Example sentences of "[conj] they had [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trouble is , I do n't know what he 'd do - " He broke off suddenly and turned his head away , whispering , " My father , my father , my father … " in a way so bitter and desperate that she turned to him and held him ; and although they had already stayed far longer than on previous nights , she had a sudden foreboding of events , so that she needed to love him again , now ; and a little while later , without thinking of the danger , she cried out with the joy of him : a single shriek in the night that echoed in the trees below the house and was followed by a strange , almost tangible silence . |
| 2 | Although they had recently lost narrowly to New Zealand , there was no question that West Indies were now the outstanding team in the world , and they were to continue that way throughout the 1980s . |
| 3 | When the olive-skinned Valentino was seen kidnapping a white girl and taking her to his tent where he seduced her , cinema audiences were treated to a franker exposé of naked lust on the screen than they had ever seen before . |
| 4 | Certainly not everybody in the camp found pleasure in books or music or poetry or nature but many people who normally would never have had anything to do with such things were forced by their environment to look into them and found there greater wealth than they had ever known before . |
| 5 | Many of the women who remained in the trade until their senior years eventually became readers , with higher pay and status than they had ever enjoyed before . |
| 6 | There had always been a feeling of pre-destination with Richard and now that they had both suffered so much it seemed stronger than ever . |
| 7 | He kept forgetting they would write it down : he seems to have thought — most of the time — that they had just turned up for a friendly drink . |
| 8 | Only a party bigot would claim that they had somehow come in with the Conservative Government three years earlier . |
| 9 | And by the time that they had all gone out it was broad day . |
| 10 | A study of the 1961 hurricane " Carla " and the 1963 hurricane " Cindy " in the southern United States showed that they had considerably modified both the form of the affected coastline and the distribution of sediments there . |
| 11 | Other teeth moved freely in a way that they had never moved before . |
| 12 | And he commanded and requested the Christians that they should show great honour to the Moors , and respect them , and greet them when they met : and the Moors thanked the Cid greatly for the honour which the Christians did them , saying that they had never seen so good a man , nor one so honourable , nor one who had his people under such obedience . |
| 13 | Political faction had become far more pervasive because the Reformation raised the temperature of Scottish politics , which now took on a focused European dimension , and because once the strong rule of James V had gone , men without the aura of royalty had to struggle with religious and political problems that they had never experienced before . |
| 14 | In fact , those who retired prematurely were less likely than those who waited until pension age to have said that they had ever thought seriously about early retirement ( 24 per cent compared with 44 per cent in the age-group 60 and over ) . |
| 15 | Odd , though , that they had once seemed so odd , so isolated , for the school at which Dotty Doddridge vainly endeavoured to teach French had been non-conformist , faintly progressive , certainly egalitarian in its religious and social complexion : it had offered a liberal , secularized , healthy coeducation , and had on its foundation in the 1860s set out to attract the children of vegetarians , Quakers , freethinkers , pacifists , Unitarians , reformers . |
| 16 | By the third week in December , when Chambers bad honoured the fourth weekly wages draft not covered by funds , they both admitted , with some mutual bravado , that they had now grown quite used to skating without ice . |
| 17 | He 'd known her eight months — met her , in fact , at a dinner party hosted by Vanessa 's elder brother William — and they had only argued once , but it had been a telling exchange . |
| 18 | Bruce Davidson had accompanied McLeish from his last posting to C1 , that division of New Scotland Yard concerned exclusively with murder , and they had now worked together for four years in the CID . |
| 19 | Bernard loved moving , and they had now spent nearly five years at Rhydoldog which was as long as he liked to spend anywhere . |
| 20 | So Martin and his abandoned baby had moved into the Denham household , and they had moreover stayed there . |
| 21 | His eyebrows looked permanently as if they had just shot up . |
| 22 | He looked at her impersonally , solemn-faced , as if they had never met before . |
| 23 | By resorting to a money-lender it became more difficult to conceal their embarrassment — than if they had merely run up bills with retailers . |
| 24 | He did not take his readers back into history so much as bring Thomas Paine , William Hazlitt , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Sir Walter Scott [ qq.v. ] , and others forward , as if they had suddenly walked in from the street . |
| 25 | She had been letting the house to my father and mother , but they had now died also , and the whole property was to be sold : the house , yard , outbuildings , flower garden , kitchen garden , and a small meadow . |
| 26 | Of course Francis had thought about it as something that was inevitable , and he had plans , but they had never seemed very real and he had looked on them as castles in the air . |
| 27 | We used to call him Daddy Wilkins because he was the father of a large family , but they had all grown up , got married and spread about , so he was left on his own — probably not able to cook for himself which is why he went to live at Mrs Raw 's place . |
| 28 | She had emigrated with half her family to England when a baby , but they had all come back the night an auntie 's house in Derry had been seen on TV news , with the sofa flying from an upstairs window and loyalist thugs pouring petrol on the geraniums . |
| 29 | They could already , of course , provide scholarships and other forms of support , but they had hitherto enjoyed neither the right nor the duty to provide secondary schools of their own . |
| 30 | Then there was a dispute between two athletes , Colin Gaynor and Steve Eden , as to who should be in the final , because they had both qualified as fastest losers with exactly the same time . |