Example sentences of "[prep] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very parochial stuffiness that the Stones reacted against had somehow become an alluring and reproachful memory . |
| 2 | Anybody who believes that Yugoslavia could be dealt with as Saddam Hussein 's Iraq was dealt with had better look at the terrain . |
| 3 | The writers whose work they had drawn upon had never become part of the filmmaking community . |
| 4 | The official he had spoken to had only said : |
| 5 | yeah , erm yeah it was different erm with it only being role play it was a bit erm difficult to keep up with it sometimes and actually keep it going like , erm if it was the real life situation outside right you 'd know that the person you were talking to had more had been through that situation before |
| 6 | These clothes she had on had once belonged to some Duchess , she said . |
| 7 | The lessees were entitled to search for copper , lead , iron ore and iron stone , or mine such as had already been discovered , with liberty for " … ingress egress & regress … " |
| 8 | Her history was not such as had ever permitted her to procure any but the meanest of genteel occupations . |
| 9 | A similar ‘ flood of rumours and speculation , such as had hardly been the case after any other event ’ , also spread like a bushfire in other parts of Germany . |
| 10 | When Camille had choked on an Aztec cuff-link , a sizeable piece of jewellery such as had then been fashionable , Constance 's mum had held her upside down by the ankles and banged her until she disgorged it , while Scarlet had knelt in the unutterable anguish of one about to be bereaved , determining to destroy herself without hesitation should Camille not survive the experience . |
| 11 | Through the Lafayette — and perhaps more particularly through the heroism of Victor Chapman at Verdun — there began to develop in the United States an appreciation and sympathy for the poilus themselves such as had never been provoked by any other battle . |
| 12 | The assertion of a doctrine of episcopal ‘ collegiality ’ as expressive of the Church 's ministerial leadership , in continuity with the first group of twelve apostles , was far removed from a theology of papal ‘ monarchy ’ such as had long dominated Roman ecclesiology . |
| 13 | All that bottled-up vitriol for the man he 'd been waiting for had actually been for her . |
| 14 | It seems like only yesterday we were here like this before , as if the months in between had never been . ’ |
| 15 | Not that he would have felt nearly so hard done by had only his wallet suffered by it . |