Example sentences of "[adj] had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By that time , the French had already built an extensive network in North Africa , the Uganda Railway was under construction , the Germans had begun their railways in both Tanganyika and South West Africa , and the British had driven their railway through the Sudan as part of their reconquest of the upper Nile . |
| 2 | When the two sides met again at the hill station of Dalat in April 1946 it was obvious that the immediate disagreement was on the nature of the Indochina Federation and whether or not the Government of Vietnam , which the French had already recognized , was anything more than the Republic of Tonkin . |
| 3 | In fact , Mike Connolly , of Sainsbury , said the French had slightly increased their share of the supermarket group 's sales at the cheaper end , although other retailers had a different experience . |
| 4 | While these momentous events were unfolding in Belgium , on 7 August the French had improvidently launched their long-planned assault into Upper Alsace and on 14 August a greater force — the First and Second armies — thrust into Lorraine , south of Metz . |
| 5 | In point of time , however , one can find the specific civilian proposition from the US Ambassador in Paris a week earlier , on 11 December , not only to extend aid to Vietnam from the President 's special $75 m. fund but also recommending direct ‘ Marshall plan ’ financing for Indo-China : which the French had tentatively asked for at the beginning of 1949 . |
| 6 | The mundane details of the denunciations , the decrees against Jews using the telephone or travelling on the Métro and so on had brought home to him that the French had both suffered by and been complicit in the Holocaust . |
| 7 | Even before the discussions during and after the Delors Report ( April 1989 ) , the French had largely accepted the German demand . |
| 8 | The French had obviously suffered a debâcle but , in itself , the opening up of the frontier with China might only have been a prelude to Chinese invasion and ensuing catastrophe . |
| 9 | The French had hardly anchored and landed their cargo of arms , powder and money when , on 3 May 1746 , Commodore [ later Admiral ] Thomas Smith sailed into the loch , in HMS Greyhound , mounting 24 guns , accompanied by two smaller vessels , the Terror and the Baltimore . |
| 10 | He therefore concentrated his attention not on the Kent coast but on the Isle of Wight , where the French had actually landed in the past and which , once occupied , could serve as a base to paralyse and capture Portsmouth . |
| 11 | It has been suggested that the French had always regarded the Bourequats as a bit different . |
| 12 | The French had certainly prepared expertly . |
| 13 | The Royalists ( Chetniks ) under Mihailovitch had played a major part in anti-German resistance through much of the war , although increasingly they had been in direct conflict with Tito 's partisans , who saw them as the main enemy in establishing a Communist post-war Yugoslavia , and this had also led to them acting on occasion in concert with German forces . |
| 14 | This had also featured strongly in the campaign of former Californian Governor Jerry Brown , whilst Clinton advocated a " play or pay " model whereby businesses would either offer health cover to their employees or would pay mandatory contributions into a national health insurance fund to protect those without cover . |
| 15 | This had also happened elsewhere , for instance at Beishida . |
| 16 | This had also triggered an assertive economic nationalism amongst a small but significant sector of the Latin American elites . |
| 17 | Indeed , as a matter of political necessity at home , it had to assume ( and this had also weighed heavily with Roosevelt ) that a return to the " old power politics system " would be abhorrent to the great mass of Americans . |
| 18 | This had generally taken three forms , of which the largest was remittances to their families by the large number of Palestinians from the territories working in the Gulf and elsewhere . |
| 19 | This had already necessitated the disposal of books from its library , including a complete set of Audubon 's Birds of America . |
| 20 | This had already become a subject of crucial significance in England during the course of the seventh century . |
| 21 | This had already begun to gather steam with the publication in February 1988 of a White Paper which promised special protection for the nuclear industry . |
| 22 | Michael Jordan of Cork Gully and Timothy Beer of Peat Marwick McLintock said they had recovered £13.2m of the missing deposits but £5.5m of this had already gone to liquidation costs and legal fees . |
| 23 | Now this had already resulted , between nineteen twenty five and twenty seven , in a spontaneous explosion across much of the Chinese countryside . |
| 24 | This had already happened to many birds of prey and there were still farmers around who believed that eagles took live lambs , though the evidence was very slight . |
| 25 | In fact not much of this had yet occurred , though Ludens 's jealous mind presaged it . |
| 26 | In their view this had hopelessly inhibited the quest for the causes of crime in the case of classical criminology , and diverted attention away from social defence in the case of the neoclassicists ( since the latter were only interested in ‘ determinants ’ of crime in so far as they reduced the offender 's responsibility ) . |
| 27 | This had just opened the Sadler 's Wells Ballet 's first season at Covent Garden , to rapturous acclaim , but a month or two later John had decided that the costumes , ‘ although very gorgeous and great fun to wear are , in my opinion , far too ordinary for a ballet , they are more like costumes for a historical play … |
| 28 | Although the total numbers used in the USA are vastly higher , Rollin ( 1981 : 91 ) gives a figure of around 100 million for 1980 but this had reportedly declined by about 10 per cent by 1988 , the percentage breakdowns are remarkably similar . |
| 29 | This had only added to Brian 's sense of guilt , as if he had been prying , probing into something personal that was not his business . |
| 30 | Although it did not rule out a return to multiparty politics per se , the PNDC argued that in the past this had only bred " hatred , division and bloodshed " . |