Example sentences of "[conj] had [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such gigantic creatures could hardly be living in some remote spot unknown to European science , so they had either changed into something else or had become extinct . |
| 2 | This implies that the exiles enjoyed a certain status in his court , but need not mean that he envisaged actively espousing their cause , or had become dissatisfied about Emma 's union with Cnut . |
| 3 | In general , the women in the study had spent their wages on food , items for the children or had saved some money while their husband 's wages were spent on larger bills . |
| 4 | The obstacles included reduction of potential search areas as a result of house-building , roadworks and other developments ; anti-detectorist propaganda spread by professional archaeologists ; and ( most disheartening of all ) news that other detector owners had already searched these obviously attractive sites or had reached exclusive arrangements with their landowners . |
| 5 | She supposed afterwards that the bear-leader took pity on her , or had grown bored . |
| 6 | They were at rest just now , as if Daine were pausing in his expansion or had met some unforeseen check . |
| 7 | The 1977–81 material is thought to be essentially complete , except for the exclusion of 12% who had a previous history of malignancy or had undergone gastric surgery or who were given the drug for another diagnosis than a peptic ulcer related disease . |
| 8 | Although he was a fully qualified pilot , he never to my knowledge ( certainly not whilst he was with No 7 Squadron ) was ever captain of an aircraft ; he had been second pilot , or flown as mid- upper , or rear gunner or had taken some other crew function , but at the same time he would be researching and demonstrating some aspect of a project that he was currently engaged with at the Institute . |
| 9 | None of the patients were pregnant at the time of the study or had taken any drug which could potentially interfere with gall bladder motility . |
| 10 | Just as before , I had spent the intervening three months ‘ supporting ’ myself and this time I was so confident I was able to march into the hospital and into the consulting room certain that whatever I had or had had I was now on top of it . |
| 11 | Our intention was to ensure that genuine cases could be dealt with properly , such as those where the claimant had contributed or had produced fresh evidence that was relevant to a particular decision . |
| 12 | An amazing 98 of them stated they had lost inches from areas they had considered difficult to slim or had found impossible to reduce previously . |
| 13 | The implication is that the early Australians may have imported their basic mythology at some distant time or had experienced cultural intercourse with visitors from India in the not so remote past . |
| 14 | Perhaps the pilot had been delayed , or had experienced some difficulty in finding a taxi at the station . |
| 15 | The control under the Act covered all users of water , apart from those taking town supplies , whether they were pumping from a river or had installed extensive catchment works at their own expense . |
| 16 | None admitted intravenous drug abuse , nor had received antiviral or immunosuppressive treatment . |
| 17 | In the absence of clear evidence of this nature , the court is likely to infer that the squatter neither had had nor had claimed any intention of asserting a right to the possession of the land … |
| 18 | Shortages of labour in the immediate post-war period meant that this pattern of female industrial employment was not reversed overall , although it was in traditional basic industries , and any discussion of production post-1945 has to take account of a far larger North Shields female employed proletariat than had existed pre-War . |
| 19 | One or other is spoken by many more individuals than had learned either language at home as children . |
| 20 | The goalkeeper lay injured following a collision with a team-mate when Mikhailichenko gathered the loose ball on the byeline and squared it to Hateley for a goal easier come by for Rangers than had seemed possible in the early stages of the match . |
| 21 | Simple laboratory tests were able to show the acutely toxic effects of large doses of organochlorines , but it took years for high concentrations to accumulate in belugas that had consumed large quantities of lightly-contaminated food . |
| 22 | And having married , they could start their life in the little stone house at the end of the village that had stood empty since her mother 's death . |
| 23 | ‘ You remember you asked me to see if I could find out who it was that had sent that news item about Leila in to Al-Liwa . ’ |
| 24 | But it was not the earl 's death that had sent these influential couriers of de Burgh riding hard across country to Parfois , it was the fall of the coveted prize into the hands of Richard of Cornwall . |
| 25 | Everything changed in the late summer of 1958 when I went to " the convent " , Elmwood , my senior secondary school , and began to lose sight of all these children , now separated by age or by the hurdle of the " qualie " that had kept some back and relegated them to the junior secondary where school ended at fifteen , divided girls from boys and clever from less clever . |
| 26 | Very quickly , Polanski and Nicholson became darlings of the west coast film and rock-music communities , who were also selecting the new heroes of the screen — anti-heroes in fact — because it was old values that had kept those handsome , pristine hulks of the last generation at the top and old values were now strictly taboo amongst the young and trendy . |
| 27 | It was statistical analysis of trends in admissions to and discharges from mental hospitals that had led central government to plan for the redundancy of the hospitals . |
| 28 | They were starting to thump the floor now , and the chorus that had played low , while they gave out the stuff of how he was the son of Hasan b . |
| 29 | She wiped away a tear that had crept unnoticed on to her cheek . |
| 30 | A preliminary investigation is shown that uses a small scale statistical analyser to process text that had caused great problems for the rule-based system . |