Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She planned a chart where Emma would receive an animal sticker to stick on a wall chart when she had completed any of these required tasks . |
| 2 | Jean-Paul had stopped worrying about that weeks ago . |
| 3 | They crowded round the Bookman , apart from Mr Rumback who had fallen asleep in all the excitement , and asked him hundreds of questions all at once . |
| 4 | He had come unscathed through all his ops and then was reluctantly persuaded to become Navigation Officer , but he could n't bear being grounded . |
| 5 | Only a few of the Christian residents appeared to notice that the Syrians had come prepared for more than just a few days ' stay . |
| 6 | It had carried many on this journey . |
| 7 | But the fact that they had supposed this at all suggests some appreciation of cattle-raiding 's implicit purpose . |
| 8 | We also talked about experiences of being victims of offences and found Blacks had significantly less , and had reported fewer of these to the police . |
| 9 | The old quarrel between Corinth and Megara was about borders ; by the end of the archaic period Corinth had absorbed most of this frontier zone of good arable land , so that Strabo ( 380 ) can say of Krommyon , which is halfway to Megara , that it ‘ was once Megarian but is now Corinthian ’ . |
| 10 | Later , Mr Springer said he had attended dozens of these meetings in recent weeks all over his district . |
| 11 | Gould had seen one of these bowers in the Sydney Museum , which had been presented by his brother-in-law Charles Coxen , and was determined to observe the construction in use in its place of origin : |
| 12 | Cages , nets , animals in captivity , humans who were pushed lower than animals — he had seen enough of that . |
| 13 | The cast was young , and only the producer and myself had seen any of those days . |
| 14 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 15 | Edward , who had seen both of these creatures on the television screen , pictured the tiny animals , with their sad wise old men 's faces framed by silky manes , their long , long tails , their agility . |
| 16 | She had done enough of that over the past few weeks , and had found that it led nowhere . |
| 17 | The house was big and old , with a lot more corridors and rooms and unexpected turns than seemed necessary , but she had done enough of these ‘ entertainments ’ to be familiar with the lower storeys . |
| 18 | But er , if Freud had done any of that , you 'd never hear the end of it . |
| 19 | Mr Andrews cited the example of an A&E nurse who had done suturing for many years . |
| 20 | She had made sure of that . |
| 21 | Akagi and Kaga were the first of the battle fleet to arrive home , on December 24 , they were welcomed as heroes , Japanese propaganda had made sure of that . |
| 22 | He had grown fond of this place , and now , soon , he was to leave it . |
| 23 | After three months he had written most of this work and was well enough to return to his beloved Kidderminster . |
| 24 | Diana had felt unwell for much of the early part of her pregnancy , and was not quite herself , which made the process of settling down to married life all the more difficult . |
| 25 | I had felt ill for several months . |
| 26 | By 1933 he had produced nine of these , bearing such titles as The Seven Stabs ( 1927 ) , The Professor 's Poison ( 1928 ) , and The Factory on the Cliff ( 1928 ) . |
| 27 | This had occurred due to these latter two persons deciding to marry one another and leave the profession . |
| 28 | Leo had dragged himself up from the East End , where his father , a first-generation Jewish immigrant from the Ukraine , had worked as a tailor 's cutter ; James , on the other hand , had had one of those privileged English upbringings . |
| 29 | But after 10 years of Tory rule , he had had enough of that approach to politics . |
| 30 | I had had enough of that . |