Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All his probing to the roots of religion had discovered simply the bankruptcy of those roots , or at least their apparent irrelevance to the job of finding a meaning in modern life . |
| 2 | The actual time of the start is difficult to arrive at , and is not important , but whatever the historical facts may be , it can be taken as fairly certain that the misuse of religion had become well established at the time of the advent of Jesus Christ . |
| 3 | Ace sensed that its forward speed had slowed too , and that its course was veering rightwards . |
| 4 | Speed had dropped back and Wallace moved upwards in the second half . |
| 5 | Judi had read practically everything her sister had ever written , including an uncharacteristic series of pieces on tin toy collecting , sofa beds and other arcane subjects published under a pseudonym ( Angela Buonfiglia ) taken from one of their father 's plays . |
| 6 | Her daughter-in-law was forced to chat on brightly to Greg about whether the sponge had turned out well , and whether Greg liked ginger nuts . |
| 7 | Six years ago she had been tongue-tied in his presence , and terrified by the strength of her reaction to him , her fear manifesting itself physically , stopping the breath in her throat , tensing her muscles and making her nerves leap every time he moved or spoke to anyone , and the rare occasions on which his glance had strayed idly in her direction , it had actually hurt her . |
| 8 | Until that moment no single glance had suggested more than shared pleasure in the lake by night , two friends at swim . |
| 9 | Late in March Mahmoud showed up for the first time since the Yanks had moved out . |
| 10 | The Association had become well known during the occupations , and its membership increased dramatically . |
| 11 | Quigley had sat there while the good people from the Mutual Life provident Association had come round and told my mum the news about her death benefit . |
| 12 | Although the countries of the European Free Trade Association had worked out trade arrangements with the Community , recent decisions of the European Court ruled them to be incompatible with the treaty of Rome . |
| 13 | Mr Forsyth said that the tenants ' association had tried hard to improve the quality of life for all concerned . |
| 14 | as if her thinking had conjured up her sister , the door opened again and Jessie came in , saying in a low voice , ‘ Mother 's in a pet . |
| 15 | However , once peoples had chosen not to exercise their right to secede , they should join a fully centralized State . |
| 16 | Her skirt had ridden up and she clung to his shoulders convulsively as she yielded to the sweet torment of his long fingers stroking over her thighs . |
| 17 | The horse soared through the foul-smellimg smoke and the General saw a bayonet reach towards the animal 's belly , but he slashed down with the sword , knocking the bayonet aside , and suddenly the horse had landed safely beyond the furniture and was running free of the smoke . |
| 18 | To begin with , the vets had to wait until a horse had broken down , and then sift through their collection of its graphs to see if and when they could first detect a change . |
| 19 | The Guv'nor told me to ride Ile de Bourbon in the big race telling me that I knew what he could do and that win was the biggest of my career so far but I 'll always remember Lester who had finished nearly last padding disconsolately into the weighing room and asking me ‘ Did you know your horse had improved so much ’ . |
| 20 | Ahead , her father 's horse had pecked slightly on landing , throwing his rider up his neck . |
| 21 | According to some critics , the ‘ Heshang ’ authors had gone too far and there were signs that a backlash might be imminent . |
| 22 | Previously the authors had carried out research on paraprofessional social service personnel in their own two countries — Israel and the USA ( Brawley and Schindler , 1972 ; Brawley , 1975 ; Schindler , 1980 ; 1982 ) . |
| 23 | The Detective-Sergeant 's keen ears had picked up the dripping tap in the bathroom . |
| 24 | His once magnificent ruff of side-whiskers had been slicked down against his cheeks like wet fur and his ears had flattened apprehensively against his head . |
| 25 | And the implants had worked just fine , thank you . |
| 26 | By 1819 , if Shelley is to be taken as a reliable guide , Wordsworth 's stock had gone down and down : ‘ He was at first sublime , pathetic , impressive , profound ; then dull ; then prosy and dull ; and now dull — oh so very dull ! it is an ultra-legitimate dulness ’ ( Dedication to Peter Bell the Third ) . |
| 27 | Sanctions meant he could no longer import spares but the value of his existing stock had increased tenfold . |
| 28 | The fire brigade had to bring in their rescue boat normally used on the Thames to ferry 60 stranded people while the local council issued sandbags to those still hoping to keep the water at bay . |
| 29 | Meanwhile Linton had got up from his armchair and gone out to join Cathy and Hareton . |
| 30 | On the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros dam and hydroelectric power station project on the Danube , Hungary had on May 25 renounced the 1977 agreement on environmental grounds [ see pp. 38843 ; 38939 ] , but work on the Slovak side had gone ahead , and the facility was to begin partial operations in early November , according to a CSTK report on Sept. 10 , with construction due for completion by the end of 1992 . |