Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some twentieth-century vandal had ripped out the latticed windows of number seventeen . |
| 2 | When I got home I found , among the mountain of letters ( mainly telling me I had filled in a blue form when it should have been a yellow one or asking for information I had already given ) , one from the BBC asking me to get in touch with the Punters office in Bristol as soon as possible . |
| 3 | By July , Wolfgang had been rewarded for his efforts with a formal appointment to the post he had filled in an honorary capacity — on and off — for the past three years , that of konzertmeister . |
| 4 | She had to carry along a spare one which belongs to her mum yesterday , in case the one she has had since 1984 became damaged . |
| 5 | She is also claiming compensation because doctors had to carry out a lifesaving hysterectomy . |
| 6 | And Joanna had sped down the outer stairway , crying and joyous at once . |
| 7 | Diana had gathered together a small staff who were learning the ropes as fast as she was . |
| 8 | For the mid-air leap , Crawford had to drive up a narrow thirty-foot ramp and jump from a height of seven feet over a wall . |
| 9 | Gone are the days when you had to slide down a muddy bank and hold an old mercury one at arms length . |
| 10 | Although various thinkers before him had formulated much the same basic principle of utility as basic to ethics none had used it so systematically as the basis for rethinking all moral and social arrangements . |
| 11 | His measures had welded together an invincible voter coalition . |
| 12 | Ian MacDonald and he had stripped down the old wreck and searched junk yards for spare parts . |
| 13 | Julius 's dark brown eyes held an odd gleam of triumph , as if he had realised exactly the same thing . |
| 14 | I felt a little guilty at leaving the Websters , as we had developed quite a good relationship . |
| 15 | Holy Mother , she had blurted out the wrong thing already . |
| 16 | The design was complicated , with a serpentine pattern of dark blue and white with touches of black , and whoever was knitting it had completed only a few inches of ribbed welt . |
| 17 | He smilingly proffered me a cup of watered wine in one of the goblets I had hidden away the previous evening . |
| 18 | Many of the Minpins who had flown away a short while before were now returning on their birds . |
| 19 | Groups spoke of ‘ strategies ’ and making ‘ career moves ’ ; the jargon of the Harvard Business School had banished forever the Utopian cliches of Woodstock , and the anarchist ones of punk . |
| 20 | He dominated the conversation , holding the Hackett and Townshend women spellbound as he told of how he had broken up a white-slave ring in Dublin , and how he had rescued an innocent young girl from a fate worse than death . |
| 21 | The polemic in the newspapers had begun not over the kidnapping but over a fight that had broken out a few days previously in a bar much frequented by the young Sardinians who hung around the city and by the city gangs who sold them drugs . |
| 22 | Methodism had broken down the old geographical barriers so that now nearly all areas had their Nonconformists . |
| 23 | Mickey had rang up the social worker and he had taken the bairn . |
| 24 | Thus far , Kirov had received only a vague brief about his current project . |
| 25 | Rico Gopul , a staff nurse in the villa at the time of the alleged incidents , told the tribunal he had been accused of the same offences as Mr Reid but had received only a written warning . |
| 26 | Numbers were small ; but a final case study approach revealed that for people who lived alone , had no informal carer who could manage all necessary care ; and had a high level of cognitive impairment , the Home Support Project was likely to prolong home care beyond that of those who had received only the usual services . |
| 27 | The British Market Research Bureau had examined how the sexual habits of homosexuals had changed between 1986 and 1989 . |
| 28 | I had given up a good job to go there and when I came back after the adventure I had looked forward to for so long , I was very disappointed with myself . |
| 29 | All right , yes , ’ knowing that she would n't be able to do it ; there were so many factors against it : the old woman along the corridor depending on her ; Charlie , who had given up a good part of his life waiting for her . |
| 30 | I had had a whole afternoon spent upon me , been the centre of attention , cost the State a fortune and my wife had given up a whole day of precious work to be with me . |