Example sentences of "had [adv] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharp was unable to name specifically the brands which had most successfully taken this approach , but confirmed the list was dominated by the large US multinationals such as Ford and Coca-Cola . |
| 2 | In the past the ATB had perhaps not paid enough attention to this aspect . |
| 3 | Britain had perhaps never faced such a large demand for a product which , since cotton could not be grown in the country , it was incapable of producing itself . |
| 4 | I had no idea what the country was like , I had purposefully not wanted any description of the landscape , city or culture . |
| 5 | ‘ Joan , when I departed for Ludlow , it was with a heavy heart — for it seemed to me we had only just found each other , ’ Edward told her . |
| 6 | She had only ever felt this physical response in Harry 's presence . |
| 7 | They had attempted to visualize his world , as they had so often visualized each other 's boarding-schools . |
| 8 | Tony and I unpacked the Upski parachutes that we had so lovingly tended all the way from the UK . |
| 9 | Pakistan and the United States would eventually have to accept direct talks with the PDPA , he said , adding that neither country had so far implemented any peace process . |
| 10 | I had heard stories , including horrendous tales of harassment by the police from other people in the black community but my family and I had so far escaped such treatment . |
| 11 | He had already clearly laid down his view in his opening speech to the session , in which he recognised that perestroika had so far made little impact on the acute social and economic crisis . |
| 12 | I wanted to continue my studies as a postgraduate at U.C.L. I was now interested in modern linguistic research , but knew very little about it , since linguistics had so far made little impact in the U.K. , and there was no teacher in the Department who could adequately supervise me in that area . |
| 13 | The silhouette , instantly recognisable by its wide hips and shaggy curls , was David Murray , an older boy in the House who had so far taken little notice of the latest royal presence in the school . |
| 14 | Yet several weeks into the scandal , the New Yorker complained that the mess had so far mocked all attempts to baptize it . |
| 15 | The trouble was that the land belonged to a family who lived in London and owned parcels of land all over the country and had so far resisted all attempts to relinquish this innocuous piece of British soil . |
| 16 | President Bush for his part stressed the importance of progress under the bilateral Structural Impediments Initiative ( SII ) talks , the third round of which had taken place on Feb. 22-23 between US and Japanese trade officials , but which had so far produced little concrete progress toward the elimination of what the USA termed Japan 's unfair import barriers . |
| 17 | And Fazal said : ‘ You had better not do that if the Mamur Zapt is about . ’ |
| 18 | Dorothy decided she had better not laugh this time , though she wanted to , so she said cautiously : ‘ I do n't know , Hank . ’ |
| 19 | It stated the soldier 's undying love for his wife but also made it plain that he realised that they could not live in harmony , so they had better not see each other . |
| 20 | It was then we saw that the small rescue boat from the lifeboat was standing by so they had obviously not thought much of our chances . |
| 21 | My nose had long since lost all feeling and I massaged it back into life . |
| 22 | She had been brought up as a chapel-goer , and two generations back her family had been staunch Wesleyans , but she herself had long since dropped any pretence to faith of any kind , and now considered all religious observation as ridiculous frivolity . |
| 23 | There was at first some confused skirmishing over the actual terms of the Charter — the College 's solicitor , Mr France , had apparently not seen some amendments and had agreed to others from the practitioners ' side without fully informing either the College professors or William Dick . |
| 24 | She had apparently already put such a proposition to her mother on the telephone . |
| 25 | Others found they had not even recorded all of the interviews . |
| 26 | She had no idea where they were , had not even noticed that night had fallen . |
| 27 | She had not even attracted any positive repression , nor been significant enough to affect her husband 's career . |
| 28 | The District Chief , who had not altogether followed all this , looked blank . |
| 29 | She had not yet worn any of the gowns sent by Tamar and was longing for Bob to see her in the blue one . |
| 30 | In the early seventies the first indications were already apparent that inflation might increase sharply , although we had not yet reached such runaway rates as 30 per cent . |