Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her thoughts taking flight , Luce found they had stopped halfway down a bare stone corridor . |
| 2 | Mr Justice Simon Brown , the High Court judge , had expected too high a standard of care and expertise in the firm 's performance of its duties towards the Luxmoore-Mays . |
| 3 | Perhaps out of guilt , Harriet discontinued her writing and stopped seeing Mill , with whom she had dined alone twice a week , in order to nurse her husband . |
| 4 | His wife had died just over a year earlier ; one of his daughters was a teacher in Tel Aviv , the other a painter , and Shlomo Green was himself a sculptor of some distinction . |
| 5 | This was precisely the situation in which Charles and Elizabeth found themselves in 1772 ; and we may surmise that they did what brother John was to do later — in the absence of Thomas the Calvinist , who had died just over a year previously , they honoured Charles 's elder brother William by making him the godfather and giving the child his Christian name . |
| 6 | My mother had died unexpectedly only a few months before . |
| 7 | Gibeau felt that we had had too easy a time of it at Canjuers and for the last three days introduced a new punishment . |
| 8 | To them , the Kenneth Williams voices and the Kenneth Williams faces , the flared nostrils and that snide look that had become as much a trademark as the ‘ stop messing about ’ sounds on radio were instantly recognizable . |
| 9 | By the end of the nineteenth century , children under school-leaving age effectively could not be contributing J wage to the household economy and had become very clearly a net drain on resources . |
| 10 | He had enjoyed the performance but felt it had become so obviously a theatrical production that it was now a long way from what had taken place in the Middle Ages . |
| 11 | By 1945 , German ‘ solutions ’ in the east had become so much a part of the German view of the world and ‘ German historic destiny ’ that the Russians and the Poles , who had played human safety-valve to German ambition throughout their long joint histories , saw dismemberment of German territory in the east as the only possible long-term solution . |
| 12 | It was as if the train journey itself , the old-fashioned intimate compartment in which they had found themselves , the freedom from interruptions and the tyranny of the telephone , the sense of time visibly flying , annihilated under the pounding wheels , not to be accounted for , had released both of them from a carefulness which had become so much a part of living that they were no longer aware of its weight until they let it slip from their shoulders . |
| 13 | It had become so much a matter of routine that when she answered he came close to putting the phone down before he realized that all he 'd heard was , ‘ Hello . ’ |
| 14 | Up to this point , still only sixteen years old , he had remained very much a background figure , drawn along in the wake of his elder brother , and both of them overshadowed by their protector , King Louis of France . |
| 15 | Gay had scraped together quite a creditable lunch , which Breeze swallowed in haste and then rushed off to the Vicarage . |
| 16 | He had learned there how a full colonel could wince and supplicate in his presence . |
| 17 | The royal split overshadowed coverage of Somalia , where US troops had stormed ashore just a day earlier . |
| 18 | Was it because he had no hope that he had lasted so short a time ? |
| 19 | After her husband 's death Valerie Eliot declared , " He felt he had paid too high a price to be a poet , that he had suffered too much " . |