Example sentences of "[adj] had [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French had certainly prepared expertly . |
| 2 | This had also featured strongly in the campaign of former Californian Governor Jerry Brown , whilst Clinton advocated a " play or pay " model whereby businesses would either offer health cover to their employees or would pay mandatory contributions into a national health insurance fund to protect those without cover . |
| 3 | This had also happened elsewhere , for instance at Beishida . |
| 4 | Indeed , as a matter of political necessity at home , it had to assume ( and this had also weighed heavily with Roosevelt ) that a return to the " old power politics system " would be abhorrent to the great mass of Americans . |
| 5 | Although the total numbers used in the USA are vastly higher , Rollin ( 1981 : 91 ) gives a figure of around 100 million for 1980 but this had reportedly declined by about 10 per cent by 1988 , the percentage breakdowns are remarkably similar . |
| 6 | This had then opened up what Schweitzer described as the ‘ psychologising ’ approach to Jesus , which set out to explore his understanding of himself , tracing his awareness of God , his key ideas , even the development of his teaching through the career which ran from Galilee to Golgotha . |
| 7 | The woman denied that this had ever happened quite vehemently . |
| 8 | This had all happened before . |
| 9 | Sergeant Henley prided herself on her power to prise out information by a mixture of persuasion and light bullying like the icing on a cake , and although this had never worked particularly well with Roxie in the past , this was no reason not to try it now . |
| 10 | This had never happened before . |
| 11 | Here was a footballer the like of which the Whaddon faithful had never witnessed before . |
| 12 | In forty-four years the British had yet to recover fully from victory in the Second World War , even though the Germans and Japanese had so manifestly recovered from defeat . |
| 13 | In expanding their empire , the British had habitually sought out local agents through whom to impose their authority , and though these arrangements often broke down after the initial period of contact , sometimes they did not . |
| 14 | A few had even become downright hostile . |
| 15 | He had not seen any of them in the papers , so some had probably replied personally . |
| 16 | Some had nowhere to live apart from crowded dormitory rooms , even after getting married . |
| 17 | Hundreds had evidently gone straight to the station in Prague without contacting the embassy . |
| 18 | Reports said a SAM 727 had just touched down at El Dorado international airport when an Air France Boeing 747 came roaring over it and landed ahead on the same runway . |
| 19 | Across the table , the younger of the two men from Six had already torn up his place card and put it in his pocket as a gesture of security . |
| 20 | The constant , troubled eggings-on to be charitable had perhaps paid off too well . |
| 21 | All the expeditions to Antarctica before 1969 had together found only four meteorites . |
| 22 | I 'll tell you one thing , nineteen ninety three had better come round |
| 23 | The majority of these had probably escaped back across the marsh , they thought ; indeed many had never been engaged . |
| 24 | These had now moved away from the bright primaries of the early Sixties and included many rustic shades such as mushroom brown , sage green and sludgy blue ; colours , which were more reminiscent of the old-fashioned vegetable dyes and perfectly complemented the style of the dresses . |
| 25 | These had often operated most effectively in smaller areas within which housing or industrial-renewal projects could best be implemented . |
| 26 | And these had certainly proved more useful than most . |
| 27 | These had always done quite well as buses were not then allowed on Anerley Hill . |
| 28 | What the blustering and bullying of Henry VIII had failed to do in the 1540s , the gentler approach of Henri II had now achieved triumphantly ; the Scots had given the French king what they had refused to the English one , control of their queen and , it seemed , control of their country . |
| 29 | Many had already packed up and fled after their tents flooded or blew away . |
| 30 | However , if Europeans were exasperated with Carter , many had little liking either for the man who beat him in the November presidential elections . |