Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was what they had expected of University , but had not hoped so soon to find . |
| 2 | He was angry with the hijackers and he was angry with himself because he had not moved fast enough to help Harald . |
| 3 | It was appropriate to the spirit of jazz ( and a useful antidote to the inevitable toe-curling staginess of awards ceremonies in general ) to present two bands of joint American-British instrumentalists who had not worked together before to see what would happen . |
| 4 | Lucien accepted this praise with downcast eyes , aware that the most accomplished of Mandru 's vibrancers were biting their knuckles in shame , because they had not practised diligently enough to emulate Lucien 's glowing performance . |
| 5 | They were interpreted as explaining why radiation had not spread out uniformly to create the newborn universe but had produced impurities , or primeval seeds , whose gravitational forces had attracted increasing amounts of matter to clump together to form galaxies , clusters of galaxies and stars . |
| 6 | The next great archbishop after Anselm was Thomas Becket , The monks of his day , like those of Anselm 's , believed that their archbishop had not tried hard enough to defend their rights . |
| 7 | Pebbles had not come this far to capitulate now , and at the wire she was a long-looking neck to the good . |
| 8 | This woman was not his wife , and she had not come out here to seek conversation . |
| 9 | He took up his claret , drank , and moved to an anecdote which he had found scarcely ever failed and would surely , he was convinced , see him through this supper party as the man of wide travel , wide curiosity , the aristocratic rover who had finally come back home to live by the more profound , more refined things of life . |
| 10 | Benjamin had just lived long enough to see the first of his children married : Ella Frances May Titford 's wedding had taken place on 26 August 1905 , in that very church in which her father was to collapse eight days later . |
| 11 | You know , it was all fenced they had n't lived there long had they ? |
| 12 | It could n't be the same Rover , because they 'd have recognised the car , although he hoped they had n't stopped long enough to get the number . |
| 13 | He had n't held out much hope , although he had agreed that the letter seemed to disprove the theory about a break-in that had gone wrong . |
| 14 | If he had n't come out here to find Chesarynth for me . |
| 15 | If he had indeed come up here determined to end his life , then he might have climbed over the guard rail , leaving a scrap of thread behind as he did so . |
| 16 | She had therefore grown up subconsciously feeling that nakedness was undesirable , even immoral . ’ |
| 17 | She had never spent so long taking her clothes off , but when she finally stood alluringly naked she saw that he was still looking at her mouth . |
| 18 | He held his shoulders well back and straight , and although Camille had never got close enough to make certain , she was convinced that he strode with his eyes half closed and a small , smart smile on his lips : unique , invincible , the splendid solitary leader of the procession , never to be challenged , usurped or tripped up . |
| 19 | We found that ministers had solemnly undertaken not only to repair The Grange , but also to open it to the public . |