Example sentences of "had [prep] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In key respects the views of Whitehall coincided with those of the Central Electricity Board , which had for long felt that its own , indirect control of power station construction was inadequate . |
| 2 | Radical change by Government edict was not thought to be appropriate in England , where teachers had for long seen themselves as equal partners in the process of educational development and change . |
| 3 | The impressive Charter which we had for long presented as our original 1727 ‘ birth certificate ’ is not . |
| 4 | [ Philip Leapor ] informs me she was always fond of reading every thing that came in her way , as soon as she was capable of it ; and that when she and learnt to write tolerably , which , as he remembers , was at about ten or eleven Years old , She would often be scribbling , and sometimes in Rhyme ; which her Mother was at first pleas 'd with : But finding this Humour increase upon her as she grew up , when she thought her capable of more profitable Employment , she endeavour 'd to break her of it ; and that he likewise , having no Taste for Poetry , and not imagining it could ever be any Advantage to her , join 'd in the same Design : But finding it impossible to alter her natural Inclination , he had of late desisted , and left her more at Liberty |
| 5 | She was getting a little fed up with the habit he had of never allowing her to finish a sentence . |
| 6 | Mademoiselle , really , said Miss Potts , almost forgetting the rule the staff had of never finding fault with one another before the girls . |
| 7 | This Renaissance castle had until recently served as a children 's home . |
| 8 | He had until recently presided over a cautious freeing of expression and politics . |
| 9 | Polls had until recently shown support for Mr Patten but now a majority wants him to back down . |
| 10 | Sammy , who had sensed Willie 's misery and had until now remained motionless , began to bark and run after his tail . |
| 11 | The case of Zubaydat revealed other problems which had until then received scant attention . |
| 12 | In 1981 NORP was taken over by the Bangladeshi Government , so that the funding that NORP had until then received directly from UNICEF was now channelled through the Government . |
| 13 | The most contemporary poet he had until then encountered was Siegfried Sassoon . |
| 14 | On demurrer it was held by the majority of the Court of Queen 's Bench that while the authorities had until then confined liability for enticement to the relation between master and servant ( which that between Lumley and Wagner clearly was not ) yet the plaintiff 's claim succeeded . |
| 15 | Mrs St Albyn had before long heard the unpleasant rumours concerning the new tenants at Alfoxden , and ordered , in spite of Tom Poole 's intercession , that on no account should they remain at the mansion beyond the following midsummer . |
| 16 | Nevertheless she loved it just the same but had to sadly wave it goodbye , much to the relief of her cat who took a dim view of the competition ! |
| 17 | So I think bringing out the national agreement , although it was a great development for the union , and these docked a lot of the work they had to beforehand had to do , it certainly did n't help the relations and the entries in the trade union movement . |
| 18 | Ah come on , just bloody get on with it , they had to fucking score did n't they ? |
| 19 | Oh they had to fucking swap them so |
| 20 | I had to consciously tell myself what I was going in for and not to use the trip downstairs as an excuse to have a ‘ little ’ rest on the sofa after my thirty-four minutes of hard work . |
| 21 | Finding things the reverse , at first I had to consciously think switch down for slow down . |
| 22 | He no longer had to consciously listen out for the psychic interference that pervaded the island . |
| 23 | The final connections into the East German telephone cables were made by John Wyke , MI6 's top technical expert , who had to carefully splice in the connections so that the East German operators would not notice any change in line quality or impedance . |
| 24 | The librarian had to carefully plan aspects of the project , in which the students would create their own information database on local pubs and clubs using the MICROVIEWDATA software , to cover aspects such as the involvement of other staff , the amount of supervision needed by students , the appropriateness of using the software for this kind of information i.e. was the project information-led or technology-led ? |
| 25 | I had to practically bite my knuckles to keep my hands off you for the last three weeks , and I did it because of your innocence ! |
| 26 | They stayed where they were for another minute or so , although Jack had to practically hold Ho down while they waited . |
| 27 | I had to practically draft the report myself ! ’ |
| 28 | As a result of the huge curiosity our stance aroused , we had to continuously explain and defend our politics . |
| 29 | Grandparents could not count on natural loyalty : rather ; they had to positively create their roles by winning a child 's affection . |
| 30 | ‘ It was like a scene in some stricken Bosnian town where people were scavaging for food , ’ said Bernie today , ‘ Demand is just unbelievable — I had to eventually leave my own telephone off the hook at midnight in order to get some sleep . |