Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was five long years since any man — this man — had intimately touched her like this ; five years in which she 'd held at bay these deep torrents of emotion , which would not now be denied . |
| 2 | He had not said that he believed her , had only touched her for that fleeting moment , but she knew what she had felt . |
| 3 | The Viennese modernists , Klimt , von Hofmannsthal , Hoffmann , Moser , had only joined them in this acceptance . |
| 4 | And seeing Nicole had only reminded her of that fact . |
| 5 | ‘ Come back , come back ! ’ she shouted , but he pretended that he had not heard her at all . |
| 6 | For all her self-confidence , her upbringing had not prepared her for that . ’ |
| 7 | His education had not prepared him for this in any way . |
| 8 | Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control . |
| 9 | He had formed his own view of Jake although Harry had not coloured it by any comments other than the barest fact . |
| 10 | Nora had not seen her like that since the day she and Sam had arrived at Coutances . |
| 11 | Though Old Red had looked at me so keenly , I would be prepared to swear on oath that he had not seen me at all . |
| 12 | Since then , he had returned only when his father was down at the harbour overseeing the refitting of the Russell , staying out all night and sleeping rough , and for the last three days she had not seen him at all . |
| 13 | Police broke in after neighbours had not seen him for several days . |
| 14 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 15 | Ramsay had not seen him since that day at Musselburgh when the good Regent Moray died and Seton had been sent off to Fife to try to hamper Balliol 's landing at Kinghorn , a gallant but unsuccessful endeavour in which Seton had been wounded . |
| 16 | Eden wrote : ‘ After three months without a comment from the Prime Minister ’ ( he had not seen him during this period , which included the ‘ internationalization ’ of the Spanish Civil War ) , ‘ I found this an astonishing doctrine , ’ |
| 17 | I had not seen them for some time . |
| 18 | For the life of her she could n't say the expected thing and it hurt with surprising depth that this man had known her father when she herself had not known him at all . |
| 19 | As she uttered these words she thought they sounded snide and insinuating , sarcastic even , though she had not meant them like that . |
| 20 | Young Daniel 's death had been as great a tragedy , but had not taken him like this . |
| 21 | So he had not failed her after all ! |
| 22 | He had not mentioned it in all this week that Hotspur had spent with him at the abbey , had asked no questions but the most current politenesses about his stay and his journey , and had shown no interest at all in the ceremony from which he had come . |
| 23 | She saw that he had changed colour , and , always affected by other people 's feelings , she now experienced some of his embarrassment and wished she had not put him in this position . |
| 24 | Mitch looked stunned and she felt an incredible burst of guilt that she had not told him about this girl 's problem . |
| 25 | It was as if , gasping out his last breath , that battered , bitter and vindictive old man had somehow injected him with some small portion of his own bitter resolve . |
| 26 | Rincewind glanced around quickly , in case some leakage of enchantment from the Magician 's Quarter across the river had momentarily transported them to some other place . |
| 27 | Papa had always protected her from such things . |
| 28 | I had been four years at an evangelical theological college but no one had ever put it like that to me . |
| 29 | Moreover , this particular photograph had been brought to the lab only that day , and no one had ever coupled it with any sort of training . |
| 30 | He had once questioned her on this point , saying that a man of his age preferred younger women to be seen out with . |