Example sentences of "had [verb] [adj] [verb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caro had spent the preceding day cleaning and tidying , but her mother had come determined to disapprove and did so easily . |
| 2 | An amazing 98 of them stated they had lost inches from areas they had considered difficult to slim or had found impossible to reduce previously . |
| 3 | It also marked the breaking of a link with the past through the death of Miss Helen Stocks who had done much to promote and sustain the work of the District and the WEA in its early years in Northamptonshire . |
| 4 | SARFU had done little to try and rectify the damage created at Ellis Park so French and Fordham took the initiative prior to the special ANC meeting . |
| 5 | One of the oddities of the situation since her ‘ descent ’ was that most of her clothes had remained in the cupboards upstairs , she had felt unable to go and fetch them , and evidently the other two had felt too embarrassed to carry them down , or perhaps had simply not noticed the problem . |
| 6 | Consumer-orientated , it invited listeners to write in about anything they had found difficult to buy or do and were wanting to know why . |