Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time the pub had filled enough so that the punters were giving me dirty looks for taking up so much room , I felt I had discovered enough to put two and two together and make five if not six . |
| 2 | The night chosen for the attempt , Friday 9 September 1715 , was suitably dark and stormy but , as so often , Scottish throats had imbibed too freely , Scottish tongues had wagged too readily and the raiding party , scaling the walls in the darkness , were driven off or captured . |
| 3 | As soon as she realised what had happened she had jumped down guiltily and run home . |
| 4 | His plan had misfired as badly as mine . |
| 5 | One or other of them drafted a statement which was a flat denial that he had misbehaved either sexually or politically . |
| 6 | His whole body spoke a subtle language of command ; something that had developed quite naturally and unconsciously during the long years of his rule . |
| 7 | The form of mills had developed only slowly since the Middle Ages , but by the middle of the eighteenth century the technology of wind and water power was being investigated scientifically and there was competition for mill sites because of enlarging industrial needs . |
| 8 | The work progressed well until it was discovered that the original iron braces inserted into the stonework by Scott had rusted very badly and expanded several inches , forcing the stonework upwards . |
| 9 | The bus from Francistown had broken down again and the passengers disembarked , squatting in the cumbersome shade of a baobab tree . |
| 10 | His room in Leeds was with a Mrs Hubble at 21 Ladysmith Road , and on the return journey he had stopped only once and again at the Merrie England . |
| 11 | She had stopped so suddenly that he obviously thought he 'd distressed her . |
| 12 | We had stopped there once or twice , but as yet I had never been inside . |
| 13 | I suppose they must be , thought Lydia , shrugging , and wondering also whether the modern tendency , which was American in origin , to tell everybody everything before they 'd even got the first olive off the cocktail stick had percolated as far as here . |
| 14 | The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart . |
| 15 | Its eyes and part of its face were gone , and its belly had swollen up hard and tight . |
| 16 | And Julius 's breathing had altered radically almost before she had finished speaking . |
| 17 | The leaves had fallen earlier here and some of the trees were already skeletons against the autumn sky , mingling their inky branches with the black cables of the electric pylons . |
| 18 | Many ringsiders felt the 22-year-old from the Mount Tallant Club had won quite convincingly and there was quite a few surprised faces when the final scoring was announced . |
| 19 | The Dean and Chapter had recently forbidden parking there and had won as far as cars were concerned , but the local inhabitants had always parked their bikes there and continued so to do . |
| 20 | It had vanished as surely as the name of her village had been erased from the map of Israel . |
| 21 | The latter had vanished as punctually as he had appeared . |
| 22 | It had vanished as silently as if it had been only a figment of her imagination . |
| 23 | The expression of good-humoured contempt had vanished as quickly as it had appeared , and suddenly Rostov realised that he had missed an opportunity to relax the tension which existed between them . |
| 24 | The German Communist Party had not only failed to carry out.the revolution but had vanished as rapidly as the Social Democrats . |
| 25 | A fine attacking batsman , he had been in the England team for much of the time since making his debut in 1982 , but after his four centuries in the summer of 1984 he had disappointed too often and his average scarcely reflected his ability — in 57 Tests he had made just over 3,000 runs at 34 before the tour began . |
| 26 | Some had fared considerably better than others , leading to a differentiated society . |
| 27 | Hari nodded , she was glad of the trade , orders had dropped off lately and now she no longer had the boots of Edward Morris to repair , she was finding work hard to come by . |
| 28 | One night we had sat up late while Mum and Dad were at The Golden Cup and had cut up old Christmas decorations into tiny squares and diamonds and then hidden them in envelopes . |
| 29 | By this time the wagonettes had caught up so that the rest of the day proceeded according to plan . |
| 30 | Juliet had noticed how David had looked up sharply while Miss Rose was talking . |