Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Julius 's dark brown eyes held an odd gleam of triumph , as if he had realised exactly the same thing . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But he had travelled only a few miles when he lost his way among the dark country lanes near his home in Diss , Norfolk . |
| 6 | They had travelled only a few yards into the dense timber when the silence of the woods closed in about them , cutting them off from the rest of humanity in a claustrophobic world of towering trunks and patches of thick underbrush . |
| 7 | Scarlet turned away uneasily at the mention of upbringing : Brian 's first wife had telephoned only a few weeks before to say that Brian 's son was causing her hair to turn grey and fall out . |
| 8 | She and Herbert had enjoyed only a few years of happiness together . |
| 9 | Credit must be given to the home keeper Alan Godden who had to pull off a few good saves . |
| 10 | Somewhere along the road , she had picked up a few extra senses , and she would have to learn to live with them . |
| 11 | The car , however , had picked up a few more dents , and none of the windows existed any longer . |
| 12 | In the library where Ianthe worked the approach of Christmas had made itself felt , though it would be too much to say that any particularly Christmas spirit or noticeable increase of goodwill could be discerned , even though Shirley had hung up a few coloured paper chains . |
| 13 | I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature . |
| 14 | He asked if I was a friend of the other young chap who had made exactly the same enquiry of him ten days ago . ’ |
| 15 | A few days before , in an interview with The Economist , Ms Tyson had made precisely the same point . |
| 16 | Well , that was natural ; only a short time ago , when Rick Lawrence was the quarry , Melissa had felt exactly the same . |
| 17 | She had felt much the same herself of late , restless , needing to work off that restlessness , only she had n't had the same opportunities to indulge herself . |
| 18 | Henry had died only a few weeks before William and this , so far as Tancred was concerned , meant that the arrangement was void . |
| 19 | Robyn had thought much the same on numerous occasions but she was n't about to give him the satisfaction of letting him know that . |
| 20 | He 'd been back again the following weekend , and he had had just the same unsettling effect on her . |
| 21 | She had had precisely the same expensive education as her friend and would never concede that she was not as clever . |
| 22 | They had used exactly the same methodology as that employed to reach the results at Dounreay and Sellafield . |
| 23 | Oxford manager Brian Horton had drawn up a few special plans for Villa one of them was this free kick which hit the post . |
| 24 | For years , he and Hank had exchanged only a few words , but now they began to talk , drawn together by the magic of money ; and Hank was surprised and flattered to find that the elder man was entranced by his sudden success . |
| 25 | As she was about to leave the building she exchanged greetings with the portiera who handed her a letter which had arrived earlier the same day . |
| 26 | Some British officers had been sent to help the Madeirans with their resistance , but they had arrived only a few days before the Portuguese troops landed and had not had time to organize . |
| 27 | He says he was a little bit fed up becausehe had to plough up the same strip of the field several times for the film crew . |
| 28 | Last night , the old man had seemed much the same as ever , but in daylight the effect of the intervening twenty years was cruelly apparent . |
| 29 | It had entailed much the same fuss and anger as the now-and-then Sunday dinners : Rachaela recruited to peel vegetables , make crosses on the thousands of sprouts . |
| 30 | Bragad had brought quite a few men with him — a dozen or so though some , of course , were Mugeary 's , if that made any difference . |