Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The robe had tripped me each time I had stooped low enough to exert sufficient force , so I had taken it off . |
| 2 | It had fallen too slowly to break but the wine had flowed out and made a dark stain like blood on the white candlewick . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We had come so far to find this . |
| 5 | She hated excessive make-up and had applied just enough to emphasize her striking looks . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Jessamy had promised faithfully not to open them until the morning of her birthday , and she had kept her promise . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Years of celibacy had made her highly susceptible and he , a demon lover , had known exactly how to turn her on . |
| 17 | And it is likely that there would have been thousands more if more people had known exactly how to raise a complaint with him . |
| 18 | Others who had coped well enough to begin with on those scanty mill wages , who had even picked themselves up and patched things together , the first time that demon of bad trade had halved their weekly pay ; the first time there had been sickness and doctors ' bills to eat up anything they had been able to put by during the good times — never much ; the first time a husband had suffered injury at the mill or the foundry , which meant no weekly pay-packet at all . |
| 19 | Milan had asked both not to play . |
| 20 | Even so , she had lingered long enough to watch a tanker ploughing a parallel course , though in the opposite direction , probably bound for the big oil refinery . |
| 21 | And she had wanted so badly to stay alive . |
| 22 | She had wanted so desperately to find out the truth about Luke , but now that was the last thing she wanted to know . |
| 23 | He had hoped then also to find a publisher who was prepared to offer a comparable insight into the operation of an academic publishing house , but no publisher had accepted the brief , possibly for fear of revealing intimate company details . |
| 24 | Scarlet had been willing to admit the truth of her words but had ceased too soon to concentrate , her mind already elsewhere as she wondered whether , if she could express herself differently and more coherently , her therapist might not have another , and a clearer , image of her . |
| 25 | Tom Dawson had hovered on the brink between life and death , and all the time they had worked so desperately to save him , she had been aware that it was n't just one life they had been fighting for but two . |
| 26 | No , it was being here with Fen , knowing that they were alone in the house , remembering the measures he had taken once before to restore warmth to her body . |
| 27 | So I flipped some cattle from the farm of and right between Egilsay and Rousay just a short distance , oh maybe a quarter of a miles or thereby , and oh did the shipping perfectly well and and went home and by the time I got home the message had arrived back before me that the there were two old cattle among the younger ones that the fellow had put there just to feed up and the last we saw of them was going up over the island and that was okay we thought everything was okay . |
| 28 | He had tried once already to talk to Nicholas about it , and had been kicked on the ankle by le Grant . |
| 29 | She had tried hard not to fall in love with him , preferring to play the field and maybe trap a man whose heart was fancy free . |
| 30 | She had tried hard not to think about what might happen to them when the men returned , but , as evening began to draw in , panic fluttered in her chest . |