Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the only chamber Corbett had ever seen where there were no torches fixed to the wall . |
| 2 | David Fairfax had certainly blown up everything she had told him . |
| 3 | Jefferson had obviously set out to design the ultimate high-tech putter and had , to a great extent , succeeded . |
| 4 | Madge Allsop had just crept in like a beige dormouse and deposited a salver of tea , though Dame Edna had dismissed her with a beady look when she attempted to sit in our chat . |
| 5 | Slorne had already calmed down by the time Creggan and Minch had finished speaking and the following evening the Sweeper came and she was calm again . |
| 6 | The representative there of the Bosnian Serbs , Misha Milosevic , told the commission ( i ) that no concentration camps existed in Serbian territory in Bosnia-Hercegovina ; ( ii ) that no hidden camp had been created ; ( iii ) that the [ self-proclaimed ] Serbian government of Bosnia-Hercegovina had never carried out operations of " ethnic cleansing " on its territory ; and ( iv ) that the same government had never refused international control over the prison camps in its territory . |
| 7 | It took a long time , so long that Sylvie had almost given up , had gone back to the clinic several times . |
| 8 | Mr Fisher said Neill had perhaps taken too many initiatives at once in the past year . |
| 9 | Branson had already moved home , and office , to a new houseboat , the Duende : now the Denbigh Terrace house was sold , along with two flats in Vernon Yard and a shop in Brent Cross . |
| 10 | Indeed , Branson had often gone out of his way to avoid newspaper or television interviews . |
| 11 | When she returned to the camp Travis had already packed up . |
| 12 | She could not recognize , did not dare to recognize the grandiose ambitions whence her rage sprang ; it did not amuse her to sit in the Deux Magots , remembering that Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir had once sat there , nor did she wish to glimpse the exteriors of the houses of the famous dead . |
| 13 | If only the clothes had been plainer and more suitable for the vicar 's wife of such a poor parish , ’ Sophia lamented , holding up the lame cocktail dress whose belt Faustina had now taken out into the hall . |
| 14 | In fact Edward had never felt less like laughing . |
| 15 | A decaying treestump sprouted a collar of saffron fungus of a kind Edward had never seen before . |
| 16 | Kylie had cathartically climbed out of her demure old skin into a naughtier new one — with the world watching . |
| 17 | It was true that the two had attended a house auction , but Kylie had simply gone along as a friend while Jason bid for the house he wanted to buy for himself . |
| 18 | But , indulging a passion more secret than her love for Italian painting , Molly had early gone off with Holmes and Watson in a cab through the pea-souper , or sat on the edge of her chair while Poirot summoned the guests to assemble in the library after tea . |
| 19 | When her mother had died early in the war , Molly had smoothly taken over the running of the house and also the more difficult job of looking after Selwyn , the father she adored . |
| 20 | Dogs ' names was n't something Mrs Parvis had yet spoken about . |
| 21 | This is a point which it would be useless to push too far ; the pose of the second figure from the left in the Demoiselles , for instance , was one which Picasso had already used frequently in his earlier work . |
| 22 | Picasso had never shown publicly at the big Salons , but Braque 's Cubist works exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants of 1909 were widely discussed and were undoubtedly an influence on some painters , while they must have helped others to interpret Cézanne in a more intellectual , objective way . |
| 23 | By creating a few developmental teams covering comparatively large areas , Nottinghamshire had also departed radically from the National Development Group for the Mentally Handicapped ( 1977 ) model of a CMHT . |
| 24 | Wishart had been away but he had heard the stories later , how Alexander had suddenly looked down the hall , dropping his cup and going pale with fright . |
| 25 | Luckily , Janice had already glanced away , her eyes circling with interest the splendid sitting-room . |
| 26 | All we can do is hope that Mrs W. will cool off and in the meantime , Edward , I 'm sorry but honestly I think Mary or Janice had better take over Junior Biology . ’ |
| 27 | As Shklovsky had already pointed out in his essay on ‘ Art as technique ’ ( although the implications of his remarks were not fully drawn out until later ) form and order can themselves act as powerful automatizing factors . |
| 28 | Nicholson had never carried out his threat to sue , though Hugo had endured some worrying weeks waiting to see if papers would be served on him , and the experience had made him determined never to work for the likes of Nicholson again . |
| 29 | It was more than possible that Zhukov had already taken off more prints for himself . |
| 30 | Not that Gemma had actually said as much , although " Amabel 's tender heart had at once understood . |