Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would Sue ( she hardly knew her , after all , had only met her a few minutes ago ) really let her share the little bubble of love that sealed her and Pete up together and away from the rest of the world ? |
| 2 | Jacqui had only given him the Christian name . |
| 3 | He had only kissed her a few times before , yet his taste was as familiar as the beat of his heart beneath her hand as she clutched his shirt . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I think you had better tell me the whole story . |
| 5 | You had better give me a few days . |
| 6 | We , in return , had better give you a few tips on how to behave in a Grenadier battalion or you 'll come badly unstuck . ’ |
| 7 | The most prominent families had no objection to service — it had long offered them the surest route to power , wealth , and prestige . |
| 8 | The argument was both flattering and convenient — so convenient that the middle classes were inclined to take it over from the aristocrats ( who had long fancied themselves a superior race ) for internal as well as international purposes : the poor were poor because they were biologically inferior and conversely , if citizens belonged to ‘ lower races ’ , it was no wonder that they stayed poor and backward . |
| 9 | Pertwee had already employed it the previous morning effectively to terminate interrogation . |
| 10 | He looked up now as she entered — Freddie had already given her a spare key — and said , pleasantly enough , ‘ Hello , Liza . |
| 11 | Other executives had already asked themselves the same question . |
| 12 | Certainly such people existed , but the man who allowed his mind and soul to be ruled by their existence had already handed them the better part of the argument . |
| 13 | Brusilov , who had directed Russia 's southern thrust during the Battle of Lemberg , had already proved himself a redoubtable commander of troops in mass . |
| 14 | He also played cricket , and had already earned himself a bad reputation by smashing two windows in the village . |
| 15 | He had not provided water to wash the feet and had not given him the traditional greeting of a kiss ( Luke 7:44–45 ) . |
| 16 | So when asked why I had not told her the whole story , I replied , ‘ Because you never asked me . ’ |
| 17 | she had guessed Taczek had not told her the whole truth of his relationship with Mills but now had confirmation . |
| 18 | The bruiser had just given her a growling look . |
| 19 | She had just pressed it a second time when she heard a faint voice above the High Street traffic . |
| 20 | He asked me what I was going to wear and said his mam had just bought him a new duffle coat and did I like it , ’ she says . |
| 21 | He looked across at me with watery , beseeching eyes as if he had just told me the entire , intolerable story of his life . |
| 22 | Charles Howard had just delivered me a colossal snub . |
| 23 | No one had ever called me a little ‘ blackie ’ in Kingston , because we were all the same . |
| 24 | She had never held a baby before that was not a fat , well-dressed , sweet-smelling thing , but not one of them had ever given her the strange sense of fulfilment which the pitiful scrap of humanity in her arms , wrapped in the square which she had earlier scissored from her petticoat , did . |
| 25 | He cut in on a man who was starting to chat her up — someone who had once given him a bad review . |
| 26 | He examined himself from head to foot , assessing without vanity the beauty that had once given him an honest pleasure , and he marked without fear the changes that moved in upon him now daily . |
| 27 | Mike had once called her a natural non-drinker , one who enjoyed neither the taste nor the effect . |
| 28 | Someone had once called it the biggest open mental institution in the world , one of the twin armpits of the British Isles , presumably with Glasgow as the other , Glasgow before the tartan yuppies got to it . |
| 29 | In fact , she had probably done herself a great favour as , had she continued to suppress the memory , she might have caused herself great emotional problems in the future . |
| 30 | He had also realised what the French wanted from him : the truth about the Prince of Wales ' former mistress , now immured at Godstowe . |