Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] had [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The noteworthy thing , considering this half.century of official recognition , is the regularity with which the multi.media library concept was hailed as a new idea and canvassed with a sense of surprised discovery , as if no library or librarian had ever considered it before . |
| 2 | Several hours later I had not heard anything of the incident , so it seemed likely that the Officer had not reported the matter , or Lovat had just shrugged it off . |
| 3 | Spokespeople or representatives had constantly to justify their activities and statements to committees , which in turn would have to report back to steering groups and working parties elected by conferences and regional groups . |
| 4 | In an interview with an Israeli newspaper published on Jan. 2 , Weizmann described Shimon Peres , the Labour leader and Vice Prime Minister , as a " son of a bitch " and claimed that Peres had actually briefed him during his telephone conversation with the Palestinian in Tunis . |
| 5 | In remembering that interview , however , Fabia also remembered that Ven had actually thought it necessary to warn Lubor against her asking personal questions about him . |
| 6 | Even Biddy , who knew everything , had never suggested such a thing was going to happen , and certainly Mr Bean nor Nutty had never said anything . |
| 7 | It was the first time that Kirov had ever seen him out of uniform . |
| 8 | Minto was ‘ more excited ’ than Warnie had ever seen her when he returned from Aldershot far week-end leave , happy to leave behind him his fellow-officers , whom he nicknamed the Aldershits . |
| 9 | It turned out that Dana had simply left his old motor bike on the quayside before embarking on the ship . |
| 10 | The six-person jury unanimously found that Lozano had improperly used his gun . |
| 11 | The six-person jury unanimously found that Lozano had improperly used his gun . |
| 12 | She looked disappointed , so Toby had obviously disarmed her with his usual charm , and had probably promised some expenses , too . |
| 13 | It was obvious that Eleanor had now decided there was little point in remaining secretive any longer . |
| 14 | And these questions pursued her , buzzing like mosquitoes , as she walked up Marylebone High Street with her briefcase , as she crossed the Edgware Road , as she joined the conference group for sherry in the Westminster Suite , as she discovered that Edgar had rightly warned her that conversing with Japanese was not easy , as she ate her indifferent luncheon of Maryland chicken , as she listened to Professor Yamamoto speak on Spenser 's reinterpretation of Freud 's interpretation of folie à deux in the classic case of Orphan Eva and her mother , as she delivered her own paper , as she attempted desperately to follow the ensuing discussion , of which she could grasp only one word in ten : all through this crazy jumble of non-language and misunderstanding , of erudition and impenetrable obscurity , of meaningless signs and uninterpretable eye contact , the mosquitoes buzzed and nipped and drew blood . |
| 15 | After all , Changez was needed in the shop even more urgently now that Anwar had so enfeebled himself on the Gandhi-diet in order to get Changez to Britain in the first place . |
| 16 | Although Melody had already said her farewells to Seb , she found time to visit Anna before she left with the others . |
| 17 | She has since discovered that owner Pauline and her colleague Sue are both very knowledgeable and extremely helpful in spite of the fact that Tessa had obviously bought her machine elsewhere . |
| 18 | It was not until 1962 , when the Organisation of American States resolved that Cuba had voluntarily placed itself outside the inter-American system , that Castro — finding a temperamental and ideological disposition backed up by pressing security considerations — switched his energies to the export of revolution on a more substantial level . |
| 19 | As far as the , the cottage er was concerned , the information about that erm the answer was oh well you know I do n't make any money out of it erm you , you asked about whether it , whether it was erm whether it was making money but you di you did n't actually ask , bearing in mind that , that , that Maggie had already said she paid tax , whether she actually de declared it for tax purposes and what , what sort , what sort of figure it showed . |
| 20 | So , for example , when Barth came in a later volume of the Church Dogmatics to discuss the image of God in man , he did so in a fashion which led Brunner to assert that Barth had now changed his ground , and adopted Brunner 's own stance as developed in Nature and Grace . |
| 21 | It was only a faint smile , glimmering , but more than Ruth had ever thought she 'd see from Fand . |
| 22 | But he was soon to find that Tolkien had more to offer him than the chance to learn Old Norse . |
| 23 | ( It is also remarkable how commonly ideas similar to his have kept re-surfacing up to the present day , often without any apparent awareness on the part of their authors that Schleiermacher had already developed them , or that the subsequent movement of theology was to expose serious inadequacies in them . ) |
| 24 | Stretched out where they had fallen , the last three members of the once invincible Hellhounds killer pack stared sightlessly after their executioner — a far more efficient and dangerous killer than Nature had ever equipped them to be at the height of their savage power . |
| 25 | How glad she was that Tom had finally badgered her into going . |
| 26 | Blanche realised that Robert had never given her any other . |
| 27 | He said that officials had now halved their projections of the number of Soviet Jews set to arrive in 1991 , and now expected some 200,000 , or only slightly more than in 1990 ( 185,000 ) . |
| 28 | There was a marble-topped table in the centre of the flagged floor , bearing , like an altar , a symmetrical arrangement of clothes brushes and men 's toiletries that Vic had never seen anyone disturb since he came to Pringle 's . |
| 29 | Afterwards , Michels told Unigram that SCO had still to commit itself to either Unix V.4 or OSF Unix for its future releases . |
| 30 | It is more than likely that Cis had never seen her young brother/son act in any formal sense at this time . |