Example sentences of "[noun] had [vb pp] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bora Mulitonovic 's side had won just once in their last 16 games and they had not scored for 389 minutes . |
| 2 | By Lancaster Road standards , the Ryans had gone too far up in the world , making them aliens . |
| 3 | By the end of August , Brusilov had advanced so far as to make replenishment of men and matériel difficult , often impossible . |
| 4 | She was the soul of unselfishness , as her ready offer to vacate her bedroom had shown yet again . |
| 5 | The illusion had lasted long enough to make her accept his invitation to spend a few days away as a reward for all her hard work at the shop . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , even though it was n't quite the real thing , Dennis had done all right for himself . |
| 7 | Mme Guérigny 's brothers had done quite well for themselves not far from Paris , and she , too , wanted to acquire a better standard of living , and some sort of training , possibly , for the two young people . |
| 8 | Our offices had expanded very rapidly from 1986 onwards and we had to increase our production capacity here and we were finding it very difficult to recruit trained sewing machinists . |
| 9 | The Bishop said the translator had attended very carefully to all the criticisms and it now seemed likely that we would have to wait until at least the end of the summer before the English edition appears . |
| 10 | Many ringsiders felt the 22-year-old from the Mount Tallant Club had won quite convincingly and there was quite a few surprised faces when the final scoring was announced . |
| 11 | But by the nineteenth century knowledge itself had expanded so rapidly , and interest in locating published accounts of very specific knowledge units had developed so greatly , that all previous expedients had to some extent broken down , and the new public libraries proliferating in the UK , the USA , and elsewhere gave an added impetus to invention . |
| 12 | Wycliffe looked closely at what appeared to be scorch marks on the collar where the blood had caked most thickly . |
| 13 | ‘ Where the devil 's Frank with my bag ? ’ the doctor snapped , for — ; as much in shock as in pain — Emilia had fainted away again . |
| 14 | Rachel was invited to join them and she was happy to do so , but for the rest of the day she could n't forget that moment when David had moved so close to her ; she could n't forget the look in his eyes , a look that had implied that the conclusions drawn by others about his intentions towards her could be well founded . |
| 15 | And all the time David had spoken only briefly to Juliet , to move Gaynor and help her with her gown . |
| 16 | It had been , however briefly , a time when her body and her mind had fitted together so tidily and wholely that , waking up one morning and deciding that it was time to go back to Oxford and visit her mother , was neither traumatic nor casual , but straightforward . |
| 17 | The Collector 's mind had wandered yet again , though he nodded intelligently from time to time , hoping thus to soothe the Padre . |
| 18 | The roof had collapsed long ago , leaving some of its timbers exposed to the elements , but apart from that it seemed reasonably stable . |
| 19 | This is a view both parties had taken very seriously . |
| 20 | However , the Ombudsman found that the UK and Gibraltar funds were closely linked and that , if the Department had moved swiftly enough to revoke the UK licence , the Gibraltar fund could not have continued to exist . |
| 21 | Myeloski said when Leeming had settled once again . |
| 22 | Doublethink had entered so completely into Ceauşescu 's soul by the 1980s that he could genuinely bask in what he took to be sincere affection at the same time as he knew how stage-managed the whole event was . |
| 23 | The work progressed well until it was discovered that the original iron braces inserted into the stonework by Scott had rusted very badly and expanded several inches , forcing the stonework upwards . |
| 24 | Unlike the sycophantic official court chronicles — the Shah Jehan Nama that Dr Jaffery had spent so long transcribing — the accounts of the two European travellers were packed with reams of malicious bazaar gossip . |
| 25 | Knowing full well that it was n't on her account that Travis had worked so hard , Leith shrugged . |
| 26 | In the wake of the battle , things were very dangerous for Peden and his supporters ; the Dragoons had become even more ruthless and what were to become known as The Killing Times had begun . |
| 27 | Not quickly enough , however , and once again the night was split by flame and thunder as fire-sticks had roared terrifyingly close to them . |
| 28 | One afternoon a nurserymaid from the castle had appeared with Richard , and her distress had melted as quickly as it had grown . |
| 29 | It was the middle of March and the snow had receded even further up the slopes . |
| 30 | Second , Lyell had outlined very fully — and of course rejected — the comprehensive transmutationist system of biology developed by jean Lamarck , praising the French zoologist for his courage in extending his repugnant ideas to our own species , man . |