Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [conj] [pron] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the day of the Station sports I tried harder than I had ever tried in any of my events , and the results were exactly as predicted by old Doc Whittingham " not in the first three , could make fourth if he really tries hard enough " ( which could be the story of my life ) . |
| 2 | If they did consent , and accepted the money — it was good pay for this area — they wandered off before he had half finished , not wanting to be classed as figures of fun like him . |
| 3 | D maintained throughout that he had not intended to kill , but there was evidence from which the jury could infer — and did infer — that he intended to cause grievous bodily harm . |
| 4 | But in the short run , as John Donne observed , men lived and believed just as they had before . |
| 5 | Oh you had chips then you came home and you had bloody |
| 6 | We learnt later that they had also advised her neighbours to take out a summons against her for noise nuisance . |
| 7 | The day I came back and I had n't seen . |
| 8 | Some of us , including yourself , Creggan , came here before they had ever learnt to hunt , or even to fly . |
| 9 | The IRA admitted yesterday that it had mistakenly killed secretary Clare Mallender instead of their intended victim , Alan Dysart , the junior Defence minister , by planting a bomb aboard Mr Dysart 's yacht … . |
| 10 | Henry , taken aback , replied weakly that he had not had carnal relations with Anne 's mother . |
| 11 | Joseph looked up with a start and nodded vigorously although he had n't heard a word his father had said . |
| 12 | It turned out that they had instead invested in an airline which never took off , a college that had no students , and a luxury yacht . |
| 13 | We would have only McGurk 's word for what happened subsequently if I had not positioned my ear by the keyhole of his office . |
| 14 | Instead he glanced at her delicate china tea-cup and saucer and marvelled afresh that he had never , in all his life , actually seen her eat . |
| 15 | That week Hannah and I worked harder than we had ever worked in our lives before , but at last all was ready . |
| 16 | Between March and June 1984 , he worked harder than he had ever worked in his life . |
| 17 | HOWARD Davies , 41 , director-general designate of the CBI , confessed yesterday that he had once been a member of the Labour party , but regretted it as a ‘ bizarre incident ’ . |
| 18 | I rang up cos they had n't rang me back er , oh ! |
| 19 | Mme Fournier was still in the car , she called out that she had only come to deliver a message . |
| 20 | A total of 40.7% of respondents chose their last holiday on the basis that they had done the same before and enjoyed it ; 19.7% went somewhere where they had always wanted to go ; and 17.9% went on a word-of-mouth recommendation . |
| 21 | He was not clear about it , had no notion of his objective or destination ; he knew only that he had once felt filled with high sense of purpose , that aimlessness had not then been his condition , but a starry conviction . |
| 22 | For a while my self-loathing and judgement of self went deeper than they had ever been in my life . |
| 23 | And then that one fell through because they had n't done the repairs on , so they gen us this flat . |
| 24 | Sarah and Terry had no alternative but she and John could have had months of courtship before he went away if it had not been for his stubbornness . |
| 25 | Aunt Lou 's house looked exactly as it had always done . |
| 26 | Twice he was called to the telephone just before the curtain went up and he had long intense conversations with his hand over the mouthpiece . |
| 27 | He knew also that he had n't the right to refuse . |
| 28 | After 1983 , the ‘ frontiers of the state ’ were , in this respect at least , rolled back as they had not been since 1945 . |
| 29 | Yes indeed , she knew now if she had ever gone to the Ragged School that 's what would have happened . |
| 30 | She could n't remember whether the stories were true or not , but she thought dimly that they had both hoped they were . |