Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pron] had [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question for Iavolenus therefore is whether the period of sixteen years was supposed to be for the benefit of the trustee ( so that he could enjoy the income from the estate in the meantime ) or of the estate itself ( so that it would fall into the hands of the testator 's son only once he had reached the age of responsibility ) . |
| 2 | Even more so than he had done the previous time , I said did n't you hear this about this at the station meeting and he said it had n't been brought up . |
| 3 | I do n't think it could have worked out better if we had written the ending ourselves . |
| 4 | Would she have enjoyed him so much if she had thought the whole thing permanent ? she asked herself sternly now , sitting up in bed and shaking off the poppy and mandragora effect that thinking about that summer had on her . |
| 5 | And I had to get a box and many a time I 've fallen on my back from that so Cos somebody had moved the boxes I think . |
| 6 | No AE was permitted to sit down until he had given the manager a form for a bike ( so a courier could collect the client 's cheque ) , or for a TT ( telegraphic transfer from the -client 's bank to DPR 's ) , or for Red Star ( British Rail delivery : this was a comparatively slow method of payment . |
| 7 | The Bogsiders felt that they had won — not only because they had kept the RUC out of their area but because they had forced the British Army to intervene . |
| 8 | He had taken an instant dislike to both Bodie and Doyle , not only because they had bungled the surveillance job on the van containing his potential assassins , but because they dressed casually , more suited to a Sunday afternoon jog than the serious business of the Secret Service . |
| 9 | He said it only because he had forgotten the name she had told him , but the delicious little gurgle of laughter she gave coincided so precisely with another crackle of thunder that it seemed suddenly apt . |
| 10 | The Prince galloped past the deserted Gemioncourt farm , through a bivouacked Dutch brigade , and did not rein in till he had passed the forward Dutch picquets and could see clear down the paved highway into the village of Frasnes . |
| 11 | She said this last doubtfully because she had seen the School as recently as Jarvis had and could not imagine any ‘ civilized people ’ renting it . |
| 12 | Radio Lumière was forcibly closed down after it had reported the massacre of 40 peasants by the army in the village of Carrefour , south west of Port-au-Prince . |
| 13 | Long before they had passed the watershed and were looking over into the jaws of the mountains at the head of Loch Morar , young Angus felt he had strayed into a foreign country . |
| 14 | The new book was to be handed to me by the minister , the Revd Dr Adam Burnet , only after we had signed the register — no self-respecting hotel would have accepted us with different names . |
| 15 | Although this is a legal thing to do in Texas , an uproar over the shameless display of influence-peddling prompted most of the recipients to return the money ( mostly only after they had cashed the cheques ) . |
| 16 | If these trajectories were viewed only after they had reached the attractor , they would illustrate the attractors : the sink as a point in phase space , and the limit cycle attractor as a single closed loop in phase space . |
| 17 | It was only after they had offloaded the stock that the dealers would find out their teamleader had bought up large quantities of it himself . |
| 18 | I did as she said but they were two sizes too big for me ; they fitted better after she had packed the toes with scraps of wool . |
| 19 | I heard of people with only one kidney and enquired eagerly whether they had lost the other through cancer . |
| 20 | Not long after we had reached the Old parsonage and climbed the stairs to Michael 's rooms , Father D'Arcy arrived . |
| 21 | This concept did not become clear in Darwin 's mind until long after he had left the Galapagos . |
| 22 | He steered his way round these words much as he had negotiated the deck . |
| 23 | She enjoyed its lack of significance , much as she had enjoyed the bleak and dirty corridors of Battersby Grammar School when she was eleven years old . |
| 24 | The waiter would distract her , especially as she had ordered the meal and was obviously paying , and anyway she almost certainly had n't heard the waiter approaching . |
| 25 | It had fallen down when she had pushed the door open . |
| 26 | So when he had seen the sign ahead of him in the street , he 'd walked right in and sat down and demanded to be attended to . |
| 27 | It took some further persuasion to elicit exactly where he had spent the hours in Newcastle . |
| 28 | Even so , Robbie breathed more easily once she had put the length of the narrow boat between them . |
| 29 | If they were to find dry kindling to light a fire to cook their heron Marian knew they would have to stop soon , but not until they had found the stream again and crossed it . |
| 30 | Wanda stole a half-bottle of Latvian double kümmel from her father 's extensive cellar and we took it to a little bridge on the outskirts of the village where we sat and talked , being careful to hide the bottle when anyone passed by but sipping away until we had finished the lot . |