Example sentences of "[adv] had [pers pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On going back downstairs in her working clothes to do the washing up , she felt a quiet pride : not only had she now achieved the status of a married woman , but she had also had a proper wedding with a cake and an attendant — which was more than did most girls of her class . |
| 2 | So had he ever considered singing as a career ? |
| 3 | So had she once walked and talked herself in that same garden — or so it now seemed to her — with the young Irishman who had recovered the amethyst and diamond cat which she still wore , very often on her collar and which she had longed — very badly , she remembered — to give him as a keepsake . |
| 4 | And then , since her father 's fatal heart attack eighteen months ago , no sooner had she slowly started to come to terms with his loss , to face the grief and despair at the thought of never seeing him again , than her mother 's letters and telephone calls had begun to fill her with stunned horror . |
| 5 | Only once had he ever lost his temper with the Normans . |
| 6 | Not until now had he really known how much it all meant to him . |
| 7 | Nevertheless as a woman , a foreigner and a usurper , Catherine was never in a position to dispense with the backing of the landowning class in Russia even had she ever dreamed of doing so . |
| 8 | For I am at such an inn because it is all I can afford — and you would not be here had you better means . ’ |
| 9 | Yet had it ever existed ? |