Example sentences of "[adv] [noun prp] had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hitherto Victoria had had far more liberal banking laws than the other five states . |
| 2 | So Edward had come back to see how she had got on . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps Nigel had come earlier and killed him and then arranged to come back and find the body . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If only Elaine had got round to registering the birth ! |
| 5 | By four o'clock Thiercelin had decided there was nothing further he could usefully do but await events . |
| 6 | Suddenly Tambini had run over to where most of us stood , awaiting our turn at the firing point . |
| 7 | So Davout had got that far . |
| 8 | Anna had arrived a week before the end of term , and so Christine had to go back to school , to her job , leaving Tony ( who had been granted paternity leave ) to cope on his own . |
| 9 | So Masklin had decided not to decide anything about Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) , in the hope that if there was an Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) and he found out about Masklin , he would n't mind much . |
| 10 | Meanwhile Ben had gone off to move another lighter and was then intercepted by the Manager who directed him to the dock some way off . |
| 11 | Meanwhile Linton had got up from his armchair and gone out to join Cathy and Hareton . |
| 12 | Thus TWW had to compete not only with the mundane but necessary business skills of the Harlech consortium but with the presence of famous Welsh names from the arts — Richard Burton , Stanley Baker , Geraint Evans — and the authority of Lord Harlech himself , a former minister and Ambassador to the Kennedy White House . |
| 13 | Thus Mandel had set out the three levels at which the fight against bureaucratization must be waged by the ‘ revolutionary vanguard ’ : |
| 14 | By the seventh and eighth centuries BC Israel had become quite wealthy . |
| 15 | Even then , such is Peter 's Jewish prejudice , the Holy Spirit has to take the initiative in falling upon Cornelius and his company before ever Peter had got round to making any appeal to repentance , faith and baptism ( 10:44f ) . |
| 16 | More confused than ever Mungo had picked up The Forest and the Fire , turning to page 119 . |
| 17 | ‘ But my strategy was clear and once Riccardo had gone out — and he was really the last chance of anybody catching me — I just had to stay calm and not worry about winning . ’ |
| 18 | Eventually Gilbert had switched on the tape and asked , ‘ Do you feel like talking , Bissell ? ’ |
| 19 | Two weeks later Liz had moved in with her brother and sister-in-law and seemed much happier in herself . |
| 20 | A joint statement released after the first day of the summit stressed that both Germanys had to act responsibly , and take into account the concerns and interests of their neighbours and allies in East and West . |
| 21 | Half an hour later Enid had calmed down , at least on the surface , and changed into her aquamarine lurex hostess gown . |
| 22 | Now Madeleine had taken over doing that . |
| 23 | The Duke had planned to assemble as much of his army as possible , then march at dawn on to the French flank to help Blücher 's Prussians , but now Sharpe had brought much worse news . |
| 24 | Now Malekith had gone too far . |
| 25 | Jonadab had made it clear that he had done his son-in-law a favour in allowing him to jump the queue and buy four of his grey shirehorses and now Stephen had to screw up his courage and confess that one was dead . |
| 26 | But now Waimea had become as shifty and treacherous as Sunset , a churning vortex that would suck in the over-audacious . |
| 27 | She could have told her guest that the midges were like little piranhas of the air ; but she had n't , and now Betty had found out for herself . |
| 28 | So far Massingham had done exceptionally well . |
| 29 | But they had finished with Elise 's death , and now Merrill had come back to the Midlands city where she and Elise had grown up before they went their separate ways . |
| 30 | Eventually Bligh had to turn round and run in the other direction , right round the earth , into the Pacific . |