Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wijeratne 's other enemies included the Janata Vimukti Peramuna ( JVP ) , the Sinhalese group whose southern-based insurgency he had effectively destroyed in a ferocious campaign in late 1989 [ see pp. 37042 and 37353 ] , and the gambling industry , a casino operator having been deported in February . |
| 2 | ( Over the past two days , the platoons had all competed in a punishing forced march against the clock , followed by a shooting match . ) |
| 3 | It was as if two distant times had suddenly met in a single second and two different women in a single gesture . |
| 4 | Enough remained to show that the northern one was at least g by 7. 5 m ( 292 by 242 ft ) , with two rooms of unequal size at the back , while its southern counterpart , of which only the rear 2.5m ( 8 ft ) was recovered , had apparently lain in a walled compound measuring 13 by 6 m ( 42½ by 19½ ft ) . |
| 5 | He had thought that children were supposed to be sharp and un-sentimental and though Emmie had not written in a sentimental way exactly , she had written about her family as if they were perfect . |
| 6 | As Mr Cardinal had indicated , M. Dupont had not arrived in a good temper ; I can not recall now all the various things that had upset him since his arrival in England a few days previously , but in particular he had obtained some painful sores on his feet while sightseeing around London and these , he feared , were growing septic . |
| 7 | Nevertheless the subordination of science to theology had not resulted in a sterile fusion . |
| 8 | There was widespread relief that the wave of accusations of corruption against the government had not resulted in a military takeover . |
| 9 | Perhaps he was still sleepy , or had just indulged in a stultifying beetle meal . |
| 10 | He had just materialized in a certain top-secret room in the bad company of Dee and Kelley . |
| 11 | Although I had always lived in a freezing cold damp house and spent a lot of my own childhood in hospital and even remember my own mum referring to our flats as pneumonia houses , in my ignorance I had never made the connection between our living conditions , ill health and the social and environmental climate . |
| 12 | We had always lived in a healthy country , where the mountains were high and the water was cold and clear . |
| 13 | It was the first time that the national team had ever trained in a black area . |
| 14 | A similar-aged comparison group of women was found who had also participated in a previous study . |
| 15 | Herbie 's face had also lit in a sly smile as Mary had passed . |
| 16 | Municipal men had traditionally operated in a service-inspired environment and were strongly committed to the spread of electricity use , especially to domestic consumers . |
| 17 | A police graduate I met at a seminar on ‘ Research into the Police ’ , which we had both attended in a private capacity and without force blessing or financial assistance , later wrote to me : |
| 18 | There was an expression on her face I had n't seen in a long time . |
| 19 | She read the first page of a review copy of the new novel by a Royal Shakespeare Company actor and put it down again when she realized she had n't taken in a single word . |
| 20 | I came to the school with considerable amateur experience of Shakespeare with the Oxford University Dramatic Society and had even played in a real theatre in Oxford . |
| 21 | He had simply run in a direct line from their holes to his own , passing on his way through the narrow strip of woodland that lay between . |
| 22 | Henry Parris , tutor-organiser for Northamptonshire who had previously served in a similar capacity in Yorkshire North District , also acknowledged that most of his organising work could have been done by voluntary members , given the time and opportunity to travel around the county . |
| 23 | Fiercely anti-Vichy , Ika 's family had considered it patriotic to have duplicate ration-books ; these they had conveniently retained in a post-Vichy world , and so they wanted for little . |
| 24 | I remembered that they had never flown in a light aircraft before today ; I shuddered to think of what could happen if they panicked . |
| 25 | One shaikh said he had never intervened in a notorious internal quarrel because ‘ they would say I was a shaikh ’ . |