Example sentences of "[adv] had [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had ‘ dropped the ball ’ and in doing so had lost valuable time in the search for a reliable synthetic antimalarial' . |
| 2 | In the study conducted in Great Britain during the late 1950s , an important finding was that 28 per cent of multiparous women aged 35 and over had elevated diastolic blood pressure compared to 17 per cent of those under age 25 . |
| 3 | One of the patients with normal test result at follow up had had erosive oesophagitis before repeat funcoplication , presumably with abnormal reflux ( not measured ) . |
| 4 | At this stage most people would have given up the struggle and for a time settled for Ted , who by now had enlisted new blood into his team , including the trusty old campaigner , John Peyton , and Peter Walker , who was re-engaged as Ted 's campaign manager . |
| 5 | One moon was the crescent that until now had claimed sole tenancy of the night . |
| 6 | [ See p. 36626 for extension of flying rights to West Berlin to French , UK and US airlines other than the three carriers which until then had held sole operating rights . ] |
| 7 | The people which only a few years previously had committed brutal genocide and waged a terrible war of destruction suddenly found themselves in the role of the great advocate of justice . |