Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could n't call back that she was asleep or had died . |
| 2 | They were worried about her being alone in the fiat and had wondered whether she was pregnant or had taken drugs . |
| 3 | In 1983–4 , 33 per cent of young workers told interviewers from the GHS that they were unemployed or had experienced unemployment during the previous twelve months . |
| 4 | He had intended to learn French and had brought with him a set of books asserting that you could teach yourself French in two weeks , but he did n't open them . |
| 5 | The Labour Party were leaving no stone unturned and had published ‘ The New Social Order ’ . |
| 6 | His face was grotesquely puffed and had taken on the colour of dark purple . |
| 7 | He had got the direction slightly wrong and had passed the dell before he realised it . |
| 8 | He was in fact eighteen , had never seen a battle , and was very nervous of the notorious Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe who was thirty-eight years old and had lost count of all his battles . |
| 9 | The official story had always been that Greg was simply a close family friend , but a child could have seen through the pretence and she had not been a child for a very long time , perhaps not since that long-ago night when she was four years old and had stood , unseen , outside a bedroom door … |
| 10 | He was sixty-eight years old and had suffered from cancer of the oesophagus for some time . |
| 11 | Since I was twenty years old and had had some success in college debating societies , this possibility did not strike me as remote . |
| 12 | Her parents were old and had forgotten , if ever they had known , what it was like to love someone as she loved Rob . |
| 13 | Spain stood very much where she had done when Philip II came to the throne , except that the Netherlands had broken free and had set up an empire based much more on trade than on overseas settlements . |
| 14 | I decided that it was perhaps because they were n't possessive and had given no other human being the feeling that having been once disgorged he was n't safe and at any moment might find himself gobbled up again and back in the confines of a body not his own . |
| 15 | He 'd become self-conscious and had challenged her . |
| 16 | Still the rain , all week it had rained , and his coat was barely dried out from the previous evening and his shoes were still wet and had rejected the polish he had attempted over his breakfast . |
| 17 | I had always felt embarrassed and had to look at my feet in the presence of anyone playing any musical instrument , and had realised once when watching Syl spitting and squinting at his oboe that this was because it was irresistibly evocative of masturbation . |
| 18 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |
| 19 | When he was seen in the special department , after blood tests for syphilis , taken as a last resort , had turned out strongly positive , he remembered having noticed a sore on his penis some five months earlier but had not bothered with it as it was not painful and had gone away after a couple of weeks . |
| 20 | and it refused it , and it should , the woman did n't obviously did n't know what to do , she was as embarrassed as had to get the manager so by this time Brian has packed all his bags up |
| 21 | ‘ Anyway , for some reason Heather wanted to know all about the last time Clare had been here , which , as it happened , I remembered very well , not just because it turned out to be the last I ever saw of her , but on account of something odd that had occurred . |
| 22 | Suggestion scheme secretary said : ‘ Suggestions are dealt with anonymously by a panel , so they were unaware that had done so well ’ . |
| 23 | All patients were symptomatic and had proven gall stones . |
| 24 | They claim the building was 300 years old and should be restored , but Thamesdown Council decided the building was unsafe and had to go . |
| 25 | It also seemed , from the feathers on the kitchen floor , that one of the pigeons had come down for a warm and had got too close . |
| 26 | Calum Macdonald , the Labour MP for the Western Isles — which lost £24 million as a result of the BCCI affair — said the committee had stated in the clearest and strongest terms that the Bank of England was negligent and had failed in its supervisory duties . |
| 27 | Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa said the Israelis had been intransigent and had done all they could ‘ to make the peace conference and the talks a waste of time . ’ |
| 28 | Clinics have closed down , essential drugs have n't been bought or distributed , health workers have been unpaid and had to revert to other ways of earning a living . |
| 29 | They were armed with bows and arrows , were all male and had shaved heads . |
| 30 | Long before , when he was in perfect health , we had watched a television programme concerned with the high cost of dying and had sent for the accompanying booklet , entitled , appropriately , It 's a R.I.P. Off . |