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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | She had only ever felt this physical response in Harry 's presence . |
| 5 | They had attempted to visualize his world , as they had so often visualized each other 's boarding-schools . |
| 6 | Tony and I unpacked the Upski parachutes that we had so lovingly tended all the way from the UK . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Yet several weeks into the scandal , the New Yorker complained that the mess had so far mocked all attempts to baptize it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | My nose had long since lost all feeling and I massaged it back into life . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She had apparently already put such a proposition to her mother on the telephone . |
| 18 | He had always slightly despised those enchanted by things touched by the great : Balzac 's ornate walking-stick , Robert Louis Stevenson 's flageolet , a black lace mantilla once worn by George Eliot . |
| 19 | Looking at her , swathed in shawls though the room was too warm and the day itself not cold , Wilson had once more felt those twinges of alarm which she resented . |
| 20 | On the basis of the documentary evidence , then , it would appear that Molla Husrev still held the kadilik of Istanbul in Rajab 876 but had almost certainly left that office by Shawwal 877 . |
| 21 | Max has to establish a relationship with the soldiers : ‘ He had quite early realised that part of their life depended on their being left to do things by themselves and not being interfered with . |
| 22 | By the end of September stripping to bare metal of the lower nose area for inspection had sadly also removed half of the nose art and the aircraft was completely gutted as the VMMU got to grips with their final overhaul . |
| 23 | High wages at some undefined earlier date had very possibly induced many Cornishmen to abandon husbandry for tinning . |
| 24 | It suddenly occurred to me that I had been so busy enjoying myself on the Mantela that I had never even opened either of them . |
| 25 | Democrats also responded with incredulity when Thomas justified his refusal to comment on Roe v. Wade on the grounds that he had never previously discussed this historically significant decision during his entire legal career . |
| 26 | But I had never really formed any ambition to become a Member of Parliament , I just talked about things which I love to talk about till all of a sudden one of the guests said : ‘ You want to be a Member of Parliament do n't you ? ’ and I said , ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 27 | Like most others , he had never really trusted that Earl ; but this throwing in his lot with the English , while still Scots Chief Warden of the Marches , was a dire betrayal by any standards , and most menacing for Berwick , since as Warden he had overall authority for the town and port , if not the castle . |
| 28 | I had never really considered this . |
| 29 | She had never really forgotten any of it , of course , how could she forget something that had consumed her so completely , even if it had lasted such a short time ? |
| 30 | The present superintendent estimated at this time that about half of all girls coming there had never really had any home life , or had been in care , and believed that this cycle would repeat itself : " as high as 85 per cent of these babies , it 's going to happen to them . |