Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merlini , three attempts were made to serve documents on a defendant in Italy , trying three different addresses and two different names ; on each occasion the defendant could not be located or had already moved on . |
| 2 | Moreover , recent surveys have suggested that not so many members of these societies are ‘ literate ’ by the standards expected than had previously been assumed : in the UK it is now held that over one million people have an acquaintance with literacy that is insufficient for the demands made on them by this kind of society ( DES , 1980 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ the manufacturer had known that the fuel tank on its subcompact Pinto was defectively designed and had consciously decided to proceed with production in spite of the potential hazards . |
| 4 | It is alleged that Mr Buckley was severely injured in the explosion and that Sutherland knew he was trapped and had not told the emergency services that anyone was in the blazing house . |
| 5 | He had called it " unconstitutional " only on Aug. 21 , and claimed that he had resigned and had not been dismissed . |
| 6 | The rest of the room was sparsely decorated and had only two wooden-backed chairs and a small steel-legged table . |
| 7 | Too young to have been inoculated themselves , the babies had caught the disease from their older brothers and sisters who could have been inoculated but had not been . |
| 8 | In seven cases there was acknowledged to have been a deterioration in the dependant 's condition , so that the principal carer accepted or had even requested institutional care . |
| 9 | The woman columnist at the Star argued that the judge as a man had no real understanding of what the girls had suffered and had unjustifiably let the youths off lightly with seven-year and three-year prison sentences . |
| 10 | I remembered that I had promised to see her about some poems she had written and had nervously asked me to read . |
| 11 | Repairs too , would be another hazard to face , but the structure was sturdily built and had always been well maintained . |
| 12 | She stressed that her client only knew of the cockroach problem the day before the complaint was made and had immediately bought powder to rid the restaurant of the insects . |
| 13 | Although I had ‘ backed up ’ on a floppy disc from the computer I lost both floppy and hard disc record on Friday ( yes 13th ) and it was all my address list — twenty pages this size of single line entries and with just a double space between As and Bs and Cs and Ds etc. ; I could have wept but had instead to laugh — only thing to do and a mistake or combination of same that I shall NOT make again . |
| 14 | The vibrancers had truly believed what they 'd been taught and had never questioned anything . |
| 15 | Before long I was posted and had sadly to make my reluctant goodbyes to Yolande . |
| 16 | Elizabeth said that the place was full of letters she had written to someone who had died and had never received them . |
| 17 | Regular Hunger Marches from the Distressed Areas to London , of which the most famous was the Jarrow March of 1936 , helped to emphasize to the more prosperous areas that unemployment had not been abolished but had merely receded . |
| 18 | Pilger had agreed but had apparently not realized how this weakened his position . |
| 19 | He had n't even been in the club the previous evening , which should have helped but had n't . |
| 20 | However , at the financial year end all the invoices that had been received but had not been paid would be collected together for each department say , and a total entry would be put through the books accruing all the payments due to be made . |
| 21 | Although preliminary speculation was that the crash might have been caused by a bomb , accident investigators revealed that the plane had nose-dived after the right engine suddenly went into reverse thrust ; electronic safety systems designed to cope with this had apparently failed , and a warning light had either malfunctioned or had not been believed by the pilot . |
| 22 | And we thought we knew enough about , at the moment there are still a lot of needs that people had already raised that had not been addressed . |
| 23 | Some British officers had been sent to help the Madeirans with their resistance , but they had arrived only a few days before the Portuguese troops landed and had not had time to organize . |
| 24 | And Maggie had giggled and had indeed been comforted . |
| 25 | But situations were also encountered that had not been foreseen by the Instruction Book . |
| 26 | She still had n't spoken and had only just , so she thought , heard his name . |
| 27 | It is a phrase which often brings a gentle shiver of recognition — as though it is a truth we had always known but had long forgotten ; a truth concealed within our own hearts . |
| 28 | Greek historians , for example Thucydides , tended to concentrate on the recent past , their object being to put in writing those significant actions which were remembered but had not yet been recorded . |
| 29 | Other evidence collected by COBE supported the theory that up to 90 per cent of the universe was made up of " dark matter " , the presence of which scientists had inferred but had never directly detected . |
| 30 | One thing that we did was find that there were molecules much , much bigger than was expected in the sense that there were many , many more carbon atoms involved than had previously been thought possible , and even now we just do not understand the processes whereby they are formed . |