Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The news of his impending death had badly ruffled his composure . |
| 2 | She thought she could in the end be legitimized , be more than just the girl who had married the first man who came along in order to get away from home : daughter of a mother who 'd shacked up with her own mother 's boyfriend at that own mother 's unconscious behest — and had thereby had her life negated forever . |
| 3 | He was recognised by a youth who identified Dennis , 31 , as the man who had indecently assaulted his sister , it was alleged . |
| 4 | Hitherto , the Greeks had instinctively interpreted their experience through their myths and so given it " the stamp of the eternal " . |
| 5 | The exotic folklore-ism towards which Colgrass 's piece had eventually groped its way was here unleashed in all its succulence and schmaltz . |
| 6 | Just as Sylvia had eventually to translate her visualization into reality , so too did Clive . |
| 7 | The bar of The Wheel Tapper filled up and then one night emptied completely : Woodstock had eventually found its way to the local cinema . |
| 8 | When they had fruitlessly exhausted their task , Myeloski called the caretaker to guide them round the rest of the palace . |
| 9 | I said goodnight and went to my own room where I found the sleeping-car attendant had duly lowered my bed and laid a chocolate truffle on the pillow . |
| 10 | I knew he was twisting and tugging away up there but the local had mercifully done its job . |
| 11 | Her eyes had rarely left his face , although he was now tramping about the room , gesticulating as he talked . |
| 12 | She had always sworn that her private life would take second place to her career until she had established herself , that she would never become involved with anyone remotely connected with racing , and fortunately temptation had rarely come her way . |
| 13 | Molly had secretly enjoyed her initiation to sex on the night of Yanto 's near drowning , but then she had had to curtail her natural emotions for fear of waking her Father . |
| 14 | He had acutely put his finger upon the fact that the new tools of mass culture , television and radio , exposed the old ways of the royal household to a merciless stare from which they did not emerge well . |
| 15 | Paige had rather liked her cousin 's husband , though they had only met a couple of times . |
| 16 | And Liz had slowly swivelled her head round , and stared at her as though from a great way off , and had said dreamily , ‘ If you really want something badly enough , do you think you get it ? ’ |
| 17 | However , he had slowly modified his lack of jealousy into trust . |
| 18 | While acknowledging that there were some schools which had built up a good range of resources and had successfully integrated their school library with the teaching and learning taking place in the school , it appeared at this time that many demonstrated one or all of the following basic problems : |
| 19 | Mr Les Baker , director of industrial liaison , said more than 500 people had successfully completed its syllabus . |
| 20 | But within 20 minutes of Annandale 's arrival , at a cost of nearly £500 to Hendry 's manager , Ian Doyle , he had successfully completed his task . |
| 21 | Miss McDermott said there was ‘ a suspicion ’ Doherty had been treated in ‘ the way the Secretary of State chose to treat him ’ because he had successfully resisted his deportation for so long . |
| 22 | Bough , 59 , had successfully rebuilt his career and recently hosted ITV 's Rugby World Cup coverage and LWT 's Six O'clock Show . |
| 23 | I was sitting in what had effectively become my boudoir ; our living room . |
| 24 | In fact Trieste , which under the Austro-Hungarian Empire had been the main port of Middle Europe , had diminished in importance as far as Italy was concerned : Genoa had effectively taken its place . |
| 25 | He had found the father had forcibly struck his daughter but refused to hold the grounds of referral established . |
| 26 | Her subsequent unhappy reaction caused him to regret that he had inadvertently damaged her self-esteem by destroying part of her image of self which she presented to the world . |
| 27 | Then when Dixons admitted that Mr Kalms had perhaps overstated his case when talking about the ‘ 86 bid , Kingfisher smugly declared that it was ‘ pleased to note ’ Dixons ' clarification . |
| 28 | But Pepin had perhaps left his first-born , Charles , superior in power to Carloman , though they ruled jointly from 768 to 772 . |
| 29 | Indeed , much of the evidence suggests that , even if Mansell had not actually braked early , he had perhaps lifted his foot from the throttle , which has much the same effect in an F1 car . |
| 30 | It seemed to Miss Logan that her employer had perhaps exhausted her stock of civility on the long journey to Mount Ararat , and had now retreated into a stony carelessness . |