Example sentences of "had [adv] [be] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as though she had secretly been waiting all evening for this moment , for this invitation to walk along the beach with him . |
| 2 | His wish had been granted , but he had only been given more time to experience cruel and unabated pain . |
| 3 | He stated that it had only been made some fifteen to twenty years ago by , of all people , his uncle . |
| 4 | The list had obviously been printed some time before . |
| 5 | In the 1940s an interest in genetic studies came to the fore , although several German investigators had already been following this line for some years . |
| 6 | Important steps had already been taken that were to lead to the decision . |
| 7 | However , the conference , whose start had already been postponed several times [ see p. 38323 ] , only managed to complete its first session . |
| 8 | The referendum , first scheduled for November 1991 , had already been postponed several times [ see pp. 38227 ; 38424 ; 38565 ; 38663 ] . |
| 9 | I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe . |
| 10 | If I had not been chasing that gipsy woman I could have gone to the party and chased Leila . ’ |
| 11 | However , the following month the Dalai Lama met with United States President Bush in Washington , although on previous visits to the USA he had not been granted such a meeting ; China made a strong protest to the USA . |
| 12 | The Court 's position had not been made any easier by suggestions that it was possible for the Government to influence its decisions . |
| 13 | Because she had been detached from it at the most traumatic moments , she had not been caused any distress but was well able to see how the combination of Daniel 's various experiences could have led to her phobia about water . |
| 14 | Sigsworth had not been receiving any medication at the hospital to help him over his withdrawal . |
| 15 | She had not been receiving any fertility treatment and it was only after a routine scan that all was revealed . |
| 16 | Thin , pale , intense , he had not been speaking many minutes before we were electrified by this man . |
| 17 | I was not given the run of the pavillon and I took it that , since I had not been extended this facility , I was not welcome to it . |
| 18 | In the course of his opinion in Maitland , the Lord President ( Clyde ) observed that the nobile officium should be exercised where a formal step had been per incuriam , omitted , and unnecessary delay and expenditure would result if the whole procedure had to be carried out again ; but that it was not to be used as a cloak for incompetence to extend a statutory remedy to a party who had not been given such a remedy , or , by consent of parties , to supplement statutory procedure by what would be an amendment of a statute . |
| 19 | He had never seen such a sparsely attended panel meeting ; the panel had not been given any written papers outlining Kent Opera 's financial position . |
| 20 | She had not been given any choice in the matter . |
| 21 | If Rosemary had not been suffering any stress that night , though , it was not long before the situation which had begun with Travis Hepwood became stressful . |
| 22 | All this made Rose and Oliver , who had not been told any new secrets , very nervous and uncomfortable . |
| 23 | It turned out that our candidate , who came to address us one evening , knew my Aunt Kit and had the greatest admiration for her , even though he also knew that the only reason why she had not been offered another , safer constituency after 1945 was that it had become too obvious she was unable to keep off the drink . |
| 24 | When she had finally been rescued some two hours later it was discovered that the hem of her frock had been chewed away . |
| 25 | In Holland the view had always been taken that changes in physical design of the street and in the legal rules governing its use were simultaneously necessary if dramatic changes in behaviour were to be achieved . |
| 26 | And , besides , I had always been told that self-pity was despicable . |
| 27 | But that was less surprising than that somebody had still been issuing such certificates in the chaos that had been Germany , just three weeks before the final surrender . |
| 28 | In answer to charge 4 that he had treated Royan without taking a proper history or examination or consulting his general practitioner , Dr Mumby said he took the clinical history in the form of a questionnaire which patients filled out in advance but he rarely examined patients because they had usually been examined many times elsewhere and because taking a history by questionnaire was an established technique of clinical ecology . |
| 29 | Their so-called furnished accommodation had consisted of two old beds that had come from a second-hand shop , a brokendown settee , and a gas cooker that had probably been used all through the war . |
| 30 | It had also been discovered that ANT , which had since been closed down , had been preparing other illegal export deals worth nearly US$900,000,000 involving items including valuable metals , uncut diamonds and classified aviation equipment . |