Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cichlasomaniacs are all too familiar with the current confused taxonomy of their favourites , but for the uninitiated I had better explain the basic situation — even if you find taxonomy boring you may find this helpful in understanding the names currently applied to these fish . |
| 2 | It was the largest I had ever seen , split up into walled units , ten of them Ward had said , and when I reached the western limit of it I was face to face with the heaving bulk of the ocean . |
| 3 | ‘ Before all this I had never been a fisherman but I have now taken it up and am enjoying it , ’ he said . |
| 4 | I realized then just how many times , over the months , I had had evidence of this fear , and how careful I had always been to avoid doing or saying anything that could threaten the bastions he erected to guard his frail defences . |
| 5 | As acting Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces under Marcos , Ramos had led a military mutiny in support of Aquino , and it was this which had finally convinced Marcos that he could no longer continue to cling to office . |
| 6 | But his mother had nothing to do except care for him , and this she had blatantly failed to do . |
| 7 | On one occasion she threw him on the floor and on another she had deliberately broken his toys . |
| 8 | The gaps between were filled with people looking for seats , with others exchanging seats , and with some who had simply observed friends in other parts of the room and were on their way from one table to another for the purpose of making conversation . |
| 9 | All sorts of people , Cypriot and Lebanese , wandered in and out all the time , sometimes escorted , sometimes not , and although El-Jorr seemed to know most of them , there were clearly some who had simply been told to drop in and introduce themselves . |
| 10 | The post-1950 returnees were joined by some who had never before left the villages . |
| 11 | Midani , the wealthy Lebanese who had always believed that he had first option should Edwards ever decide to sell , after trying to buy the club himself , insisted more than once : ‘ United must not be caused embarassment , ’ and seemed to be the one participant in what became an increasingly shabby affair who was conscious that great dignity was at stake . |
| 12 | It was not a new idea , especially to the British who had long known the social significance of the right address or style of house . |
| 13 | Of the three quarters ( 78 per cent ) of those registering as unemployed who had previously been in work , only six per cent volunteered that they had become unemployed as the result of a temporary job coming to an end . |
| 14 | Like all his most important decisions , this one had both a long and a short history . |
| 15 | This one had certainly had it soft . |
| 16 | Names and schools have been freely suggested , but where one guess is as good as another one had better ignore them all . |
| 17 | Catering to the needs of the poor would hardly have doubled the number of London architects in twenty years ( from just over 1,000 to 2,000 — in the 1830s there had probably been fewer than one hundred ) , though building and renting slum property could be a very lucrative business , judged by the income per cubic foot of low-cost space . |
| 18 | Failing in this they had then strangled her and thrown the body downstairs to give the appearance of suicide . |
| 19 | He described the terrorists as ‘ discredited and unwanted ’ and said it was clear they had only one purpose — the triumph of evil . |
| 20 | From this it had all begun . |
| 21 | Part of his motive in undertaking to edit the Criterion had been to establish his own position within metropolitan culture and , since he had been a bank employee when he had begun the paper seventeen years before , in this he had triumphantly succeeded . |
| 22 | Cedric had been just too young for the war , and for this he had never forgiven Fate . |
| 23 | All this he had never known before . |
| 24 | His body took it in , took her in , and the desire which reared in him was the strongest he had ever experienced . |
| 25 | It was clear he had more to say and she might as well get it over with in one go . |
| 26 | Dating from around 1903 it had clearly been well played with as it was scratched and chipped and lacked a front wheel . |
| 27 | ‘ I found it had been cheaply dry-cleaned. he had obviously lent it to her . ’ |
| 28 | The longest he had ever stayed off was six months , at the first attempt . |
| 29 | He would give Joe the Fish the best send-off anyone had ever seen . |
| 30 | In the evenings in Hut 2 he had twice pulled Holly to a corner to tell him of his innocence . |