Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this time of the year , if Napoleon had not returned , Sharpe should have been thinning the apple crop , stripping away basketloads of young fruit to give the remaining crop a better chance of ripening in the autumn , but instead he was riding a dusty road in Belgium and searching for an enemy . |
| 2 | The French army , which the Duke still thought was massing south of the border , was probably the finest instrument that Napoleon had ever commanded . |
| 3 | V. P. Singh had also written a letter to Lal acknowledging his services to the government and party and suggesting on the issue of Chauthala 's future that the " best course " would be to discuss the matter within Janata Dal . |
| 4 | At Cedars Mrs Singh had instantly made friends with a young Asian woman ( wearing trousers and a shirt ) with a little girl who was evidently a year older than Balbinder . |
| 5 | At his own suggestion , Reg said Singh had personally removed that clause from my contract with his nail clippers . |
| 6 | Brisk and obedient , Lina had already decided what she would call her new mistress . |
| 7 | Butlin had previously provided large-scale seaside amusements throughout the thirties . |
| 8 | Judi had always tried to rub his nose in parts of his life he just wanted to let lie there and be profitable . |
| 9 | Judi had always tended to know what she was thinking , but now she knew her sister really could read her mind . |
| 10 | Perhaps , thought Leonora , turning out the light , she would never have learned the truth if Clem had n't written . |
| 11 | During his detention there had been several protest demonstrations attracting crowds of up to 12,000 people , and Khmara had twice staged hunger strikes . |
| 12 | If Nellie had n't gone looking for the children … |
| 13 | Spencer had always appeared to conform , he wore neat clothes and acted the gentleman . |
| 14 | Tammuz' jaded beliefs were not that novel : Quincx had heard them spill from many a Tech-Green 's lips ; but then Ewan had always thought himself unique . |
| 15 | Despite confinement to a wheelchair , Rex Cunningham had evidently prospered and was now the proprietor of a country house hotel-cum-restaurant in Surrey . |
| 16 | Stein had then navigated the dinghy 60 miles across the north sea to Felixtowe , while Woolf made his way back to Britain by ferry . |
| 17 | If Montini had immediately succeeded Pius XII , it is unlikely that he would have called a Council . |
| 18 | Ronni nodded , glad to discover that Jeff had n't sold out . |
| 19 | Anyway , Jeff had now given me something new — something really important to me . |
| 20 | Gharr had already tried to get me out of the way — probably thinking that Mala would collect it and her too . |
| 21 | By then , however , Lewis and Hick had almost doubled England 's total to complete the recovery following a disastrous morning session . |
| 22 | Corbett had rarely seen such beauty . |
| 23 | Corbett had never seen such evil in someone so small : black hair slicked back against the head like the ears of a wet rat ; tiny , soulless eyes and a face as twisted and as sour as a rotten apple . |
| 24 | Corbett had always liked Prince Edward ; he had a roguish air , coupled with an almost childlike innocence . |
| 25 | His sparse blond hair was dark with sweat , and his surprised blue eyes and hangdog look made him the most unlikely royal messenger Corbett had ever seen . |
| 26 | It was the only chamber Corbett had ever seen where there were no torches fixed to the wall . |
| 27 | Both Ketura and Sydel had strongly contested this . |
| 28 | Amabel had never exchanged a word with an actress in her life and had never even set eyes before on a divorced woman . |
| 29 | The cave-dwellers of the Dordogne obtained shells from the Mediterranean and those of Mentone had apparently secured some of theirs from as far afield as the Indian Ocean . |
| 30 | And George Markham had never shirked his duty . |