Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of the local black community were enraged by reports that the driver of the vehicle , Yoseph Lisef , 22 , who had sustained only minor injuries , was quickly taken away from the scene of the accident by a private Jewish ambulance service , whilst the more seriously injured children were left to wait for attention from a city ambulance crew . |
| 2 | I listened in even though I had heard most of it before and then we were told that anybody who had never been in a canoe before had to carry out capsize drills . |
| 3 | When the Michies moved in five years ago , they had to carry out extensive renovations . |
| 4 | Hess commanded a troop ship during the Second World War and the vessel 's echo sounder had traced out curious mountains on the floor of the Pacific . |
| 5 | But although there was ample room lengthways for sitters to draw back from the blaze sufficiently for comfort , there was less space broadways-on , so that the pairs had to sit fairly close together — which suited Alexander Ramsay very well , for he shared a bench with Mariot . |
| 6 | One other respect in which Pascal is a modem thinker is in his view , which he shared with the Jansenists , that language had proven too strong for mystery , so that theology had become merely a branch of rhetoric . |
| 7 | In Russia imperialism had developed alongside a semi-feudal agrarian structure and the bourgeoisie had proven too feeble to overthrow the absolute monarchy . |
| 8 | They felt that with the Emperor 's death , their Christian God had deserted them , or had proven incomprehensibly capricious ; or more positively they felt that Allah suddenly was shown to be more powerful and |
| 9 | The able-bodied had to saw up old railway sleepers and then chop up the pieces for sale as firewood . |
| 10 | Then we had to grind best white sandstone to powder and scour all the top surfaces , including the ceilings . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , that 's a good start ! ’ she thought , looking around in the hope that someone had witnessed so successful a landing , but of course they had n't . |
| 12 | But recently , the City of Westminster successfully prosecuted both an owner and builder , who had stripped out large quantities of fine panelling from an early eighteenth-century house in Soho , on a total of no less than fourteen charges . |
| 13 | They had wrested factory management from the hands of the very right-wing Congress of Mining Industrialists which had disallowed even neutral forms of workers ' control in 1917 . |
| 14 | He had pled not guilty to the murder at the couple 's home in October 1991 . |
| 15 | They had pled not guilty at their trial to the three charges . |
| 16 | The police had realised how serious the incident could be , and managed to find Robert before he was physically harmed . |
| 17 | As a result , said Dowdeswell , they had realised how lucky they were with their hospital social workers : ‘ The hospital teams have been very well protected within social services . ’ |
| 18 | The old Poor Law Board and the Medical Office had developed highly distinctive forms of administration which were fundamentally conflictual in terms of aims and professional practice . |
| 19 | The second , whom Dr Macdonald saw the following day , was a young pregnant woman who had developed rapidly increasing oedema , a dangerous symptom in pregnancy . |
| 20 | He was thus never exclusively Gloucester 's man , but by 1480 had developed sufficiently close links with the duke to stand surety with other ducal retainers for Gloucester 's associate John Huddleston . |
| 21 | He was thus never exclusively Gloucester 's man , but by 1480 had developed sufficiently close links with the duke to stand surety with other ducal retainers for Gloucester 's associate John Huddleston . |
| 22 | During the 18th century there had been a slavish adherence to Isaac Newton 's methods and notation long after Continental mathematicians had developed more efficient techniques . |
| 23 | British filmmakers could come up with films that would overcome the resistance of American exhibitors to non-Hollywood products , as the $5 million grossed by The Red Shoes suggests , but they would n't do so in sufficient quantities until Rank had developed more sophisticated ideas about how to cajole the right sort of product from his writers , directors and producers . |
| 24 | In a study of which authorities had developed more sophisticated budget systems and corporate organisation , Greenwood et al . |
| 25 | Maybe the Colonel had intimated how easy it was to have an accident on the awful Danu roads . |
| 26 | She had to cope completely alone . |
| 27 | The Libyan airline had flown only domestic flights since aviation sanctions were imposed in April [ see p. 38883 ] . |
| 28 | Not when he had stooped so low , exploited the fact that she was a woman , used his own sexual ego to ridicule her and dominate . |
| 29 | Mr Alistair MacDuff told a High Court jury that Princesses Faria and Simiya Al Sabah had meted out dreadful treatment to her on a 1983 visit to their Bayswater home in London . |
| 30 | He had explained how important it was to recharge the batteries . |