Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [be] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neil Cochrane 's mouth tightened when for the first time Sally-Anne saw his face plain , and reacted by controlling her own , so that the shock which she had received was only momentarily shown . |
| 2 | The world which He had made was no longer going in the way that He wanted . |
| 3 | Captain Apgood and the prints he had made were n't even going to get a mention-in-despatches . |
| 4 | The wounds Giles had inflicted were only just beginning to heal . |
| 5 | Sometimes , as they encountered new crowds of pole-carrying Annamese peasants jogging ceaselessly between market and rice field , or spilling out of their tiny village temples and pagodas , he felt that what had happened was somehow inextricably bound up with the torrid , exotic country that was so totally unfamiliar to him in all its ways , and other distressing images of the recent past began to flood through his mind ; he saw again the brutal French colon lashing the fallen prisoners between the shafts of the cart in Saigon , remembered the horror he had felt at the sight of what he thought were many massacred coolies on the river wharf on their arrival , and he heard once more the thud of the Citron striking the peasant boy on the way to the hunting camp . |
| 6 | The number could easily have been doubled , and doubled again , in further trips , but what I had discovered was already enough to reveal the full horror of what was happening . |
| 7 | It had been argued for the defendant that the payments had been made voluntarily to close the transaction , but Lord Reading held that payment under the type of pressure he had described was not so made . |