Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some twentieth-century vandal had ripped out the latticed windows of number seventeen . |
| 2 | And Joanna had sped down the outer stairway , crying and joyous at once . |
| 3 | Ian MacDonald and he had stripped down the old wreck and searched junk yards for spare parts . |
| 4 | Holy Mother , she had blurted out the wrong thing already . |
| 5 | He smilingly proffered me a cup of watered wine in one of the goblets I had hidden away the previous evening . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Methodism had broken down the old geographical barriers so that now nearly all areas had their Nonconformists . |
| 8 | Mickey had rang up the social worker and he had taken the bairn . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The British Market Research Bureau had examined how the sexual habits of homosexuals had changed between 1986 and 1989 . |
| 11 | ANNE HAD GIVEN up the rational approach , and picked a passage at random . |
| 12 | Ivan did not interest him , gossip did not interest him , he had given up the personal life . |
| 13 | Critics then and now say that Nonconformity did not create a new architecture after they had given up the old seventeenth and eighteenth-century meeting house . |
| 14 | Mark 's compensation and pension terms would be spelt out to him by New York within the next two weeks , after they had checked out the maximum terms permissible under British law . |
| 15 | Much of this went to Hull for export , but trains for Lancashire had to go up the formidable Worsborough bank avoiding Barnsley , and joining the main line just south of Penistone . |
| 16 | Siward had merely killed his wife 's uncle , as Carl Thorbrandsson had already killed his wife 's father , and had joined thereby the bloody brethren of kinsmen whose lethal manoeuvrings had kept him busy for the twelve years he had now held the earldom . |
| 17 | I interviewed Place in a midget submarine in Portsmouth dockyard similar to the one in which he and two other men had travelled up the long fjord in northern Norway at the head of which Tirpitz lay , cut their way through the nets surrounding her and laid charges beneath her hull which , when they exploded an hour later and Place was a prisoner-of-war on board her , put the ship out of action for six months . |
| 18 | The youngster had fallen down the steep embankment on the Colchester side of the station , injuring her back and legs , and was unable to move . |
| 19 | This was the first opportunity we had to try out the new personalisation facility with the agents ’ mailing . |
| 20 | The doctor had rolled up the dead woman 's sleeves to examine her arms . |
| 21 | Within days of the settlement Mass Observation reported widespread shame ‘ that we had let down the whole tradition of England 's pledges for honesty , fair play and resistance to threats . ’ |
| 22 | They went to total excess and then they had to come back the other way . |
| 23 | That road led only to self-destruction — she should know that better than anyone … only had to conjure up the sad , embittered look in her mother 's hazel eyes to realise the depths of pain such an entanglement could cause . |
| 24 | Giving the vote , in effect , not only to men like Goldsborough who had always had it as a birthright , but to men like himself and Ben Braithwaite 's father who had come up the hard way . |
| 25 | A great adventure , a fitting enterprise for one who had known herself from infancy to be set apart for some rare destiny , and one that she had thought herself to have pursued courageously , successfully , with a redeeming love that had rescued even the anguished , complex , hostile Aaron , and had saved him from his wilder flights . |
| 26 | In fact , my sheer busyness had squeezed out the close intimacy I had known with him during the first few months of the year after my operation . |
| 27 | There were still old parts of Bucharest surviving despite the bulldozers of Ceausescu which had torn down the old to build huge concrete cubes . |
| 28 | The police decided that the murderer had carried away the other half . |
| 29 | I took over the chair previously occupied by Angus Maude , who since 1979 had carried out the impossible job of overseeing Government information . |
| 30 | Bream 's counsel , Mr Charles Tilling suggested in his closing speech that another person at the party had carried out the fatal knife attack . |