Example sentences of "[coord] had [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One affected to be lame and had probably become so by constant practice . |
| 2 | Faced with this scenario , the plaintiff gave evidence that she was too frightened to sleep at the premises and had not done so since her initial eviction . |
| 3 | Until then , the Falklands had been the concern of the Overseas and Defence Committee and had not featured strongly in discussions in full Cabinet . |
| 4 | I assured him that I did not have the slightest idea where the Derby Cup was and had not made away with it . |
| 5 | running from care : over half the 179 youngsters who had run from care were persistent absconders and had already run away at least five times before going to the safe house . |
| 6 | He added : ‘ I have my own little semi and had already saved enough for my retirement . |
| 7 | He knew little more about her now than when they had first encountered each other in the abbey ruins on a blustery August evening less than six weeks earlier , had for a minute stood and gazed and had then moved silently towards each other in a wordless , amazed recognition . |
| 8 | Thus in a case in 1969 , where the 10-year-old child born in England of Spanish parents had been very unhappy during the seventeen months he had spent with them in Spain , and had then lived happily for several years with foster parents and their six children in England , the court refused to make an order that care and control should be granted to the parents , one of whom was in poor health . |
| 9 | She remembered , following the man 's visit , that she had sat dumb with rage , and had then rushed upstairs to his room , and every article belonging to him , even to his razor strop , she had brought down and thrown into the yard for the Saturday morning onslaught . |
| 10 | Mary had been looked after by a nanny until the age of seven and had then stayed intermittently with elderly relatives . |
| 11 | She and had obviously gone away for the weekend . |
| 12 | The young woman had picked up her handbag , but had n't moved apart from that . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've always been really good friends but had n't worked together for a long time . |