 | The pack animals were large tawny-coloured beasts of a kind that Rostov had only ever seen in illustration . |
| 6 | ’ Tom , therefore , had to pass through various stages of purification , in which water is the essential element , before he can be reunited in heaven with Ellie , the well-brought-up little girl , into those bedroom in Harthover House he had so unceremoniously descended by way of the chimney . |
| 7 | Burleigh itself had been founded — no , started — between the wars , had survived the Depression ( as the South of England middle classes in general had so signally managed to coast blithely through the Depression ) and had offered over the years an alternative to the Grammar , Secondary Modern and Technical Schools of the town of Cullbridge . |
| 8 | This was obviously not Silvia , Guido 's cousin with whom Jeff had so unwisely fallen in love ! |
| 9 | Rather than punish him for the attempted rebellion , Henry gave Richard the task of quelling the very Aquitainian rebels from whom he had so recently looked for support . |
| 10 | In forty-four years the British had yet to recover fully from victory in the Second World War , even though the Germans and Japanese had so manifestly recovered from defeat . |
| 11 | Win Morgan had obviously just woken from sleep , her eyes were heavy and her thin grey hair ruffled . |
| 12 | When the history of the church was being researched a footnote in an 18th century volume identified a drawing of some stained-glass panels which had long since fallen into disrepair and had been replaced by plain lights . |
| 13 | From her bedroom window she could see the mountain rising up in a steep and slippery slope above a deep quarry , which had once been worked for limestone but had long since fallen into disuse . |
| 14 | After the plans had been shelved , the whole place had been leased out to various small-time manufacturers and warehousemen ; the broken-down sheds and godowns must still be the property of somebody , so too must be the piles of crates whose stencilled lettering had long since faded to pallor . |
| 15 | His wife and daughters had long since gone to bed . |
| 16 | The Airds had long since gone to bed . |
| 17 | No. 9 had long since gone to bed , so I crept up the stairs as quietly as I could . |
| 18 | Now this yarn had long since passed into history of ancient Highland folklore , and the WAAFs and airmen could have lived happily ever after . |
| 19 | A look of hopeless desolation , of almost animal acceptance was in their faces ; they had long since passed beyond defiance and hope ; their life was bounded by the ceaseless rotating of the treadmills which served the Robemaker 's Looms . |
| 20 | But as he tried to think of his work ( Charles had long since ceased to grace it with the name of ‘ his career ’ ) , his thoughts kept returning to the Steen situation . |
| 21 | The lake had long since disappeared from view . |
| 22 | The NARCOG budget had apparently not stretched to air-conditioning , and there were times when life in Filanta Court was almost insupportable . |
| 23 | In this case , the Law Lords chose to say that the GLC had not adequately taken into account the interests of the rate payers and that the interests of the users of public transport had been unduly preferred . |
| 24 | Madonna had not even appeared in court with him . |
| 25 | Perhaps Caro 's declaration that her stepbrother was very likeable had not just stemmed from partiality . |
| 26 | Although two thirds of companies had not previously used outside advice and counselling , 35% did say that they would consider it . |
| 27 | The house was full of trend-spotters , from gossip columnist Ivan Warner and irritable feminist Kate Armstrong to Treasury adviser Philip , worried about pension projections in an increasingly elderly society : from information vendor Charles Headleand to epidemiologist Ted Stennett , across whose horizon the science-fiction disease of AIDS was already casting a faint red ominous glow : from forensic psychiatrist Edgar Lintot ( who had not yet heard of AIDS , but who had heard rumours about changing views in high places on the sentencing of the criminally insane ) to Alix Bowen , worried on a mundane level about the future funding of her own job and on a less selfish level about the implications for the rehabilitation of female offenders of cuts in that funding : from theatre director Alison Peacock , anxious about her Arts Council subsidy , to Representative Public Figure , Sir Anthony Bland , the aptly named Chairman ( or so Ivan alleged ) of the Royal Commission on Royal Commissions , who was thinking that for various reasons he might have to resign , and from more bodies than one , before the jostling and the hinting pushed him into an undignified retreat . |
| 28 | It was unlikely that anything he might discover had not already come to light . |
| 29 | In all of this there existed an air of the cottage industry , with an informality that , consciously or not , took its measure from the example of its chairman , who continued to live and work — now with the added impedimenta of potties and baby-gates — on a houseboat on the Regents Canal ; who drove a second-hand Volvo ; and who had not long come into possession of a washing-machine . |
| 30 | By that time he had not only set in motion all the police retinue that attends on sudden and unexplained death , but also attended their ministrations throughout , seen the body examined , photographed , cased in its plastic shell and removed by ambulance to the forensic laboratory , delegated certain necessary duties , placated the police doctor and the pathologist , come to terms with the inevitable grief and rage which do not reach the headlines , and made dispositions within his own mind for the retribution which is so often aborted . |