Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you think it was hard for me , think what it was like for Gary , the sound technician , who had to sit out front in a box , wired up and WATCH the whole thing seven times a week and twice on Saturdays . |
| 2 | He had meted out vengeance to his chief enemy , Grant , so any further attack upon mere pawns would be unnecessary , therefore illogical . |
| 3 | Mrs Burrows nursed Betty through a dangerous illness when the doctor had given up hope on her . |
| 4 | I had given up hope of a reply when , after two months and three days , a letter came which began , ‘ We find your proposals perfectly feasible … ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ But it made a difficult situation impossible , caused distress to her and her husband and sounded the death knell on the marriage which until then , although in difficulties , neither of them had given up hope of saving . ’ |
| 6 | Joshua Morris had given up hope of ever reaching the promised land . |
| 7 | However , this doe snot apply so much to our other son , Robert , who is a private music teacher in Glasgow , so we see quite a lot of him and his wife and their baby son , who arrived just over a year ago , when we had given up hope of any more grandchildren . |
| 8 | If anyone had given up hope in life , it was I. ’ |
| 9 | Two years earlier Jones had given up work as a hod carrier when Wimbledon signed him from Wealdstone for £10,000 . |
| 10 | When he began writing again , he had given up realism for allegory about the conflict between , among other things , science and religion . |
| 11 | He had carried out work for Palmerston at Broadlands in 1856 , and in the dedication of his book , Architecture Numismatica , published in 1859 , he described Palmerston as ‘ the enlightened advocate of classical architecture ’ . |
| 12 | Another empty day with none of the jobs she had carried out day after day for so long that filled her time with things she enjoyed . |
| 13 | Previously the authors had carried out research on paraprofessional social service personnel in their own two countries — Israel and the USA ( Brawley and Schindler , 1972 ; Brawley , 1975 ; Schindler , 1980 ; 1982 ) . |
| 14 | It was said that he had turned down promotion to sergeant , in return for being allowed to play cricket for his county . |
| 15 | For Leconte , who only four months earlier had undergone back surgery for the third time in little more than two years , it had seen the re-birth of what was — and can be again — a gloriously entertaining , as well as effective , career . |
| 16 | The extreme diehards had written off Law as the dupe of Lloyd George because he did not come out fighting against coalition policies , hence the witticism that the coalition was an alliance between a flock of sheep led by a , crook and a flock of crooks led by a sheep . |
| 17 | Jerry Rawlings ( who had also staged a successful coup in June 1979 against the then military rulers , and had handed over power to President Hilla Limann in September of that year ) . |
| 18 | As Ariel 's voice reached through the darkness that had walled up Sycorax in pain , she tried to recall some of the things she had once known ; she murmured and found that when she did so Ariel stopped singing , so she tried not to remember out loud , but to save the retrieved pieces inside her so that the low , scraping voice of the girl she loved would not be interrupted . |
| 19 | The defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo on 18 June 1815 had opened up travel on the Continent , and Sewell , fully realising that his visits were cursory , seems nevertheless to have enjoyed them . |
| 20 | Apart from these particular initiatives there was a general enthusiasm for the way in which fundholding had opened up communication with hospital colleagues . |
| 21 | Mary Alston , one of the mainstays of the women 's union in the 1920s , had to care during this time for a sick sister , who was in and out of a nursing home ; much later , in the 1940s , she had to give up work for a while to care for her mother . |
| 22 | One nurse in the study told how she had to give up training after being branded a trouble-maker for complaining about a male nurse who continually groped her . |
| 23 | Even so , Parliament had to vote down dissent from those who disliked the Gregorian calendar 's ‘ Papist ’ origin , or anything ‘ new-fangled ’ . |
| 24 | This proved invaluable in March 1941 when the Barley Mow brewery was knocked out of action by German bombers and the Cannon brewery had to fill in production for 18 months . |
| 25 | Ariel had laid down Sycorax at the cabin entrance , under the dappled broad shade of a mango tree . |
| 26 | Overstrain had brought on tuberculosis in 1939 and I had been having a lot of trouble with my eyes . |
| 27 | The other groups had set up camp on the far side , waiting for a few clear days and the worst of the snow to melt . |
| 28 | He had even established a system for sending money home to their families once they had set up house in this country . |
| 29 | With Syrian approval , the captain of the town 's ‘ defence committee ’ had set up office in the telephone exchange . |
| 30 | His Celtic tones were complemented by those of Jim Naughtie himself , who had set up shop in an attic room of the Grand , but who had been spending much of the ‘ happy hour ’ between six and seven trawling for ‘ vox pop ’ . |