Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All those years ago they had thoughtfully placed it unusually low on the wall to make it easy for the child Maggie had then been to reach . |
| 2 | In fact , his parents had both been excruciatingly polite to her , but that had only made it even more obvious that she was n't the kind of wife they wanted for their clever , ambitious son . |
| 3 | It had been held every year since I was five , and I had only missed it once , the year I was in Nigeria . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's the first time we 've been banned anywhere , ’ said Barry , adding that singer Michael Stipe had been involved in the production of the video and that the rest of the band had only seen it once . |
| 5 | Christina had only encountered it once before when he was hell-bent on buying Crystal Springs . |
| 6 | Bill had only parked it here a few minutes ago . |
| 7 | And we had better do it quickly , because the trees and clumps are rapidly disappearing through the ravages of storms and neglect . |
| 8 | Perhaps I had better do it now . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Some people think I am crazy but I thought I had better do it now while I have the chance . ’ |
| 10 | Not surprisingly , when the Report was published , the Federation 's leaders were far from satisfied : ‘ For all practical purposes , the Beveridge Report is useless … and we had better ignore it entirely , concentrating on action which will secure our just rights — AND NOW — not at some vague future time . ’ |
| 11 | Because they believed — and we had better believe it also — that if they could make individuals conscious only of the need for personal gratification , they would have neither desire nor energy to combine and work for the downfall of the enemy . |
| 12 | It is those individuals with a conviction that their way is best and the others had better learn it fast that cause so much distress and wasted time when groups of people from different cultural backgrounds meet . |
| 13 | Perhaps I had better hear it now . ’ |
| 14 | She cheered up after writing the experiment because she had obviously done it rather well . |
| 15 | Brenda 's cheeks still burned with shame when she remembered her mother 's insistence that she should visit Hoggatt 's to see where her daughter was going to work , although Chief Inspector Martin , the Senior Police Liaison Officer , had apparently thought it perfectly reasonable . |
| 16 | He had delightedly hung it there . |
| 17 | Tribout , says Moon , tried to repeat Ben 's Maginot Line at Bolx just before leaving for America — he had already repeated it once — and failed . |
| 18 | How perceptive he is , but did n't he know that the BBC had already produced it about two years ago with Frank Finlay and Miriam Karlin ? |
| 19 | But the woman had already put it away . |
| 20 | Its contract expired earlier this month , but last year an independent consultancy recommended California replace its existing system , it had already purchased it outright from G Tec for sixty million dollars . |
| 21 | They had always had it hard . |
| 22 | But she , who had run fifteen thousand miles to find her freedom , she who had driven Jim out of the house rather than wash his dirty teacups , was now a slave to someone who never washed their cups , who was never interested in her ideas , who never wanted to talk , hear , understand , sympathise , who hurt one 's body as no one had ever hurt it before and who chained one forever to mountains , not just of washing-up , but of washing itself . |
| 23 | From almost every hilltop it was possible to see the great column of smoke , still far , but much nearer than they had ever seen it before . |
| 24 | The noteworthy thing , considering this half.century of official recognition , is the regularity with which the multi.media library concept was hailed as a new idea and canvassed with a sense of surprised discovery , as if no library or librarian had ever considered it before . |
| 25 | In 1939 , Pétain refused to be a candidate for the Presidency , recalling that he had once described it as only ‘ suitable for defeated marshals ’ . |
| 26 | Mr Chad explained how Harris had tried to burn the envelope but police had later pieced it together . |
| 27 | Harris 's companion had also visited It before . |
| 28 | It was due to take place the last week in August and Mrs Bennett who , since the death of her husband , had lived with her married daughter , had promised to ‘ see it through ’ , as she put it ; but she had also made it quite clear that she had no desire to stay on permanently , as Celia had hoped . |
| 29 | Rage , part of it self-directed because she had temporarily forgotten it too , made her voice shake . |
| 30 | The cultural field expands thus to such a point that it bursts through the barriers that had previously contained it as only a de-limited field . |