Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speed had dropped back and Wallace moved upwards in the second half . |
| 2 | Until that moment no single glance had suggested more than shared pleasure in the lake by night , two friends at swim . |
| 3 | Quigley had sat there while the good people from the Mutual Life provident Association had come round and told my mum the news about her death benefit . |
| 4 | Her skirt had ridden up and she clung to his shoulders convulsively as she yielded to the sweet torment of his long fingers stroking over her thighs . |
| 5 | By 1819 , if Shelley is to be taken as a reliable guide , Wordsworth 's stock had gone down and down : ‘ He was at first sublime , pathetic , impressive , profound ; then dull ; then prosy and dull ; and now dull — oh so very dull ! it is an ultra-legitimate dulness ’ ( Dedication to Peter Bell the Third ) . |
| 6 | The houses were scattered around , low-slung , timbered , with a thatched roof and small porch ; it was a village scene similar to many Corbett had seen elsewhere except for the small dark people , their furtive looks and quiet ways . |
| 7 | But Creed had turned away and Jed breathed easier . |
| 8 | Similarly , practices could appeal if they had evidence that the population characteristics had altered substantially since the last census . |
| 9 | Jinkwa had wheeled about and was now coming back over to them . |
| 10 | Somehow I was in the boat , and Neil had cast off and was edging her out from the jetty . |
| 11 | So troubled was he for a girl who , after all , was of age , high-spirited and clever , that after she had gone , and Matey had answered reflectively when he had asked her if she knew where McAllister was going , ‘ I do n't know . |
| 12 | He had not realised quite how many customers were attracted by the Car Hire firms of Oxford , especially American customers ; and checking the lists had taken longer than he 'd imagined . |
| 13 | A game of football had started below and the familiar quarrels of sportsmen were already floating up to me . |
| 14 | The acting commander-in-chief of the KPNLF , Dien Del , said the fighting had continued overnight and had been ‘ more than 70 per cent successful ’ . |
| 15 | Even the sparrows and the robin redbreast had flown away and all that was left was one fat old pigeon sitting in the lawn . |
| 16 | Thus , in 1911 , in Dimes , the jury was directed that the prosecution had to establish that the defendant had acted violently and against the will of the prosecutrix . |
| 17 | But several readers had pointed out that if evil could not create , was only good perverted , then presumably the orcs had been by nature good and might in some way be saved ; Tolkien certainly balked at calling them ‘ irredeemable ’ , see Letters , pp. 195 , 355 . |
| 18 | Erm t just to er well there was a l a certain lack of time on this thing , I mean , Dennis had to come round and tell us to start our tick-list else we were n't gon na . |
| 19 | The sweat that had begun in anticipation of what she might encounter in the street now ran in fear of her mother 's rage ; Nunzia 's eyes had gone hard and wrinkled like black olive pips when Rosa had produced the plover , and she had clucked impatiently with her tongue when Rosa lied and said her grandfather had shot it and presented it to her . |
| 20 | Her voice was shaky , her eyes had become round and dull with astonishment . |
| 21 | So far , Marie had lasted longer than either of them : it was n't that she was better at her job than they were , it was just that she did n't expect so much of people . |
| 22 | Now if that car had pushed on and did n't brake when he did , that driver would either have taken car out or the keep left bollards would n't he ? |
| 23 | The car had burned out and the body had been difficult to identify . |
| 24 | During the time that I was at MainMan , David had become more and more removed from us , but I figured that that was because he was so busy and that was the way it was when you had become a big star . |
| 25 | Its circulation had grown enormously as immigrants flooded into Tollemarche , and it had expanded into the shops which flanked it on either side . |
| 26 | Lydia had once read a women's-magazine-type romance in book-form and her mind had felt then as her stomach felt now — ever so slightly destroyed . |
| 27 | The feeling of fear had subsided somewhat and I remembered looking into the rubble-strewn backyards and thinking how sad it was that they were now in ruin , as last time I was at the station they were occupied . |
| 28 | When he emerged , Dr Shakhar seemed to think that the talk had gone well and then asked for another audience . |
| 29 | None the less the chief engineer 's department had expanded considerably since CEB days ( when they numbered 65 ) : the technical and engineering staff at headquarters grew from 173 in 1948 to 330 by 1952 . |
| 30 | Chris and I delivered the display , which the ITN graphics department had made up as we waited . |