Example sentences of "[conj] had [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish I could buy them myself , & had hoped to ; but the Speaker rejection makes it impracticable . |
| 2 | When she had aimed the bottle at Gazzer 's head , years of pent-up hurt and frustration had spilled over into violence : violence which she had previously directed against herself or had lived through only in her mind . |
| 3 | Between 1982 and 1986 , 137 of the top 1,000 quoted companies in the UK in terms of market value in 1982 were acquired or had merged with other companies … |
| 4 | It would have made no difference if the ironmonger 's door had been shut instead of open , and the ox had pushed its way through , or had gone through a plateglass window . |
| 5 | But again there was no reply , and she decided that Bertha was either out in the garden or had gone to town . |
| 6 | ‘ Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding article , the judicial or administrative authority of the requested state is not bound to order the return of the child if the person , institution or other body which opposes its return establishes that — ( a ) the person , institution or other body having the care of the person of the child was not actually exercising the custody rights at the time of removal or retention , or had consented to or subsequently acquiesced in the removal or retention ; or ( b ) there is a grave risk that his or her return would expose the child to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place the child in an intolerable situation . … |
| 7 | Bunny had finished his beer and the two ladies were still in the Ladies , or had escaped without him seeing how . |
| 8 | Because of their irregular participation in the labour market most seasonal workers would not have paid or had credited to them sufficient social security contributions to be eligible for the alternative , less generous state sickness benefit . |
| 9 | It would be reasonable to assume that such researchers had adopted new research interests , had changed occupations , or had moved to different localities . |
| 10 | It would be reasonable to assume that such researchers had adopted new research interests , had changed occupations , or had moved to different localities . |
| 11 | But while the Section d'Or represented the high point of the Cubist movement as it was presented to the public , and while the influence of Cubism daily became more powerful and widespread , many painters who had been Cubist , or had moved in Cubist circles , were already abandoning the style or using certain aspects of it as points of departure for developing completely new art forms . |
| 12 | It is also confusion between a proper assurance based on experience and the insight deriving from it , and the dogmatism which so easily follows but is distinct from it , and which insists that what we happen to know is the only thing that matters — what others have discovered or had revealed to them is unimportant . |
| 13 | How can anyone be so arrogant as to talk about this Creature , this Thing , as if they knew It , as if they had just had a letter from It or had chatted to It over the phone , when the It can not be conceived , understood , described , or even proved to exist . |
| 14 | Total duration of oral contraceptive use was unimportant , but a very low rate of endometriosis was found among women currently or recently taking the pill compared with women who had never taken it or had stopped for over 12 months . |
| 15 | Over 80 per cent of cases in one series were either suffering from or had suffered from other sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 16 | Archbishop Fisher and Archbishop Garbett of York started to look around for scholarly clergymen and hovered over various names , ail of whom taught then or had taught in universities . |
| 17 | Most record-company chiefs had risen to their position by one of two ways ; either they were ‘ record men ’ born and bred , who by their own taste and judgement had quietly built their own companies , or had risen through the sales and marketing ranks of some multinational to positions of prominence ; or they were lawyers or accountants , practised in the art of negotiation and creative bookkeeping . |
| 18 | Perhaps it 's a one-off you made yourself or had made for you , or maybe you run up spectacular gowns as a matter of course . |
| 19 | He wanted desperately to forget himself and who he was , or had hoped to be ; now , there was little hope , for the money he had carefully set aside for his expected purposes would not last for another year , and he had no employment . |
| 20 | The alleged libel is contained in a letter written by the defendant to the editor of the ‘ Manchester Examiner and Times ’ , which charged , as alleged by the statement of claim , that bribery and corruption existed or had existed in three departments of the Manchester City Council , and that the plaintiffs were either parties thereto or culpably ignorant thereof , and that the said bribery and corruption prevailed to such an extent as to render necessary an inquiry by a parliamentary commission . |
| 21 | The fact that Mains realised his image was changing , or had needed to be changed , will become a key part of Mains ' progress in the hottest seat in New Zealand rugby . |
| 22 | All rich , strange and remote , as if it had never happened or had happened to another person . |
| 23 | Or had chosen to . |
| 24 | It was unclear whether this was an independent Serbian initiative , or had resulted from an agreement with the JNA . |
| 25 | Some people had copies of public documents ( such as the agreement by the shaikhs of 1946 ) which they inherited or had copied for their own use and enjoyment . |
| 26 | Perhaps he had been knocked down , or had died of a heart attack . |
| 27 | At our conference in November we had a roll call of five hundred and six G M B members who 'd ha who were either killed in work or had died from work-related disease since May nineteen seventy nine those who attended may recall the emotional er |
| 28 | This would have been impossible unless we camped at the foot of Beinn Eibhinn , or had started from Loch Ossian at dawn , or were two gold medalist fell-runners . |
| 29 | Following a 36-hour offensive , the government claimed on Nov. 1 to have routed the rebels , but it was unclear whether they had returned to Uganda or had dispersed within Rwanda . |
| 30 | Helmholtz generalized what others had suggested , or had established in one context . |