Example sentences of "had [adv] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharp was unable to name specifically the brands which had most successfully taken this approach , but confirmed the list was dominated by the large US multinationals such as Ford and Coca-Cola . |
| 2 | In the past the ATB had perhaps not paid enough attention to this aspect . |
| 3 | Britain had perhaps never faced such a large demand for a product which , since cotton could not be grown in the country , it was incapable of producing itself . |
| 4 | I had no idea what the country was like , I had purposefully not wanted any description of the landscape , city or culture . |
| 5 | ‘ Joan , when I departed for Ludlow , it was with a heavy heart — for it seemed to me we had only just found each other , ’ Edward told her . |
| 6 | She had only ever felt this physical response in Harry 's presence . |
| 7 | They had attempted to visualize his world , as they had so often visualized each other 's boarding-schools . |
| 8 | Tony and I unpacked the Upski parachutes that we had so lovingly tended all the way from the UK . |
| 9 | Pakistan and the United States would eventually have to accept direct talks with the PDPA , he said , adding that neither country had so far implemented any peace process . |
| 10 | I had heard stories , including horrendous tales of harassment by the police from other people in the black community but my family and I had so far escaped such treatment . |
| 11 | He had already clearly laid down his view in his opening speech to the session , in which he recognised that perestroika had so far made little impact on the acute social and economic crisis . |
| 12 | I wanted to continue my studies as a postgraduate at U.C.L. I was now interested in modern linguistic research , but knew very little about it , since linguistics had so far made little impact in the U.K. , and there was no teacher in the Department who could adequately supervise me in that area . |
| 13 | The silhouette , instantly recognisable by its wide hips and shaggy curls , was David Murray , an older boy in the House who had so far taken little notice of the latest royal presence in the school . |
| 14 | Yet several weeks into the scandal , the New Yorker complained that the mess had so far mocked all attempts to baptize it . |
| 15 | The trouble was that the land belonged to a family who lived in London and owned parcels of land all over the country and had so far resisted all attempts to relinquish this innocuous piece of British soil . |
| 16 | President Bush for his part stressed the importance of progress under the bilateral Structural Impediments Initiative ( SII ) talks , the third round of which had taken place on Feb. 22-23 between US and Japanese trade officials , but which had so far produced little concrete progress toward the elimination of what the USA termed Japan 's unfair import barriers . |
| 17 | And Fazal said : ‘ You had better not do that if the Mamur Zapt is about . ’ |
| 18 | Dorothy decided she had better not laugh this time , though she wanted to , so she said cautiously : ‘ I do n't know , Hank . ’ |
| 19 | It stated the soldier 's undying love for his wife but also made it plain that he realised that they could not live in harmony , so they had better not see each other . |
| 20 | It was then we saw that the small rescue boat from the lifeboat was standing by so they had obviously not thought much of our chances . |
| 21 | My nose had long since lost all feeling and I massaged it back into life . |
| 22 | She had been brought up as a chapel-goer , and two generations back her family had been staunch Wesleyans , but she herself had long since dropped any pretence to faith of any kind , and now considered all religious observation as ridiculous frivolity . |
| 23 | There was at first some confused skirmishing over the actual terms of the Charter — the College 's solicitor , Mr France , had apparently not seen some amendments and had agreed to others from the practitioners ' side without fully informing either the College professors or William Dick . |
| 24 | She had apparently already put such a proposition to her mother on the telephone . |
| 25 | He had always slightly despised those enchanted by things touched by the great : Balzac 's ornate walking-stick , Robert Louis Stevenson 's flageolet , a black lace mantilla once worn by George Eliot . |
| 26 | Looking at her , swathed in shawls though the room was too warm and the day itself not cold , Wilson had once more felt those twinges of alarm which she resented . |
| 27 | On the basis of the documentary evidence , then , it would appear that Molla Husrev still held the kadilik of Istanbul in Rajab 876 but had almost certainly left that office by Shawwal 877 . |
| 28 | Max has to establish a relationship with the soldiers : ‘ He had quite early realised that part of their life depended on their being left to do things by themselves and not being interfered with . |
| 29 | It concerned a young woman , Ann Fook , who had allegedly not passed any urine naturally for about 26 weeks , ‘ during which time it was vomited up ’ . |
| 30 | By the end of September stripping to bare metal of the lower nose area for inspection had sadly also removed half of the nose art and the aircraft was completely gutted as the VMMU got to grips with their final overhaul . |