Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time I reappeared , Lisabeth had cheered up enough to smile weakly , having adopted the invalid-on-the-sickbed routine . |
| 2 | Angie Bowie : ‘ The Christmas before recording ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , I had flown back home to see my parents . |
| 3 | The robe had tripped me each time I had stooped low enough to exert sufficient force , so I had taken it off . |
| 4 | Stephanie had broken off breathlessly to announce this in English to Anneliese , adding with a determined glitter of hostility in her eyes , ‘ What time does your flight go tomorrow , Signorina Hastings ? ’ |
| 5 | It had fallen too slowly to break but the wine had flowed out and made a dark stain like blood on the white candlewick . |
| 6 | She had looked round once to see if her guests were all in situ and observed that almost all the chairs were occupied . |
| 7 | He had played in Spain but after a car accident had come back here to recuperate . |
| 8 | Tyson 's past had come back eerily to haunt him — this time not in street violence but in the way Desiree Washington , a competitor in the Miss America Pageant accused him of the crimes that were to see the world heavyweight champion 's status reduced to that of a common criminal . |
| 9 | Perhaps he had discovered a seam — did you have a seam of garnet ? — and had come back secretly to exploit it , and … |
| 10 | He said afterwards that he had understood Terry had come out just to allow him to reach his goal , but it was an unfortunate end to a splendid innings , which made him the first English batsman since Barrington in 1967 to score three consecutive centuries in a series . |
| 11 | It was an uneasy night , pondering the risks of leaving illegally , with a barely seaworthy vessel , from an island of which we had read so fondly in Wallace and had come so far to see . |
| 12 | We had come so far to find this . |
| 13 | She hated excessive make-up and had applied just enough to emphasize her striking looks . |
| 14 | Foley , stony-faced , told him that the dirty tricks brigade , led by Charles Fraser-Smith , had turned up earlier to make a replica of the prisoner 's uniform , correct in every detail . |
| 15 | I assess the student 's ability and level of performance , and I might come to the conclusion that they had done pretty well to get those grades ; or it might be obvious that they could have done better . ’ |
| 16 | I was even planning which tank I would be moving my 43 babies ( I had carefully counted the eggs ) to when they had grown up enough to go into a larger tank . |
| 17 | Juan Bosch Gaviño , 82 , on March 15 told the Dominican Liberation Party ( PLD ) , which he had formed in 1973 after breaking from the Dominican Revolutionary Party ( PRD ) , that he had decided not only to resign as party leader but also to withdraw his party membership , because of the bitter fighting between the right and left wings of the party . |
| 18 | However , the Ombudsman found that the UK and Gibraltar funds were closely linked and that , if the Department had moved swiftly enough to revoke the UK licence , the Gibraltar fund could not have continued to exist . |
| 19 | Jessamy had promised faithfully not to open them until the morning of her birthday , and she had kept her promise . |
| 20 | Although no clear winner emerged from the debate , most commentators believed that Clinton had performed well enough to consolidate his position as the leading contender . |
| 21 | Manville remembered now , what it had all been about , why he had needed so desperately to return to this , at least once before he died . |
| 22 | In the end I had got just enough to make the short film , but it did n't tell the story I had hoped to tell , and I was angered by my subject 's persecution — by the way the whole species was treated . |
| 23 | Luckily for them they had been fed and wormed regularly but no one had got near enough to handle them or consequently to put a halter on them . |
| 24 | The meeting at Münchengrätz in 1833 had increased his confidence not only vis-à-vis the Ottoman Empire but also in respect of the West , for Austria and Russia ( and subsequently Prussia ) had agreed not only to maintain the integrity of the Sultan 's possessions , but also to guarantee each other 's Polish territories and to assist any established regime which found itself threatened by insurgents . |
| 25 | In a while we had drawn close enough to sight the planet itself — a slowly enlarging spot of brightness on the ceptor screens — by which time Posi had contacted the spaceport . |
| 26 | The book was , apparently , the kind of tale for which all young people had been waiting and its heavy sales in the United States had amazed him ; the first hardcover edition had sold fast enough to surprise even his capable publisher . |
| 27 | The next place he tried , the loneliest , was the rear turret , and that was once he had fathomed out how to work the heating system . |
| 28 | He had stayed long enough to see the first stage of the counter-inflation policy accepted and the clash and confrontation of two years earlier replaced by a new partnership . |
| 29 | ‘ As I passed the boy I saw in the mirror the car had pulled out sharply to overtake and I just heard the bang . |
| 30 | Bathed in the bright sun of Italy and glittering with social and commercial success , it seemed to her that it had always been menaced by dark shadows , many of which , Constance sometimes thought , had sprung up almost to punish her for leaving this remote area so early in her adult life . |