Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Especially of interest was the fact that one of the two men clearly experiencing difficulty with section ( c ) on the examination paper , Howard Brown ( Morse wondered why his wife had n't been willing to cover for him ) , had filled in section ( e ) with the correct date of arrival , 27 October ; or , to be more precise about the matter , ‘ 2 October ’ . |
| 2 | A friend had plucked up courage to ask the Sisters of Mercy for food and the Sisters insisted on visiting the family , where they found women making matchboxes in a house infected with smallpox . |
| 3 | Currently he was rereading Tace 's autobiography of which the author had completed only Book One , dying in the midst of describing his thirtieth year . |
| 4 | He had meted out vengeance to his chief enemy , Grant , so any further attack upon mere pawns would be unnecessary , therefore illogical . |
| 5 | The allegation of the defence had to be met and properly dealt with , so the matter would be returned to the justices for them to look at the circumstances and come to a proper determination after they had heard further evidence . |
| 6 | By contrast , almost half of subjects who had received solely outpatient consultations had unmet needs ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 7 | It was a continuation , in effect , of the 1930s Special Areas policy ( which had received further impetus from the Barlow Report on industrial location ) and from the carry-over of wartime controls which gave the government far more effective power in its sphere than it had ever possessed [ Brown , 1972 ] . |
| 8 | Millions of people throughout the country lived in buildings which were either due for demolition because they were unsafe , or had received only emergency repairs . |
| 9 | I had given up hope of a reply when , after two months and three days , a letter came which began , ‘ We find your proposals perfectly feasible … ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ But it made a difficult situation impossible , caused distress to her and her husband and sounded the death knell on the marriage which until then , although in difficulties , neither of them had given up hope of saving . ’ |
| 11 | We had given up hope , then suddenly there you were , a little stranger … ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we saw in the town meetings , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them together saying we want our future back . |
| 13 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them saying we want our future back . ’ |
| 14 | She said : ‘ We had given up hope and by the time the precinct opened again we had all gone home . ’ |
| 15 | One afternoon , after she had given up hope , stirring aïoli on the doorstep , Frederica heard the crunch of wheels on stones and saw the motorbike winding down the cliff with its two insect-heads swaying in harmony above it . |
| 16 | Finally , when many had given up hope and the liner was nearing Europe , the Belgian government announced that it would admit 200 of the passengers . |
| 17 | Mrs Burrows nursed Betty through a dangerous illness when the doctor had given up hope on her . |
| 18 | Joshua Morris had given up hope of ever reaching the promised land . |
| 19 | If anyone had given up hope in life , it was I. ’ |
| 20 | However , this doe snot apply so much to our other son , Robert , who is a private music teacher in Glasgow , so we see quite a lot of him and his wife and their baby son , who arrived just over a year ago , when we had given up hope of any more grandchildren . |
| 21 | Two years earlier Jones had given up work as a hod carrier when Wimbledon signed him from Wealdstone for £10,000 . |
| 22 | Within a month he had given up frustration and made his Christmas presents instead . |
| 23 | Leonard had given up architecture to help with the business . |
| 24 | She had given up meat . |
| 25 | When he began writing again , he had given up realism for allegory about the conflict between , among other things , science and religion . |
| 26 | Back at home with their baby he was quick to be the one to change the nappies and administer the bottle feed once Liddie had given up breastfeeding . |
| 27 | By recording body temperatures throughout the day of groups of well-adjusted shiftworkers , intolerant shiftworkers , and day-workers who had given up shiftwork because they could not tolerate it , Reinberg has demonstrated that it is indeed the best-adjusted group whose circadian rhythm was most immutable . |
| 28 | Father had given up tobacco and alcohol to send me £2 15s ( Pounds 2.75 ) a week to make ends meet . |
| 29 | Prior to Haibara 's testimony , Noboru Takeshita had given further evidence to the Diet concerning his role in the affair . |
| 30 | She had travelled somewhere way up north — Newcastle or something . |