Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The compliment had foolishly pleased her . |
| 2 | His glance had never left her as she 'd tapped towards him across the mirror-like floor , dark eyes sweeping her from head to toe to take in her black high-heeled shoes , black stockings and the stark simplicity of the black wool dress skimming her knees , with a sardonic half-smile . |
| 3 | What had changed , he said , was that the association had finally accepted his assurance that patients would get all the drugs they needed under the new system . |
| 4 | The association had also identified very clearly in its submissions to the Labour Court that , whereas its long term aspirations were encapsulated in the original claim , the immediate requirement for our Bank Assistant members is for a real and reasonable increase in pay to meet the urgent needs of today . |
| 5 | Maxim 's thinking had just begun to catch up with why two armed watchmen — the ones outside his own flat had n't been armed — had suddenly turned up in the service road of Neptune Court . |
| 6 | But though he resumed his speech as though the interruption had never happened , his gaze , holding hers for a moment longer , had turned cold and cynical . |
| 7 | She thought it was Swimmer of Lakes for a moment , but her horse had already returned to open land and was quietly grazing to the east . |
| 8 | The horse had barely stepped on to the gravelly riverbed at the edge of the ford when it stumbled , almost falling to its knees . |
| 9 | Saying er , I was telling it the other day , she said you could spend all that money on and she said , we went to see this horse , it was years ago before they got their own , she said the horse had just had its foal and it was like he 'd spent a thousand pound on the , the actual stallion yeah and it come out |
| 10 | Both the top and bottom doors were flung back and the great war horse had apparently galloped away pursued by grooms . |
| 11 | The horse had gradually slowed as it tired , until the animal now moved forward at a resigned walk . |
| 12 | Unknown even to the operators , some of the rods of uranium fuel which were supposed to fall from the back of the reactor into a storage pond had instead tumbled into the channel which led up to the tall chimney . |
| 13 | It was either a penalty , or a goal kick ( if the ref thought that the forward had intentionally got tangled up ) . |
| 14 | The US side had previously wanted these payments to be considered like other farm supports , and reduced accordingly , in the framework of GATT 's current Uruguay Round . |
| 15 | When the fixed horizontal tailplanes were examined it was found that they had failed symmetrically and the upper skin on each side had completely separated in major sections . |
| 16 | Subsequent reports suggested that the Soviet side had also agreed that the US-made Trident missile , scheduled to replace Polaris as part of the United Kingdom 's nuclear arsenal , would be excluded from the terms of a START treaty . |
| 17 | The Central North Side had strongly organised if partial representation since the 1960s when the Mexican War Streets area began to experience small scale renovation . |
| 18 | Neither side had publicly acknowledged the reported existence of a secret UN document proposing a post-ceasefire division of the country into two zones , one guerrilla-controlled and the other army-controlled . |
| 19 | Apparently ruling out any form of legislative veto for minority groups ( a point on which the government side had long insisted ) , the document was nevertheless seen as containing a notable concession in its acceptance of a bicameral parliamentary system . |
| 20 | The US side had hitherto accused the Soviet military of evading the impact of CFE force reductions , in particular by transferring tank units east of the Urals ( i.e. simply removing them from the area covered by the treaty , rather than destroying them — see pp. 38027 ; 38122 ; 38217 ) . |
| 21 | The Soviet side had originally sought greater flexibility , with minimum purchases as low as 6,000,000 tonnes ; actual purchases in 1989 , however , had been a record 21,700,000 tonnes . |
| 22 | The tangled hedgerows that grew on either side had almost strangled it into being permanently closed . |
| 23 | Eighty torrid minutes later Michael Bradley 's Irish side had totally re-written the script with a performance of unremitting passion and fury . |
| 24 | The Soviet side had initially responded with a counterproposal involving ceilings for both sides of either 225,000 or 195,000 troops for Europe as a whole ( thereby calling on the United States either to accept an imbalance of 30,000 troops in Central Europe or to withdraw some or all its forces from the other countries ) , but accepted the original proposal after the US side had rejected this alternative formula . |
| 25 | Six years ago the only computer I 'd used was some horrid games machine a girlfriend had once become obsessed with . |
| 26 | The Hussars drew their sabres to drive the unarmed men back into the river , but French artillery had already closed on the southern bank and , as soon as the Hussars went into the trot , the first roundshot slammed across the water . |
| 27 | Indeed , this sexual labelling had less to do with actual sexual practices than with the extent to which young women 's behaviour conformed to the popular ideas of ‘ femininity ’ — for instance by the use of swear words or loud behaviour , ( this is more fully discussed in Sue Lees , 1986 ) . |
| 28 | Her mummy had once shown her photographs of herself as a Brownie many years ago , and Angela had laughed at the funny straw hat and long frock she had worn . |
| 29 | Labour voters who observed the anti-Labour virulence of the SNP campaigns are puzzled as to why a few Labour MPs and trade union luminaries have made it their mission to resuscitate a force that the electorate had efficiently reduced to three seats . |
| 30 | In addition , the steering had developed an ominous creak at parking speeds and the rear silencer on the exhaust had again come adrift . |