Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead he had relentlessly bombarded her with the same questions . |
| 2 | Bernard , appreciative that Laura in New York would be treated as a queen of design , an extraordinary superwoman who had singlehandedly achieved it all , accordingly decided not to go on this trip . |
| 3 | She had badly wanted him to kiss her , of course — so badly that she knew it simply must not happen … |
| 4 | True , I had the somewhat grisly T-shirt and track-suit bottoms which had gamely seen me through a two-hour run-through , but they were in a state and could probably have walked unaided to the BBC on their own . |
| 5 | The President accepted the law , but under protest , delighted that the Assembly had thereby provided him with a weapon which could be turned against them when the need arose . |
| 6 | Many of his friends had laughingly warned him that he now had ‘ double trouble ’ . |
| 7 | But 15 weeks ago , a 17 year old trainee monk walked into Brixton Police Station and claimed Bishop Peter had indecently assaulted him . |
| 8 | She had sarcastically asked him if he 'd tracked Ryan down in order to make him pay it back , and he 'd said yes . |
| 9 | I remembered that I had promised to see her about some poems she had written and had nervously asked me to read . |
| 10 | She was going to swim in the lake , alone , because both Nick and her father had expressly forbidden it . |
| 11 | But there were still a great many bodies to come in , the Army Medical Corps man had grimly told her . |
| 12 | Someone had eventually taken her through the bustling , towering giant world of the shop to where her mother waited . |
| 13 | The charges arose from the 1988 Fitzgerald Commission established to investigate accusations of corruption in the Queensland state government during Sir Joh 's period of office , which had eventually forced him to resign [ see pp. 35975 ; 36817 ] . |
| 14 | John O'Connor has described how , following up what was a Zanuck initiative , a Warner Bros team had eventually produced I am a Fugitive , a film that outspokenly denounced the Southern chain-gang system by using a true story that had received a great deal of publicity , the studio 's gamble on topicality really paying off when the real-life subject of the story was actually rearrested just a few months after the film 's release . |
| 15 | Many of his acquisitions had eventually bored him and had been disposed of by auction , but the most accomplished and entertaining individuals were rewarded , once they became too old or unattractive to perform their requisite duties , by unconditional liberation from the household and a generous pension . |
| 16 | The authorities had eventually allowed him in , but only to see a spokesman . |
| 17 | US officials had been alarmed at the size of Moda'i 's estimate and had unofficially rejected it . |
| 18 | The anticipation overcame her fear , and there was fear : the thing which had most made her hesitate was the thought of the deaths of her two friends . |
| 19 | She stared at him as he sipped his lager , thinking it was a shame his compassion for handicapped people had n't extended to her sister when she had most needed him . |
| 20 | They had previously been kept in an 80 gallon tank where the owner had rarely seen them . |
| 21 | She had rarely seen him outside the context of the family . |
| 22 | She had rarely heard him speak with such vehemence , never seen him so angry . |
| 23 | In the past , the facility had rarely let him down . |
| 24 | Her mind was too busy seeing the man who had wearily let her go , not wilfully , as she had always imagined , but finally , for what he thought was her own good . |
| 25 | He was , after all , not a passionate man , and the new Jenna who returned from France had rather alarmed him . |
| 26 | Stephen had rather expected he would do that . |
| 27 | He had rather enjoyed it and it had helped him to keep his mind off what might be happening to Snodgrass and to Floy and Fenella . |
| 28 | ‘ I asked ( I was trying to fit in what we 'd heard of him ) about his having passed out of the Ecole Normale so high , which had rather impressed me . |
| 29 | They were the disciples of one Malam Ibrahim , a teacher of the Koran whose studies had slowly convinced him that the Jesus of whom he read in its pages was the mediator through whom the prayers of the faithful are offered up to the All-Merciful . |
| 30 | He had successfully stamped it out in his own country , and if he 'd been rather too hard on the jews at the same time , well why not ? |