Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donna had managed to disguise the worst of the bruising on her top lip beneath some foundation cream and a little rouge had given at least some artificial colour to her cheeks , but as she pulled down the sun-visor on the driver 's side and peered into the mirror she realized she looked as tired as she felt . |
| 2 | Demobilisation intensified the overstocking of the trade , and by 1818 the depressed weavers were claiming earnings had fallen to as little as 5s ( 25p ) a week for a journeyman and were asking " whether such a paltry sum be sufficient to keep the soul and body together " . |
| 3 | Almost the biggest shock of the many I had sustained on my return home was the loss of the social cachet I had enjoyed for so many years . |
| 4 | Everything would have combined to emphasize the fact that she was no longer part of the terrain her ancestors had occupied for so many generations . |
| 5 | The last delivery from the Royal Oak Colliery in South Wales had amounted to only half the tonnage ordered the rest apparently diverted to fulfil a similar order from another preserved railway . |
| 6 | He had come across very few others not of the Kind , with that strength of vision . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , on the Right Bank the renewed German endeavour had met with even less success . |
| 8 | This was one U Nu , but not the deeper man , who had searched for so many years for enlightenment . |
| 9 | Perhaps it meant that Cindy Hill had revealed at least some of whatever it was that bothered her , which was a good thing , really . |
| 10 | I repeated and repeated the twenty-third psalm , as I had done in so many kinds of danger before . |
| 11 | She could see that her hair had grown by perhaps half an inch . |
| 12 | In the end Father landed a job that was n't too bad , working as a technical engineer for Marconi 's , whose goods he had bought for so many years . |
| 13 | They had dreamed of somewhere that was beyond the fence . |
| 14 | Being able to say these difficult , and intensely private things to her mother before the funeral was the trigger she wanted to be able to grieve genuinely and begin to feel the loss of her mother , rather than nurse the resentment she had had for so many years . |
| 15 | And people stressing a cost factor as important were relatively likely to say they had had at least some choice between different credit arrangements , whereas people stressing convenience were relatively likely to say there had been only one possibility ( though differences were small ) . |
| 16 | Salim Malik had played on when former Essex team-mate Gooch slipped in an inswinger , and when Malcolm bowled a second bouncer in an over to Inzamam-ul-Haq , umpire Palmer no-balled him . |
| 17 | A career diplomat , he had served in the Washington embassy in 1970-83 and as head of the Foreign Ministry 's United States department in 1983-86 , and had participated in nearly all Soviet-US summit and foreign ministerial meetings since 1983 . |
| 18 | Toby had been married twice and divorced twice but , without the problem of children to provide for , had escaped without too many financial penalties . |
| 19 | Of the seats , 5% deviated from the electoral quota by 20% ( though this was down from the 39% of seats that had deviated by that much on the 1982 register . ) |
| 20 | Candida Gray , Candida Gray , a name that she had known for as many years as she had known any such names ; she had not read as many of the novels as she ought to have done , but she had read one at least , and that one she actually remembered . |
| 21 | Hans Hartmann , oceanographer with the Aquatic resources Conservation Group in Seattle , however , said that scientific studies had been misdirected insofar as they had concentrated on how much of a commercial species can be taken out of the sea , rather than understanding of how the sea itself works . |
| 22 | She saw affection and concern in his eyes , but imagined that the love was gone , the intensity of the gaze , that knowingness that she had shared for so many years as they had fought to find this place through the forest . |
| 23 | Few under 75 had spent any time in such homes but more than half those dying when they were aged 85 or more had spent at least some of the last year of their lives in one . |
| 24 | It is fairly clear that they had rediscovered at least some of Mendel 's laws before his work was known to them . |
| 25 | The scowl too had gained at least another twenty years of maturity . |
| 26 | But she had hoped for too much , and Matthew remained unforgiving , not actively unfriendly towards her but always out of her reach . |
| 27 | He tried to tell himself that it did n't matter , that you could find the same situation all over the West End ; back in the long-lost days of sweetness and light he could remember taking his wife to a performance of Jesus Christ , Superstar when it had gone through so many cast changes that no-one was even bothering to count , and what a bunch of wankers they 'd been . |
| 28 | Your colleagues had gone to so much trouble to organise the party . |
| 29 | But when he and his family got back to their cabin they seemed upset because we had gone to so much trouble . ’ |
| 30 | It followed the track it had followed for so many years , awakened the parties to rage , apathy and contempt in precisely the usual places and ended , as it always did , in a drawn game . |