Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] [adv] " 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 | On their return to the beach , an hour 's flashing of torches was needed to catch the attention of the landing craft crews who had withdrawn too far from the beach according to one report . |
| 3 | Since the first disappointments at Verdun , the All-Highest had withdrawn still further into his fairy-tale world , a world whose contact with reality relied principally upon those improbable ‘ trench anecdotes ’ that were imported from the front for his insatiable consumption ; or often simply invented . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Their lives lay with the capitalist world he had hated so bitterly in his own youth . |
| 6 | Desperately she fought back the tears , not knowing why they had formed so swiftly . |
| 7 | was a fish that had jumped too far from the water . |
| 8 | Not quickly enough , however , and once again the night was split by flame and thunder as fire-sticks had roared terrifyingly close to them . |
| 9 | If the BRAC workers had collaborated more closely with the village practitioners , then the lobon-gur solution would probably have been placed on a better footing in the Bangladeshi villages . |
| 10 | A thin , silky mist hung over the city , reminding Merrill of the water-colour townscapes which , in her gentler moods , Elise had painted so well . |
| 11 | His pupils were developing minds of their own , behaving out of character , no longer the dull but devoted group of enthusiasts he had taught so constructively for six months . |
| 12 | He stopped all experimentation at this stage to examine the information he had gathered so far . |
| 13 | Wimpey revealed it had plunged even deeper into the red last year . |
| 14 | I had to agree so here is Batts ' agony column back again for the benefit of the LUFC mailing list . |
| 15 | His plan had misfired as badly as mine . |
| 16 | Instead she had leant even more on him and he just could n't take it , so had chosen the easy way out . |
| 17 | Part of the reason why the shareholders had to wait so long for a return was that the original capital had been only 10,000 guineas , and the Company financed itself by fairly short-term loans from the merchants with which it did business , so the shareholders stood at the end of a long line of creditors but could expect substantial returns on their money in the end if the Company survived . |
| 18 | I mean , I do n't expect my Dad had to wait as long for his tea . |
| 19 | ‘ Where the devil 's Frank with my bag ? ’ the doctor snapped , for — ; as much in shock as in pain — Emilia had fainted away again . |
| 20 | One or other of them drafted a statement which was a flat denial that he had misbehaved either sexually or politically . |
| 21 | He said the situation with Watertight had been ‘ unfortunate ’ but they had realised very quickly there was no shortage of alternative backers . |
| 22 | When he had finished Morse had the strong feeling that what he had just implied was surely true : there must be some connection between the disturbing events which had developed so rapidly around the Wolvercote Tongue . |
| 23 | But by the nineteenth century knowledge itself had expanded so rapidly , and interest in locating published accounts of very specific knowledge units had developed so greatly , that all previous expedients had to some extent broken down , and the new public libraries proliferating in the UK , the USA , and elsewhere gave an added impetus to invention . |
| 24 | The physical sciences had developed quite dramatically in the previous half-century , when such apparently disparate phenomena as heat and energy were unified by the laws of thermodynamics , while electricity , magnetism and even light itself converged towards a single analytical model . |
| 25 | My breasts had developed quite early , and although I was proud of them it was also embarrassing , especially at school . |
| 26 | His whole body spoke a subtle language of command ; something that had developed quite naturally and unconsciously during the long years of his rule . |
| 27 | These working practices had developed quite informally , and had become ‘ institutionalised ’ in a set of unwritten rules that in the end failed to satisfy anyone completely . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Beneath the respectable front of many local organisations there had developed only too frequently , as the men of the north-east had earlier predicted , a form of legalised crimping operated between Board of Trade staff at Mercantile Marine Offices and boarding house keepers who were only too happy to supply seamen at a profit to themselves . |
| 30 | A design on this sort of scale would be worth ten times the run-of-the-mill jobs she had completed just recently . |