Example sentences of "had [verb] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plans for the new terminus at Raven Square on the outskirts of Welshpool included station buildings … but the rebuilding of the Sylfaen-Welshpool section and the reclamation of land for the station where the Sylfaen brook had meandered soaked up all available funds . |
| 2 | The conc areas he had arranged conflicted severely with the dispositions of our own Bde , and he was ordered to assemble the whole force in a camp at VIKTRING . |
| 3 | He was faithful to his wife — except for an occasional nurse , which she had to agree did n't count — and was n't into drugs or gambling or politics . |
| 4 | She could tell that Dr Neil was looking at her most sceptically , although he was touching her so gently that the black fear which she had felt before she had fainted did not return — and pooh to his suspicions ! |
| 5 | Here a thriving brewing quarter had developed made up of alewife , innkeeper and alehouse brewers . |
| 6 | I went on to say to him that I wished to make it clear that my disquiet did not relate to any particular name , but if in fact the names that I had heard turned out to be a correct report , and he published the List , the List would support legitimate criticism . |
| 7 | That bright green blazer we had to wear did n't help much either . |
| 8 | I was going to say that everyo ebs absolutely everyone is against war but not many people actually joined the United Nations after the war for a very small subscription or not many groups of people have many members in it , and of course because there were so few members in it , they a they went one particular way which a lot of people that had joined did n't agree with and so they came out of it . |
| 9 | Only stare up at the gaping hole in his cage and feel the terror of the sky beyond and look at where the broken end of the great branch that had fallen spiked out into the wild sky above as if broken part lay about him , its smaller branches and torn bark fretting on the cold wind . |
| 10 | Then the crowds were running , and the ones who had fallen did not get up . |
| 11 | The comfortable middle-class life she had enjoyed fell apart when parents John and Marie split up . |
| 12 | The network of health and social work support she had enjoyed fell away , but she led a full life and drove her own car , though she still lived with her parents . |
| 13 | Everything that the day had contained came together in Ruth 's head . |
| 14 | Pain was credited with a ‘ probable ’ for the German fighter he had claimed shot down , but in fact the Luftwaffe suffered no loss or serious damage to any of its fighters on this day . |
| 15 | In the euphoria of getting through the first night , Charles had forgotten how much concentration that effort had taken , and found it difficult to get back the rhythm of his lines with the A.S.M. The sleepless night and the excesses which it had incorporated did not help , either . |
| 16 | Other punishments she had imposed had not worked so she smacked the girl with the slipper ‘ as a last resort ’ . |
| 17 | But then , those few of Elise 's men friends whom Merrill had met had all been charismatic in one way or another . |
| 18 | Then , as he was trying to think of something to say to her ( all the speeches he had prepared had somehow been predicated on the fact that , although in distress , she would be lovely , well dressed , and as sweet-smelling as he remembered her ) , an emaciated individual in a green jacket pushed his way rudely between them . |
| 19 | Her brother 's explanation of what the sonogram had revealed had understandably upset her — yet another complication ! |
| 20 | But what she had seen had certainly given her a shock . |
| 21 | The one licence they had seen had very few conditions attached . |
| 22 | The few living ones he had seen held only despair . |
| 23 | Then the significance of what he had said came home to her . |
| 24 | What I had said had clearly got to Pikey in a major way . |
| 25 | It encouraged me to feel that something I had said had evidently gone home . |
| 26 | Denis rallied the defeatists with a robust speech : what everyone had said showed how pretentious were some of the demands made by the party for us to interfere here , there and everywhere . |
| 27 | " You do n't know Quiss began , then gave a start as the last part of what his adversary had said sank in . |
| 28 | She believed in love , but she had been too impatient , her eagerness to experience it persuading her to believe that what she had felt went deeper than liking and a mild physical attraction . |
| 29 | The wages bill had quadrupled , the amount of extra household and furnishing equipment she and Brian had bought did n't bear thinking about . |
| 30 | The churned-up snow around the spots where both men had died had not helped the investigations either . |