Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scratches on his cheek had healed quickly and he had died unblemished . |
| 2 | The public bar had filled considerably and the general clatter of laughter and bustle all added to the good feeling of anticipation which was beginning to invade Yanto . |
| 3 | Comfort changed the water in the bowl she had filled earlier and sponged Julia 's face and neck and hands and arms again . |
| 4 | But after an hour she had sewed enough and she felt a shift in the air . |
| 5 | To be sure , we had a great Empire — we British had conquered far and wide . |
| 6 | The Arab barely had time to think before Li Yuan had leant forward and , looping the reins quickly over his hands , squeezed the Arab 's chest gently with both feet . |
| 7 | I traced the problem to the fixing rivets inside the wheel rims which had rusted badly and were puncturing the inner tubes of the 7,50 x 16 Avon Rangers . |
| 8 | Perhaps then the current expanding universe resulted not from a big bang singularity , but from an earlier contracting phase ; as the universe had collapsed the particles in it might not have all collided , but had flown past and then away from each other , producing the present expansion of the universe . |
| 9 | Even the sparrows and the robin redbreast had flown away and all that was left was one fat old pigeon sitting in the lawn . |
| 10 | With cool detachment he had explained clearly and in terms that were easy for her to grasp how the various items of equipment worked , only lapsing into irritation or sarcasm when he thought she was not making enough effort . |
| 11 | The producer paused for a moment to make sure he had heard correctly and then burst out laughing , flicking a nervous glance at Terry . |
| 12 | Leila had said it would be presumptuous for them all to descend on Roirbak like an unwelcome plague , so had communicated ahead and reserved rooms in a cheap hostel popular with nomad natros . |
| 13 | One of them had broken away and appeared to be attempting to struggle upwind . |
| 14 | Most of the Orphists were Cubists who had broken away and formulated new stylistic and aesthetic principles . |
| 15 | They noted that " inflation expectations had eased considerably and , with the exception of some countries [ reportedly a reference to threats of industrial action in Germany ] wage and price pressures have been declining markedly . " |
| 16 | There was a fine blue sky with great white clouds in the distance , and even the restless tiger had stopped still and was dozing , his great eyes staring out peacefully on the world as he occasionally licked a paw and groomed himself . |
| 17 | The voices had stopped now but an illuminating mist seemed.to fill the room with a white incandescent glow . |
| 18 | The shelling had stopped now and it was certain that someone had been killed or wounded , maybe the chap in the next slit trench a few feet away . |
| 19 | He had been the first to hear the sound of the car approaching , and the quickest to identify it , for he was the only one who looked completely unsurprised as it rolled gently alongside the Aston Martin , while all the rest had checked momentarily and turned to gaze . |
| 20 | This year Jenna was going on holiday with Glyn , a fact which brought a twinkle to the bright eye of her scheming neighbour Shirley , but they were not lovers , no matter what Shirley thought , and Jenna had pondered long and hard before agreeing to the holiday . |
| 21 | From her student days Pavlova was fired by stories of her legendary predecessor Marie Taglioni , who had travelled widely and appeared to great acclaim in St Petersburg during the 1837–9 seasons . |
| 22 | It had travelled well and the colour emphasised her astonishing fairness . |
| 23 | Johnson had travelled hopefully and was about to arrive : the following day he would leave the comparative comfort he had hitherto enjoyed , and head into the wilds , and not in a coach but on horseback . |
| 24 | The wind had fallen away and the evening was spread out across the river , still , languid , suffused with golden light . |
| 25 | At about 2 a.m. he had fallen downstairs and slumped in a heap by the front door . |
| 26 | La Clemenza di Tito is one of the last of the opere serie , a genre which by then had fallen more or less totally out of fashion . |
| 27 | Balor had fallen headlong and was lying on the forest floor , one foot caught and held by the root of a huge old ash Tree that protruded from the ground . |
| 28 | The fog had fallen overnight and did not seem to be showing any sign of becoming less thick . |
| 29 | In the past week she had been arrested , charged with smuggling heroin , released on bail , learned how to sail a forty-foot yacht , and was now listening to the man she had fallen deeply and irrevocably in love with talk about his colleague 's connection with the most vicious and widespread criminal organisation in the world . |
| 30 | You did a good job , you know , ’ and she had leaned forward and patted his cheek as though he were a well-behaved little boy . |