Example sentences of "there had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present managers of both cooperatives are from out with the Western Isles , although in Ness there had previously been a local man . |
| 2 | It was formed in response to the urban riots in the late 1960s , although there had previously been community activity concentrated on winning historic and architectural recognition for the area . |
| 3 | There had previously been problems in 1938 in Bethnal Green , Limehouse and East Ham when many members became anti-German . |
| 4 | There had previously been a plan for gaslit subway streets through which horse-drawn traffic could pass . |
| 5 | Kennan met MacArthur for lunch on 1 March ; MacArthur stated that there had previously been only one successful military occupation in history and this had been Julius Caesar 's achievement in the subjugated barbarian provinces . |
| 6 | Areas where there had previously been little opportunity for women to have waged work ( the coalfields of the old peripheral regions were the classic example ) would provide such a reserve of labour and would therefore be attractive to manufacturing industry . |
| 7 | It appears that , although there had previously been no abscess in Miss T. 's lungs , one had developed . |
| 8 | Upon the facts the decision seems to have been correct so far as the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher goes , for all that the defendant had done was to plough up some forest land on which there had previously been no thistles but from which , for some unexplained reason , an immense crop of them sprang up in two successive years . |
| 9 | The bright tangle of plants had become a funereal monochrome , and there was a dullness where there had previously been a dazzling glimpse of the Mediterranean . |
| 10 | As we journeyed back across the Orne bridges , I looked around at the happy faces in the truck ; up until now , there had n't been much to laugh about . |
| 11 | There had n't been so much of that though the last few years . |
| 12 | There had n't been a proper tea . |
| 13 | It seemed that , psychologically , there had n't been much improvement in Tammuz since then . |
| 14 | But there had n't been a whisper about it . |
| 15 | ‘ If there had n't been , I 'd have come back . |
| 16 | The universe had been enclosed with wood , but there had n't been enough to go round , and through the gaps nothingness waited , strips of bottomless black stuck on the rosy sky . |
| 17 | Or it could be simply that there had n't yet been a serious British accident . |
| 18 | But , hysteria apart , these trips opened my eyes to a new world of music and beauty , of which there had n't , of necessity , been a great deal during the last six years . |
| 19 | Bambi smiled thinly , and Sheridan said in a loud voice that he thought the whole thing was stupid ; everyone knew there had n't been any goddam kidnap attempt and why did n't Zak stop messing around and piss off . |
| 20 | There had n't been a 'plane overhead for him to hear . |
| 21 | There had n't been any time to find a new skivvy , and a skivvy was vital if the evening was to be a success . |
| 22 | But there had n't been a choice . |
| 23 | There had n't been any cracks . |
| 24 | One of those deep troughs of dust could suck his wheels down , and there 'd be nobody passing on this road , not for days , maybe , maybe not even then , and he had n't thought to bring water along or tell anybody where he 'd gone , it had all happened too fast , there had n't been a moment . |
| 25 | Mildred , however , had been given a rather dim-witted tabby because there had n't been quite enough black ones to go round . |
| 26 | There had n't been many teddy boys in Knockglen , in fact no one could ever remember having seen one except on visits to Dublin where there were groups of them hanging round corners . |
| 27 | And there had n't been a serious offer for the property in the last twelve months . |
| 28 | ‘ If there had n't been a waiting list , Anne would n't be here today . ’ |
| 29 | The worst you got down here was strange sudden slithering movements in the shadows where there had n't been anything a minute ago ; crazed Vespan mechanics with tales of fabulous Frasque treasure abandoned in a bay near here , somewhere , just round the next bend ; gangs of Perk extortioners … |
| 30 | One of his men had been foolish enough to point out that the Company Captain was unlikely to want to use the cooker and that there had n't been anybody in that cell in all the eight years he 'd been there . |