Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had all taken enough to kill , that was sure . |
| 2 | The small pain which had been inflicted upon it had only served somehow to make it stronger . |
| 3 | The eight ships you left waiting had already moved across to intercept them . ’ |
| 4 | Boy was not surprised at the kind of sex they had , because he had already learnt never to assume that people made love in the same way as they talked . |
| 5 | As our group made a hasty retreat , Bosnia 's Muslim interior minister , Mr Alija Delimustafic , entered the fray , pressing the Yugoslav Army commander over why its forces had not intervened earlier to halt the attack . |
| 6 | Among more radical monetarists and free marketeers there remains disappointment that the government had not done more to shift the middle ground . |
| 7 | There was a reaction against ( Conservative ) government unpreparedness for war in the 1930s and against those who had not done more to solve the nation 's problems during the Depression . |
| 8 | But , apart from being a relatively poor performance by international standards , national resources had not grown sufficiently to take account of total need . |
| 9 | The PAC said that de Klerk had not conceded enough to persuade the movement to bring its exiled cadres home . |
| 10 | Johnson arrived in Winnipeg for the Canadian championships , but his advisers notified organisers late on Friday that a week-old hamstring injury had not healed sufficiently to enable him to race in Saturday 's 60 metres . |
| 11 | This system of local government had much fine work to its credit but it was generally accepted that its structure had not changed enough to keep pace with the changing social pattern of travel to work , shopping and holiday areas . |
| 12 | The US concession to cease production was a major factor , since it had been developing new binary systems but had not produced enough to replace the existing 25,000 tonnes of stocks . |
| 13 | Mr Arnold questioned why he had not tried harder to set up a system for receiving such information more swiftly . |
| 14 | But Billingsley had clearly known about Hirondelle 's visit to Murder Cay , and I realised that this senior police officer had not come here to enquire into a crime , but to cover it up . |
| 15 | Shopping , in Canada , had largely gone underground to defeat the climate . |
| 16 | Although he had always worked hard to maintain good relations with the tsar and the central government , he was not a professional courtier . |
| 17 | No other man had ever managed even to light a spark within her , yet he had set her body aflame , and it had taken every ounce of will-power she possessed not to give in to the longing he 'd unleashed . |
| 18 | By twelve o'clock he had usually earned enough to live on for the day . |
| 19 | A second later she was remembering that she , who had once vowed never to call Naylor Massingham ‘ sir ’ , had just done so . |
| 20 | Ramsay , forming his men into a lengthy line four deep , had not long to wait before the high wailing of a hunting-horn sounded in the windy gloom , for his group had probably had furthest to ride . |
| 21 | By Saturday they had both recovered sufficiently to fall in with the rest of the company for pay parade , waiting in a long queue to collect five shillings each from the paymaster . |
| 22 | She had n't managed even to soften him , let alone subjugate him , and that rankled unbearably . |
| 23 | ‘ It had n't got long to go , this ox , ’ she commented . |
| 24 | That 's when I started trying to get you back ; I knew I had n't got long to do it . ’ |
| 25 | So we just stayed anywhere and if you had n't got anywhere to go |
| 26 | For a moment she regretted that she had n't tried harder to dissuade Rob from his plan . |
| 27 | It had n't taken long to make a fool of herself . |
| 28 | It had n't taken long to determine that the plane had been sabotaged . |
| 29 | One thing was clear , though , from that stealthiness of Adam 's : he had n't come here to ask Ben Hesketh for the cup . |
| 30 | He had n't come here to bring her a birthday present ! |