Example sentences of "[adj] had [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And proof that an informant had indeed reached Edward from the town was provided by the fact that the emissaries now demanded that the required hostage should be none other than Seton 's own son , a young man whom he had brought with him to Berwick on his first military venture , unfortunate a start as this had turned out to be . |
| 2 | Already he was beginning to steal glances at the clock , comparing it needlessly with his own watch , missing bits of the film while he made rapid calculations as to whether he might conceivably be able to see Bridget home , and , when this had become out of the question , as to how long they would have to say good night at the hated corner . |
| 3 | And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man . |
| 4 | In 1981 they audited 708 of the Times top 1,000 ; by 1991 this had gone up to 815 . |
| 5 | In the 18 years 1798–1815 inclusive , for each million tons sold there were 0.62 explosions and approximately 11 deaths ; in 1817–1834 inclusive the cost was 0.68 explosions , a 10 per cent increase , but with the loss of only 8.7 lives : for 1839–1844 , this had fallen further to 6.5 lives , But the three periods are not easily comparable ; the new production came not from the old collieries described but from new and ever deeper ones to the south and east made accessible after 1815 by steam-and-gravity operated railways . |
| 6 | This had grown out of his very successful Special Theory of Relativity which he had published in 1905 and which can account for two-thirds of the 43′ residual . |
| 7 | In Moabit there had already been some traffic management in the past , but this had relied largely on the use of one-way streets . |
| 8 | The higher income of married couples and men living alone was the combined result of the continued involvement of men in the labour market after the statutory retirement age , although this had decreased sharply over the previous few years , and of the receipt of occupational pensions . |
| 9 | Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year . |
| 10 | In one case this had happened twice on the same land and was about to happen a third time for bulldozer had arrived to destroy a newly erected building where a woman stood in the way , she was one of the nuns helping in the area ; the defence was successful . |
| 11 | Much of this had come about as a direct result of the introduction of the GCSE , as these comments from the Head of Art at ‘ Pope John Paul ’ reveal : |
| 12 | I explained that this had come out during my long interview with Inspector Drew last night . |
| 13 | Gabbi Callas , 27 , fiancee of victim Mark Fitz , said : ‘ If all this had come out before the court case , it might have made a difference . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ If word of this had got back to Connelly there 'd be gang war , ’ Hitch told him . |
| 15 | Washington , he said , stood by its commitment to overcome the division of Europe , Germany and Berlin , but this had to come about in a gradual process which satisfied German aspirations and met the ‘ legitimate interests ’ of all concerned . |
| 16 | Nearly half of the plants had joint consultative committees ( JCCs ) , 69% had introduced single status conditions of employment , 79% had no individual payment bonuses and almost half had done away with clocking-on . |
| 17 | Mr Blackman hesitated , and by the time he had formed a limited partnership to launch his schismatic fair , the would-be faithful had signed on with CIAE 's crosstown competition , David and Lee Ann Lester 's three-year-old Art Chicago International . |
| 18 | The British had to reckon now with an Indonesian army . |
| 19 | So the British had come out of India with their egos more or less intact . |
| 20 | Danny the youngest had settled down in his job as a lighterman and seemed to be popular with the local girls . |
| 21 | Sir John Fastolf , involved in a long drawn-out lawsuit in Paris between 1432 and 1435 , could remind the court that he had been the first to jump into the sea when Henry V had come ashore in France in 1415 , and that the king had rewarded him with the grant of the first house which he had seen in France . |
| 22 | Fortunately , George V had worked well with his father and knew the nature of the current political trends , but he did not wield the same influence internationally as his esteemed father . |
| 23 | we did , some had gone out on the plates and then I had three boxes left and I was going round giving them out . |
| 24 | Some had gone back to their villages ; some to the pottery ; some to begin the maintenance tasks that would take place , at the yard or by the hearth , all through the winter . |
| 25 | The Sisters went off unconvinced , but a month later some had softened slightly towards their wayward guest . |
| 26 | Some had floundered right across the room before they had expired . |
| 27 | It cost about £14,000 to restock ; compensation was inadequate and hundreds had gone out of business , Mr Oatley said . |
| 28 | Too much had happened today for anything else really to surprise her . |
| 29 | It had been presented to him by the City of Paris and on it were traced the lines of the new streets and boulevards which Napoleon III had worked out in conjunction with Baron Haussmann . |
| 30 | A Merlin III that Ted had preserved during 1985–1987 had penetrated deep into blue clay and had thus been cut-off from the damaging effects of oxygen . |