Example sentences of "had [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her widowhood had thankfully not reduced her circumstances too drastically and had certainly not altered her sense of style . |
| 2 | Lucien and Jeopardy sat down upon rough wooden boxes that had presumably once held the instruments . |
| 3 | At first the spy thought he had stumbled on something worth investigating : Wordsworth carried a telescope , and Coleridge was surveying the river ( he was in fact making notes for a projected long poem , The Brook ) ; furthermore , Coleridge 's oft-repeated references to ‘ Spy Nosy ’ were assumed by the Home Office spy to be aimed at him personally — he had presumably never heard of Spinoza , the philosopher of the moment . |
| 4 | For whatever reason , Neil , who had almost looked forward to relieving his body 's urgent demands — he seemed to have been continent for years , and McAllister 's arrival in Vetch Street had most inconveniently revived his dormant senses — found that he was disgusted with himself most of all . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The doctor was no more successful in gaining entry to the room , and he told Mrs Putt that the fall had most probably affected her son 's mind . |
| 7 | Wilson felt only dimly aware of Miss Blagden 's kindness but later came to realise this sign and evidence of human concern had most probably saved her that time from real madness . |
| 8 | She found herself peering into nooks and crannies , not that he could manage to conceal himself into one , with his breadth , and was almost disappointed when she realised that he had most probably gone out . |
| 9 | One effect of the nation 's defeat was that many of the elements of ‘ Japanese spirit ’ , as well as the individuals who had most vocally espoused them , were discredited . |
| 10 | It was Edmund Wilkie , polymath , to whom in the unlikely Edwardian luxe of the Grand Hotel in Scarborough she had most bloodily surrendered her virginity . |
| 11 | Godfrey Thomson , who had most effectively established intelligence tests as a means of identifying children with potential for a grammar school education through Moray House tests , saw his life 's work as establishing equality of access to further education for all children . |
| 12 | But this diversity meant something specific : protection against the interruptions in supply and the price shocks which the miners and the oil sheikhs had most recently provided . |
| 13 | Opinion poll ratings which had indicated persistently poor support for Labour had most recently shown 63 per cent support for the opposition National Party and only 28 per cent for the government , and widespread dissatisfaction with Palmer 's leadership . |
| 14 | That Ben Braithwaite had most ardently desired her was beyond question . |
| 15 | Ulster 's opposition to Home Rule long pre-dated Law 's leadership and he had rarely even spoken on Irish affairs in parliament before becoming leader . |
| 16 | These ministers had mostly either left the west of Scotland because they could not reconcile their consciences to episcopacy when it was restored there , or had come to Ulster to evangelise and serve the Scots settlers . |
| 17 | The Salon , which had mostly only exhibited Berlin and German painters , put on exhibitions with an international character in 1891 and 1892 . |
| 18 | In his diary , on 20 January , Carter added , oddly for a man who had rather recently praised the Shah , " And I believe the taint of the Shah being in our country is not good for either us or him " . |
| 19 | The hearing on the constitutionality of the CPSU and RCP was terminated , since the parties had effectively not existed since August-September 1991 . |
| 20 | The Russian side attributed this to the political crisis in Estonia [ see p. 38733 ] , but Estonian Foreign Minister and delegation leader Lennart Meri claimed that troop withdrawals from Estonia had effectively already begun when 10,000 troops had left in September 1991 . |
| 21 | Its President , Igor Smirnov [ see p. 38657 for his election ] , said in an interview on March 30 that reunification had effectively already begun , and that the Dnestr Republic favoured a federative structure with Moldova , not complete separatism . |
| 22 | In the past the ATB had perhaps not paid enough attention to this aspect . |
| 23 | People who asked her why she did n't make use of her talent and give singing lessons had perhaps not tried to do this while living in two rooms over a greengrocers , and looking after young children . |
| 24 | Unlike Napoleon 's mother , Elena Petrescu left no memorable quotation or hint that peasant-wisdom had perhaps already prepared her for her world to be turned downside-up again . |
| 25 | We were in no position to ensure any security for Pateman … he had built up the District but had perhaps nearly exhausted his pioneering drive . |
| 26 | Doctor Nesbitt had suggested that the shock had perhaps temporarily deranged him , and up till this moment he had agreed with him , but suddenly now the young fellow seemed to know what he was about . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | While the Roman law had perhaps never died out in the north Italian cities and was studied in the early eleventh century at Pavia , where the great lawyer , Lanfranc , archbishop of Canterbury under William the Conqueror , taught for a while , an interest in the texts of Justinian was not widely aroused until the discovery of a manuscript of the Digest in c. 1070 . |
| 29 | They would , at the same time , thereby have removed any suspicion that they had perhaps underhandedly supported the South African Rugby Board , one of their founder members , in ways contrary to the demands of a vociferous international opposition and an unrecognised ( in international rugby circles ) South African Rugby Union . |
| 30 | Their style of life was not much different from the ordinary Zuwaya : they had perhaps recently acquired better housing , but the new villas were not segregated ; food was no more generous , nor more delicate in a rich man 's house ; schooling and medical treatment were uniform . |