Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] [det] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah this was really just Yona and and me you know I mean Yona obviously felt very strongly about her father standing in the rain on the picket line worked hard all his life an it had come to this really being sacked er they were just newly sacked then . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , we did find a general mood in Whitehall and amongst the senior civil servants that their system was not perfect and that the time had come for some fairly radical changes . |
| 3 | Since the days of Henry III at least , kings had claimed from each newly elected bishop and from some monastic superiors a living or pension for a royal clerk . |
| 4 | Alexander Vass was smiling , that smile she had seen before that totally transformed him . |
| 5 | She had felt like this once before , and recently , she thought with sleepy vagueness . |
| 6 | I asked him if he 'd misheard the name of the pub and he said gosh how original , he bet nobody had thought of that before and he 'd be sure to tell the landlord . |
| 7 | For weeks we had talked of little else . |
| 8 | His Mum had acted like this before , all secretive , he remembered now , when they 'd taken him to choose his bike , his last birthday . |
| 9 | Since the first file had arrived off the train from Pot'ma , Yuri Rudakov had dreamed of little else than his triumph of interrogation over Mikhail Holovich . |
| 10 | And at the end of the first week he asked me how I would feel if we sold the domestic appliances businesses ( the most profitable part of the group at the time ) , and I said I did n't know how he had got to that so fast , but that it was fine with me . |
| 11 | Die-hard conservatism represented a continuation of the fears and anxieties that had surfaced in those most respectable publications , The Times and the Morning Post , with their debates over the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the Cause of World Unrest , at the end of the war . |
| 12 | as if to match the tense atmosphere inside the car , the sun had disappeared behind some ominously black clouds that had crept over the horizon . |
| 13 | It upset him , as much as it would have upset his wife , to know that the boy had eavesdropped on this most intimate family moment . |
| 14 | Maxim had run into that before , on exercises , when he wanted to dig his troops in among the growing vegetables , and probably Hitler 's soldiers had been no more welcome . |
| 15 | Then , when the truce had run for little more than three years , Richard II was deposed and murdered , his place as king of England being taken by Henry IV , the son of John of Gaunt . |
| 16 | What had happened to those carefully hoarded letters , she wondered , and who would tell Stan when he arrived ? |
| 17 | Alyssia hesitantly walked in , and almost immediately saw her friend by the cash register , looking with interest at a couple of oldish women who had put on some very garish dresses and were inspecting themselves in the mirror . |
| 18 | Some later public monuments also included portraits of children , and by the second century AD the notion of including portraits of children in public monuments had spread to some highly influential provincial families . |
| 19 | And , indeed , he must have been a tough little lad to have survived it all , though it was to take its toll on him eventually ; by the time he died in far-away London at the age of 29 he had lived through some very harsh times indeed . |
| 20 | It would appear Henry Ford had insisted on this ever since that crush , so that he could always how he stood financially . |
| 21 | He had failed in this so far but then he had hardly tried very hard . |