Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One other respect in which Pascal is a modem thinker is in his view , which he shared with the Jansenists , that language had proven too strong for mystery , so that theology had become merely a branch of rhetoric . |
| 2 | He had spent nearly all of his forty-eight years in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist , and during that time he had witnessed literally thousands of encounters with people from the Other Side . |
| 3 | The female half of the population had to wait even longer for an equal political voice : not until substantial numbers of women had moved out from the shelter of the home to take an independent place in the labour market was women 's claim to a voice in the political market allowed . |
| 4 | When he heard that he had to wait still longer for his dinner , he began to growl and lash his tail and curl his whiskers in a most terrible manner causing the poor farmer 's knees to knock together with terror . |
| 5 | Out there in the cold snow Dane Jacobsen had stripped away some of the barriers she protected herself with . |
| 6 | They had pled not guilty at their trial to the three charges . |
| 7 | He had pled not guilty to the murder at the couple 's home in October 1991 . |
| 8 | Before CD ‘ thought of Mr Pickwick ’ and wrote the first number , he had already gained for himself more freedom in the conduct of his story than Seymour and his publishers had originally intended , but the sudden death of Seymour when he had completed only 3 of the 4 illustrations for No. ii , and his replacement by the young artist Hablot K. Browne ( who soon adopted the signature ‘ Phiz ’ to parallel CD 's ‘ Boz ’ ) , contributed to the dominance of text over illustrations : from No. iii on the plates were reduced to 2 per number and the pages of text increased from 26 to 32 . |
| 9 | He had heard so much about it from the Queen Mother — who as a child had been there every year — and from so many other people that he had felt it was a part of his education that was sorely lacking . |
| 10 | If he felt , sometimes , that he had heard too little of that interview of Primaflora 's , and that there was something of desperation now in her love-making , he did n't pursue it for once ; and even the matter of Katelina remained only as an anxiety held well in check . |
| 11 | The girl in front had stopped under one of the street lamps . |
| 12 | Yet Labour had not fought the election solely on a negative programme of hostility to Protection but on its socialist programme ; and the electors had given even less of a mandate to socialism than to Protection . |
| 13 | I had given about half of the statement to a copy stenographer by telephone ( a normal procedure ) when a man with a southern or midland English accent intervened . |
| 14 | He had exhibited work every year since 1847 , and had given about three of a series of lectures on mediaeval architecture to students at the Academy , which he had started the previous year . |
| 15 | He said he felt for the staff who had given so much for Timex , then added : ‘ I also feel sad for the strikers . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The contractors had done a lot of the work , but we had to go over some of it again , including painting the wooden treads on the stairs just to make sure it was right , ’ he explained . |
| 17 | However , Jeff , who has taken charge of over 1100 games in his career , had to go off injured at half time with a calf injury , the first time ever he has had retire during a game . |
| 18 | Since none of the candidates obtained an overall majority , Walesa ( who had fallen well short of his objective of outright victory in the first round ) and Tyminski would contest a run-off for the presidency on Dec. 9 . |
| 19 | The first round on March 24 had failed to produce a winner because the turnout had fallen well short of the required 50 per cent , but in the second round the required 25 per cent turnout was just exceeded . |
| 20 | She expressed concern that in both instances income had fallen well short of expenditure . |
| 21 | Lewis had fallen fast asleep on the back seat of the police car and remained so for the whole of the journey back to Oxford . |
| 22 | Leeds had won just one of their previous five games , but goals from Rod Wallace , Lee Chapman and a memorable effort from Eric Cantona put a smile back on Wilkinson 's face . |
| 23 | Complete results of the July 29 elections were not available as of mid-August , but according to the Far Eastern Economic Review of Aug. 16 the MPRP had received at least 60 per cent of the votes and had won over 340 of the 430 seats in the People 's Great Hural . |
| 24 | The South West had won only four of their 20 divisional matches before last week and had never achieved two wins in a single season . |
| 25 | The latest results of the Nov. 11 congressional elections showed that the MAS had won only 27 of the 100 seats in Congress compared with 41 for the UCN . |
| 26 | Jackson , the WBC middleweight champion with a 45-1 record and 42 knockouts , KO 'd club fighter Eddie Hall ( 21-9 ) , who had won only one of his last five fights . |
| 27 | At this point England had won only one of their last 24 Test matches . |
| 28 | For the astonishing fact is that Malcolm Allison , soccer 's oldest boss at 65 , has revitalised a Bristol Rovers side that had won only two of 16 games before he took over from the sacked Dennis Rofe a month ago . |
| 29 | Although the final results of the legislative elections , also held on May 11 , were not available at the end of June , it appeared that the Lakas-NUCD coalition had won only two of the 24 Senate seats , and around 50 seats in the 200-member House of Representatives . |
| 30 | Did you ever think it was unfair that you had to work so hard for so little money ? |