Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to sit down twice because of the roast beef and everything , which had gone straight to my legs . |
| 2 | His plan had misfired as badly as mine . |
| 3 | The form of mills had developed only slowly since the Middle Ages , but by the middle of the eighteenth century the technology of wind and water power was being investigated scientifically and there was competition for mill sites because of enlarging industrial needs . |
| 4 | I suppose they must be , thought Lydia , shrugging , and wondering also whether the modern tendency , which was American in origin , to tell everybody everything before they 'd even got the first olive off the cocktail stick had percolated as far as here . |
| 5 | The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart . |
| 6 | When she was discharged , she had to go home alone because no one had told her family . |
| 7 | The barge-owners had to go as far as the brewery wharf across Maurice 's foredeck and over a series of gangplanks which connected them with their own boats . |
| 8 | She had marched indignantly out when the proposal had been put to her and the matter had remained unresolved ever since . |
| 9 | And Julius 's breathing had altered radically almost before she had finished speaking . |
| 10 | The Dean and Chapter had recently forbidden parking there and had won as far as cars were concerned , but the local inhabitants had always parked their bikes there and continued so to do . |
| 11 | It had vanished as surely as the name of her village had been erased from the map of Israel . |
| 12 | The latter had vanished as punctually as he had appeared . |
| 13 | It had vanished as silently as if it had been only a figment of her imagination . |
| 14 | The expression of good-humoured contempt had vanished as quickly as it had appeared , and suddenly Rostov realised that he had missed an opportunity to relax the tension which existed between them . |
| 15 | The German Communist Party had not only failed to carry out.the revolution but had vanished as rapidly as the Social Democrats . |
| 16 | Some had fared considerably better than others , leading to a differentiated society . |
| 17 | And we had to come back together because a guest had twisted her ankle and it needed bandaging . ’ |
| 18 | One night we had sat up late while Mum and Dad were at The Golden Cup and had cut up old Christmas decorations into tiny squares and diamonds and then hidden them in envelopes . |
| 19 | Juliet had noticed how David had looked up sharply while Miss Rose was talking . |
| 20 | It was significant that Mr Lamont had looked further ahead than is usually the case on Budget day , said Professor Sherer . |
| 21 | Pressure on the government to intervene had come as early as 1952 with the publication of the Church of England Moral Welfare Council 's Report entitled The Problem of Homosexuality which advocated reform of the law . |
| 22 | Claudia closed her eyes as she remembered the time she had come home earlier than usual . |
| 23 | Yesterday a spokesman for Reg Vardy said the firm and Rolls- Royce had carried out more than £1,000 worth of work to rectify the steering problem , including fitting two new road wheels . |
| 24 | He had kissed and fondled her and she had responded as well as she could but they had both been too aware of each others inexperience and uncertainty to achieve fulfilment . |
| 25 | But there was no point in talking to Victoria , who had forgotten anywhere else because she lived from day to day . |
| 26 | We had to find out exactly where an object was stored , or on show , and record that information . |
| 27 | The mood immediately sank back into deep depression , especially in the light of the Soviet summer offensive , which had pushed as far as the Vistula , and , in August , the accelerating advance of the western allies through France . |
| 28 | The two had met up again when Packford helped on the Wapping Post . |
| 29 | Tolkien and Lewis had met as early as 1926 ; in 1939 Charles Williams had moved as a publisher from London to Oxford , and by the last years of the war Christian revival was in active literary life . |
| 30 | As we watched , the fog , which had crept as far as the house , began to flow round it . |