Example sentences of "[adv] had [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who knows , Charles and Di might still be together had they followed the path of love the Nescafe way : see each other only 11 times in five years , never take your clothes off during sex , and make sure your tongue spends more time in a cup of coffee than in your partner 's mouth . |
| 2 | Charles Gorham , the deaf founder-secretary and editor of The Deaf and Dumb Times , within days of the foundation of the BDDA , registered his personal dissent in the issue of August 1890 : The Congress , in deciding that the title should be " The British Deaf and Dumb Association " , would have done better had they omitted the objectionable word " dumb " , which is really unnecessary and has proved very misleading to the public . |
| 3 | The three climbers who originally passed the message to them were eventually traced , and confirmed that not only had they informed the Guardia Civil in person on the 21st , but afterwards had phoned each day to see if Jeremy had been found . |
| 4 | Not only had I gained the technical degree I 'd been chasing , but I 'd finally achieved a position in a business when I could use that expertise to its full potential . |
| 5 | For him to demand repeated empirical evidence at that stage was doubly unnecessary , for not only had he heard the words of Christ , he had listened to the eye-witness accounts of his fellow disciples . |
| 6 | Not only had he earned the Huge Reward but for once , indeed the only time without Tom 's help , he had outwitted his most terrible enemy and he could not resist cocking a very vulgar snook at Cut-throat Jake as he went over to shake the Dragoon officer by the hand . |
| 7 | Not only had he mastered the lines , he had also delivered the speech with greater power than it had ever received , either by him in rehearsal , or by Alex in performance . |
| 8 | Not only had he transformed the political situation among the western Saxons but he had also established himself as the most powerful ruler in southern England . |
| 9 | Even less had they diminished the image of Topaz which was always in his mind 's eye . |
| 10 | Long had he studied the secrets of the Thames . |
| 11 | How long had she seen the face for ? |
| 12 | Scarcely had they left the station concourse than ‘ Rogue Trader Draco ’ was paged to a public comm-screen . |
| 13 | Conversely had we had the profits last year which would have generated taxable profits then we would n't have needed to have done that , so that 's one reason why it was not disclosed on floatations at the time and floatation was not regarded as an asset . |
| 14 | No sooner had we crossed the frontier than ‘ abroad ’ closed in . |
| 15 | No sooner had we caught the first heady whiff of the East and altered the chemistry of our food with it than we made a quantum leap in our cultural and artistic range as well . |
| 16 | No sooner had he freed the platform of the Collector 's superfluous presence than the Doctor sprang into his place and held up his hand for silence . |
| 17 | No sooner had he shut the door than his wife found him out . |
| 18 | No sooner had he received the sorrowful news of his father 's death , than he found himself surrounded by confusion , suspicion and intrigue . |
| 19 | As with so many things , no sooner had he taken the idea to himself than he began to resent it passionately . |
| 20 | It seemed to Joe that his mother was waiting behind the hall door for him , because no sooner had he entered the house than there she was , staring at him over the distance . |
| 21 | He had let out a number of slow deep breaths as if he had got out of a tight corner , but no sooner had he entered the room again than Lizzie said , ‘ Does Maggie know of this ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ But no sooner had he put the phone down than the police had arrived . |
| 23 | Sadly , her thoughts of a good omen continued to prove false , because no sooner had she raised the knocker than the door was wrenched open , and a young woman emerged backwards , still talking to someone inside the house . |
| 24 | Thus , no sooner had she rejected the two $10,000 grants than Ms Radice was called a ‘ decency czar ’ , a ‘ faux-moralist sharpie ’ , and a betrayer of the public trust . |
| 25 | Hardly had I uttered the word — or the phrase signifying it — than I felt within me the need to become what I had been accused of being … . |
| 26 | Only once had I feared the heat of Egypt and that had been in a waking dream . |
| 27 | ‘ If you promise not to tell anyone , ’ Margaret said , when she finally got to see a doctor , ‘ I nearly had it done the old way , you know , with a knitting needle , then I lost my nerve . ’ |
| 28 | Long-time leader Mweenish would almost certainly have held on had he cleared the final obstacle without error . |
| 29 | What right had I to tarnish the reputation of an acknowledged war hero and needlessly distress his family ? |
| 30 | Hit and run — a serious offence , but when had it merited the attention of a Detective Chief Superintendent ? |