Example sentences of "had [verb] in the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frequently , when Eddie Stratton had flown in the past , his heart had missed a beat or two whenever he heard the ‘ ding-dong ’ tones on the aircraft intercom . |
| 2 | Perhaps his tactics were more skilful ; perhaps the gentry were reconciled to paying taxes by the prospect of gain from monastic lands ; perhaps the King was wise in these last years to avoid taxing the poor , from whom overt resistance had come in the past ; perhaps there was a genuine fear of invasion from France . |
| 3 | Whatever hurts he had suffered in the past , with his Leo open-heartedness , he was one of nature 's true romantics . |
| 4 | In ecumenical circles of late we have been reminded that ‘ remembering ’ in the biblical context was far more than simply recalling to mind what God had done in the past . |
| 5 | The Education Department did n't like the situation ; they did not co-operate with advice or materials as they had done in the past , and in fact the island 's Director of Education accused Mrs M of ‘ acting illegally ’ . |
| 6 | The message was clear : Beijing University had a special character and wanted to go its own way , as it had done in the past , and lead other universities in the process . |
| 7 | At the moment there is n't even a charging regulations came in the schools immediately cut back because it was a very definite barrier that was put up to prevent schools that prevented schools from from taking up that sort of er offer that they had done in the past and it 's a major problem . |
| 8 | I sought a subject , as I had done in the past , by looking at my TV screen to see what was going on the world . |
| 9 | But American imperialism was on the alert to intervene as it had done in the past ’ ( Roy : 1964 , p. 346 ) . |
| 10 | She heard words like ‘ impulsive ’ , ‘ trusting ’ , ‘ hot-tempered ’ being mentioned , and she slotted the adjectives into her own life , thinking back to all the things she had done in the past which conformed with the personality being dissected by the astrologer . |
| 11 | NATO and Warsaw Pact negotiators in Vienna were indeed moving towards broad agreement on ( i ) the exchange of military data ( which began to flow far more freely than it had done in the past ) ; ( ii ) intrusive verification regimes ; and ( iii ) " asymmetric " force reductions owing to Warsaw Pact superiority . |
| 12 | That was precisely what women had done in the past — sit back and wait for men to make the running . |
| 13 | Her plans to move away from London meant that she was no longer able to continue as director of the Display Team and she was warmly thanked for everything she had done in the past . |
| 14 | She frowned ; she might be prepared to forget the past to help the work situation , but she had no intention of letting this man think she had forgiven what he had done in the past . |
| 15 | Contentment scented the air like lavender , and the very walls seemed to hold memories and echoes of all the warmth and happiness it had sheltered in the past . |
| 16 | In the immediate aftermath of the emancipation most landowners felt even less warmly towards the imperial bureaucracy than they had felt in the past . |
| 17 | In general , the baby 's wishes had tended in the past to be suspect , and the mother had been expected to look for some non-permissible motive behind them , in the form either of dangerous ( probably erotic ) impulses or of a rebellious determination to dominate the mother-in either case , constant control of the child was called for , and only the baby who had submitted himself completely to the mother 's control could be called a good baby . |
| 18 | Also , despite what had occurred in the past between them , SHe needed Cab so badly now it hurt more than the bruises in hir belly . |
| 19 | Impoundments that went beyond that and involved policy change had occurred in the past , but these were either justified under the Commander-in-Chief clause in the Constitution , or had been the subject of consultation with congressional leaders . |
| 20 | Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future . |
| 21 | The fundamental answer to the ‘ boy labour problem ’ , however , lay in state action to prohibit employers from exploiting juvenile labour , just as the State had acted in the past in ‘ the case of children and women ’ . |
| 22 | Was it not too restrictive to preclude the possibility that forces of greater intensity had acted in the past ? |
| 23 | His problems in composing this lecture were no doubt compounded by the fact that he had had in the past expressed no great liking for Goethe 's poetry — " I ca n't stand his stuff , " he had once told Ronald Duncan — and in any case he now found public addresses a complete waste of time.Immediately on his return from Germany , he travelled to the United States for a visit of two months . |
| 24 | She remembered with sadness all the neighbourly contacts they had had in the past — Lowell 's anxiety when Edward had gone missing on his new bike during a November fog and his tireless search until he was found — his ham-fisted efforts to assist her in Ben 's absence when the washing-machine had flooded the kitchen — his quiet piano-playing , when his hands were still capable , at the end of a noisy party when all the guests had gone home . |
| 25 | To make sure that none of the macho details went to waste , the full , inside story of Washington 's awesome display of military prowess was entrusted to Steven Emerson of US News & World Report , who had shown in the past that he knew how to treat a government ‘ scoop ’ with respect , and who could be relied upon to resist the kind of sceptical impulse that sometimes afflicts reporters with a wider readership . |
| 26 | By the end of the 1970s the American electorate was in a fluid , dealigned state with parties no longer able to provide the degree of structure that they had contributed in the past . |
| 27 | The Pentland Firth and Scapa Flow , Lerwick and Sullom Voe were soon as familiar as the south coast and the Solent had become in the past , but familiarity would never make us treat these places with anything but respect and I tried never to take chances . |
| 28 | The IMF had to intervene in the past and in the future it would be the European Monetary Institute . |
| 29 | She fried the chicken in some butter , put the vegetables on to boil , remembering the salt at the last minute , and was debating how to make a cheese sauce that bore some resemblance to those she had eaten in the past , when he walked in . |
| 30 | We were disliked because of things that had happened in the past and we did n't need any motivation when we kept hearing that sort of talk . |