Example sentences of "[adv] had [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much had happened since he last saw her . |
| 2 | So much had happened since — the Marilyn Duxbody fiasco , the Hatherley trip , Pascoe 's death — that it seemed far longer . |
| 3 | Maybe he thought that since there 'd been sixty-odd quid in my bag there 'd be more on my person , and he only had to wait till I nodded off and then he 'd nick it and away . |
| 4 | The jurors only had to consider whether the woman had consented or not to the intercourse taking place . |
| 5 | one Friday , having done my weekend cleaning and baked a batch of bread during the day , I hoped for a good night 's rest , but I scarcely had retired before my labour began . |
| 6 | Some tearful householders whose homes were wrecked just had to cope as best they could . |
| 7 | Just had to leave because Dad says If you 're not working there for eight and sixpence a week , when you had to leave one job at twelve and six . |
| 8 | Which in the sea was pretty futile really , I mean you just had to go where the sea took you . |
| 9 | ‘ What … ? ’ she began , and just had to laugh when , not waiting for her to finish , Ven supplied her with his country 's name for the dish . |
| 10 | It was the first food that any had had since arrested . |
| 11 | The Marshal crossed the sunny fore-court towards the shadow of the stone archway and into his office , where he could take off the dark glasses which he always had to wear when the sun was out . |
| 12 | I have already remarked on the poem 's opening where Mendel and Rendel Harris combine to reincarnate past voices , plant breeding and anthropology shedding a new light on the dead — from the Chaucer of the ‘ Prologue ’ to James Thomson and the Fitzgerald whose stanza More had quoted when writing about the growth of trees and flowers in an essay of ‘ Saint Augustine ’ : . |
| 13 | Because you knew that they both had to agree before anything was done . |
| 14 | Time was , he remembered , when she had attended the Greek Orthodox Church , where he also had gone when small , but its splendour had palled when she had realized that more fashionable people belonged to the United Church . |
| 15 | But we also had to leave because we chucked Wally out of the band . |
| 16 | There had been times , after all , while he 'd been serving his stretch in prison that he really had wondered whether he had hallucinated it all ; wondered whether he was losing his mind . |
| 17 | Eva had become eccentric : when a decision was needed Ted and I often had to wait while she retired upstairs and meditated on the exact shape of the conservatory or the dimensions of the kitchen . |
| 18 | This was n't supposed to happen — but then , nothing today had happened as it had been supposed to . |
| 19 | This meant that actions to reduce emissions of sulphur dioxide within Brussels had only limited success in reducing smog levels and the city simply had to wait until the extensive smog bank drifted away or began to be dispersed . |
| 20 | Earlier in the week Bernhard Langer almost had to quit because he was running a high temperature . |
| 21 | If they decided the question in the affirmative , they then had to decide whether the prejudice was sufficient to outweigh the ‘ parental factors ’ . |
| 22 | Inevitably , he had flooded the engine , and then had to wait before he could try again , and still no sign of life . |
| 23 | He did not think that he judged wisely to accept , because he accepted another job only two years after he was appointed and then had to withdraw because he was found not old enough to be legal . |
| 24 | Barry had been divorced for twelve years , had been a member of Dateline but then had moved because of work . |
| 25 | Shearer then had to clear after Dickins failed to hold another Cook kick . |
| 26 | There 's one in the window I 'm just gon na have a look , cos I never had noticed when I came in this morning |
| 27 | And , talking of justice and lobsters , I understand that a court of law recently had to decide whether lobsters were insects or " animals " ( it bore upon whether people should be allowed to boil them alive ) . |
| 28 | The chief minister of Maharashtra recently had to resign when a court indicted him for using his powers to speed up cement deliveries to people who gave money to his private foundation . |
| 29 | I 've got to do that twice a day which I did n't know we actually had to do when I started it . |
| 30 | Erm If it 's if you want some kind of a guideline I think last year I ca n't remember but I think we I think last year we actually had to ask because the parish could n't support it totally . |