Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Considering this question , with some surprise Robbie realised that had never been her aim — until she 'd met Fen Marshall . |
| 2 | Angie Bowie : ‘ I never realized and had never been involved in who did what , but I suppose that amounts to , if one wants to look at it from Ken 's point of view , being the fly in the ointment , or of one wants to look at it from a real point of view as , in terms of property settlement and management , that I was being David 's manager at that particular time , because it was possible for me to advise him to do something about the things that really troubled him artistically . |
| 3 | He knew little more about her now than when they had first encountered each other in the abbey ruins on a blustery August evening less than six weeks earlier , had for a minute stood and gazed and had then moved silently towards each other in a wordless , amazed recognition . |
| 4 | She had a fistful of tiny flowers , and made me wait patiently while she described them all , making up her own names when she forgot or had never learned the real ones . |
| 5 | But then something happened that had simply not happened with an previous ‘ miracle ’ technology the people demanded a voice . |
| 6 | Later , in the 1860s , Persigny remarked to the Emperor that the charges on the civil list were enormous — to which Napoleon III replied that had so much money not been allotted in the first place he would have been unable to fulfil all the demands which were made upon him . |
| 7 | She sometimes wondered afterwards whether Brigadier Smithson appreciated or had even organised the situation . |
| 8 | He was lonely and broke and had already barged in for the loan of a cupful of Quaker oats . |
| 9 | With regard to points three and four above , the prosecution has the choice of proving that the tippee either knew or had reasonable cause to believe the stipulated circumstances . |
| 10 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 11 | ‘ Especially to those under the enchantment of love , ’ he answered , and Fabia experienced a need to discover if Ven himself knew or had ever known that enchantment . |
| 12 | Wrapped up and we thought that had perhaps been |
| 13 | One or more drops of blood must have fallen or been spilt from the weapon before Harry fell and had then been smeared along the carpet as the body was dragged against the wall . |
| 14 | Findings from the present study suggest that once people had become established in the homes their quality of life , in the opinion of their relatives , was similar to that of other people who died and had never been in such homes . |
| 15 | Pressing his hand against her bosom or kissing his fingers softly and reverently , she told him that she knew and had always known that only she could make him happy , that there was already a mystical bond between them and that if she could not soon feel his arms about her and his lips upon her own , she would sink away into despair . |
| 16 | According to the assessments of relatives , friends , and neighbours who answered the questions , the quality of life of people who had been in a residential home for a year or more before their death was similar to that of others who died but had never been in such a home . |
| 17 | When it ended in the mid 1960s , to be replaced in quick succession by sociology , anthropology , and linguistic theory , it turned introspective in its defeat , wasting its energies on the grimly unavailing task of seeking , and never finding , a theoretical basis for what it did or had once done . |
| 18 | Whoever wrote that had never had unpleasant memories to drown , thought Huy , or been confronted with truths too horrible to face . |
| 19 | Reality is a virgin whose virtue we all want to believe in , and , at one and the same time , an old whore who we 've all had and had and had again , until our eyes and ears are like genitals that have been rubbed raw . |
| 20 | It amazed her that she had not thought that the minute she had met him , or maybe she had but had simply denied it to herself . |