Example sentences of "[adj] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By that time , the French had already built an extensive network in North Africa , the Uganda Railway was under construction , the Germans had begun their railways in both Tanganyika and South West Africa , and the British had driven their railway through the Sudan as part of their reconquest of the upper Nile . |
| 2 | When the two sides met again at the hill station of Dalat in April 1946 it was obvious that the immediate disagreement was on the nature of the Indochina Federation and whether or not the Government of Vietnam , which the French had already recognized , was anything more than the Republic of Tonkin . |
| 3 | Newcastle 's natural nervousness soon reasserted itself for the French had clearly not abandoned their plan and had even managed to bring the transports at Nantes , on the River Loire , to join those further up the coast at Vannes in the Gulf of Morbihan , about midway between St Nazaire and Lorient . |
| 4 | In fact , Mike Connolly , of Sainsbury , said the French had slightly increased their share of the supermarket group 's sales at the cheaper end , although other retailers had a different experience . |
| 5 | While these momentous events were unfolding in Belgium , on 7 August the French had improvidently launched their long-planned assault into Upper Alsace and on 14 August a greater force — the First and Second armies — thrust into Lorraine , south of Metz . |
| 6 | In point of time , however , one can find the specific civilian proposition from the US Ambassador in Paris a week earlier , on 11 December , not only to extend aid to Vietnam from the President 's special $75 m. fund but also recommending direct ‘ Marshall plan ’ financing for Indo-China : which the French had tentatively asked for at the beginning of 1949 . |
| 7 | The mundane details of the denunciations , the decrees against Jews using the telephone or travelling on the Métro and so on had brought home to him that the French had both suffered by and been complicit in the Holocaust . |
| 8 | Even before the discussions during and after the Delors Report ( April 1989 ) , the French had largely accepted the German demand . |
| 9 | By eight o'clock the French had still not attacked . |
| 10 | The French had obviously suffered a debâcle but , in itself , the opening up of the frontier with China might only have been a prelude to Chinese invasion and ensuing catastrophe . |
| 11 | The French had hardly anchored and landed their cargo of arms , powder and money when , on 3 May 1746 , Commodore [ later Admiral ] Thomas Smith sailed into the loch , in HMS Greyhound , mounting 24 guns , accompanied by two smaller vessels , the Terror and the Baltimore . |
| 12 | He therefore concentrated his attention not on the Kent coast but on the Isle of Wight , where the French had actually landed in the past and which , once occupied , could serve as a base to paralyse and capture Portsmouth . |
| 13 | It has been suggested that the French had always regarded the Bourequats as a bit different . |
| 14 | The French had certainly prepared expertly . |
| 15 | This had also happened elsewhere , for instance at Beishida . |
| 16 | The Royalists ( Chetniks ) under Mihailovitch had played a major part in anti-German resistance through much of the war , although increasingly they had been in direct conflict with Tito 's partisans , who saw them as the main enemy in establishing a Communist post-war Yugoslavia , and this had also led to them acting on occasion in concert with German forces . |
| 17 | This had also been the headquarters of the two armed forces of the Croatian puppet state , the notorious Ustachi and the Croatian Home-Guard , or Domobranci . |
| 18 | This had also been Marie 's experience , even though she had got married when she was four months pregnant : |
| 19 | This had also triggered an assertive economic nationalism amongst a small but significant sector of the Latin American elites . |
| 20 | At the same time he announced that economic austerity measures , including a freeze on public sector promotions , were to be " reconsidered " ; this had also been one of the demands of the workers ' organizations . |
| 21 | This had also featured strongly in the campaign of former Californian Governor Jerry Brown , whilst Clinton advocated a " play or pay " model whereby businesses would either offer health cover to their employees or would pay mandatory contributions into a national health insurance fund to protect those without cover . |
| 22 | Indeed , as a matter of political necessity at home , it had to assume ( and this had also weighed heavily with Roosevelt ) that a return to the " old power politics system " would be abhorrent to the great mass of Americans . |
| 23 | This had generally taken three forms , of which the largest was remittances to their families by the large number of Palestinians from the territories working in the Gulf and elsewhere . |
| 24 | Michael Jordan of Cork Gully and Timothy Beer of Peat Marwick McLintock said they had recovered £13.2m of the missing deposits but £5.5m of this had already gone to liquidation costs and legal fees . |
| 25 | This had already been binned but I binned the offer as well , just in case I ever came close to considering it seriously . |
| 26 | This had already begun to gather steam with the publication in February 1988 of a White Paper which promised special protection for the nuclear industry . |
| 27 | William Tidbury stated that on 11 December he had been working until late at a local farm ( this had already been borne out by the farmer ) . |
| 28 | This had already become a subject of crucial significance in England during the course of the seventh century . |
| 29 | This had already necessitated the disposal of books from its library , including a complete set of Audubon 's Birds of America . |
| 30 | In 1880 , this had already been discerned , but most men gave a growing acceptance to democratic institutions because they seemed to provide not a threat to , but a guarantee of , liberal standards . |