Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The methods he used then had altered little over the years , but he was aware change was in the air . |
| 2 | He had rolled over just a little , and opened his eyes . |
| 3 | Mr Justice Simon Brown , the High Court judge , had expected too high a standard of care and expertise in the firm 's performance of its duties towards the Luxmoore-Mays . |
| 4 | Perhaps out of guilt , Harriet discontinued her writing and stopped seeing Mill , with whom she had dined alone twice a week , in order to nurse her husband . |
| 5 | Ryan had come along just a few weeks after they took the braces off her teeth and the tits started to look like something ; in those few weeks Jo had had more attention from boys than she could handle . |
| 6 | He had come home late the previous evening from a tedious conference to find Sylvie in a strangely seductive mood , a champagne bottle at the ready , her favourite music pulsing through the house . |
| 7 | Katherine 's mother had come home only the day before they were due to leave . |
| 8 | De Gaulle believed that the Cold War , which had frozen not just the superpowers but the rest of the world in a paralyzing confrontation between two blocs , was coming to an end and that , within each bloc , the hegemony of the respective superpower was dissolving . |
| 9 | It had picked up quite a bit of loose weed which kept jamming in the top ring , but this was periodically removed by Mr Gardner who , by now , knew I had a good fish on and had been warned that any foul-ups at the net would seriously hinder his future fathering capabilities . |
| 10 | Hell , her system had absorbed just about every ju-ju the GenTech labs could leak illegally onto the market , and she was still kicking . |
| 11 | But , to her relief , the voice that greeted her from the other side of the oak door , though indistinct , was that of the porter she had met so briefly the evening before . |
| 12 | He could truly reflect that he had done not only the best , but the only thing possible . |
| 13 | And even if Harvey had written just about the whole of Amaranth 's damn speech , she would , were it to be successful , be more in need of his favours than Harvey 's . |
| 14 | She had felt most wonderfully the power surging up behind her eyes gushing like a warm fluid inside her skull , and her eyes had become scorching hot , hotter than ever before , and things had come bursting out of her eye-sockets and then the piece of chalk had lifted itself up and had begun to write . |
| 15 | In a country where education had expanded so rapidly the gap between young and old had accelerated so teaching the adults to read and write was becoming urgent . |
| 16 | Now , there was this Greek fellow called Archimedes , who had built up quite a reputation for himself . |
| 17 | I recall how disappointed I was in the morning to discover that the pebbles I had collected so lovingly the evening before were just a pile of dull stones now that they had dried and were away from the beach . |
| 18 | His wife had died just over a year earlier ; one of his daughters was a teacher in Tel Aviv , the other a painter , and Shlomo Green was himself a sculptor of some distinction . |
| 19 | This was precisely the situation in which Charles and Elizabeth found themselves in 1772 ; and we may surmise that they did what brother John was to do later — in the absence of Thomas the Calvinist , who had died just over a year previously , they honoured Charles 's elder brother William by making him the godfather and giving the child his Christian name . |
| 20 | My mother had died unexpectedly only a few months before . |
| 21 | Presiding from the centre of the dais , Mr Crumwallis looked as if he had told wearily over every second of every minute of the watches of that night . |
| 22 | A further setback for Kampuchea is an unnatural imbalance in the population ; for every seven women there are now only three men since Pol Pot had wiped out practically a whole generation of men . |
| 23 | Gibeau felt that we had had too easy a time of it at Canjuers and for the last three days introduced a new punishment . |
| 24 | Professor Forrester Cockburn , head of the university 's department of child health at the sick children 's hospital , said the move had angered not only the university staff at Yorkhill , but the health service staff who work with them in a team effort at the hospitals . |
| 25 | More importantly , the accident at Three Mile Island in the United States had shown how quickly a reactor could get out of control , and had cast its shadow over the reputation of the pressurized water design . |
| 26 | A Ven Gajdusek , she swiftly realised , who had recognised not only the Skoda but its occupants too , and , from the look of fury on his face , was not very pleased to see any of them . |
| 27 | Beirut had become not just the cultural capital of the Palestinian movement but the headquarters for Yassir Arafat 's Palestine Liberation Organisation . |
| 28 | The CNAA had become not just the ‘ safety net ’ validating body envisaged by the Robbins Committee and others , but also a major factor in the implementation of the new binary policy and the promotion of colleges , not to ‘ university status ’ by inclusion in the existing pattern of universities , but to a major element in a binary approach to what constituted ‘ higher education ’ . |
| 29 | By the late 1970s the state sector had become not only a harbour of inefficiency , as in many ‘ developed ’ countries , but also a greenhouse of the hybrid values emerging in Africa many of which were inimical to efficient methods of low-cost production . |
| 30 | To them , the Kenneth Williams voices and the Kenneth Williams faces , the flared nostrils and that snide look that had become as much a trademark as the ‘ stop messing about ’ sounds on radio were instantly recognizable . |