Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the land was largely champaign , some demesnes had never lain in common field , or had long ceased to do so . |
| 2 | She smiled kindly , but her eyes had already gone beyond me , to Richard and Adam waiting under the eucalyptus trees , by the swimming pool . |
| 3 | Ignoring her , Drew filled up Perdita 's glass , then , seeing Daisy 's eyes had suddenly filled with tears , asked her if she 'd like another vodka and orange . |
| 4 | His eyes had suddenly fixed on her keenly , as if he were finding her reaction very interesting . |
| 5 | The close racial and cultural connections between the inhabitants of Bougainville and those of the Solomons , together with the geographical proximity of the territories , meant that BRA units had frequently operated from within Solomon Islands ' territory and had often received unofficial military and political assistance . |
| 6 | There was a real danger that industrial unrest over this ‘ comb-out ’ would precipitate the event that revolutionary pacifists had long dreamt about — a national anti-war strike in the munitions factories . |
| 7 | Dimas had reportedly clashed with the Prime Minister 's wife , Marika Mitsotakis , who had publicly reprimanded him for his behaviour towards Greek industrialists accompanying the official party . |
| 8 | Ms Nadia Comaneci was still performing on the long bar for Romania , but her gymnastic trainers had already defected to the US . |
| 9 | If the parties had not agreed on the naming of the appointing authority , or if the authority which |
| 10 | If the parties had not agreed on nominating such authority , or if the nominated authority declines to appoint an arbitrator or is unable to nominate one within sixty days of its receipt of either party 's request to that effect , both parties may ask the Secretary-General of the Permanent Arbitration Court to nominate an appointing authority . |
| 11 | First , any small party could link its lists , for the purposes of calculation of the 5 per cent rule , to the lists of a larger party , provided those two parties had not competed against each other in any Land ( the " piggyback " procedure ) . |
| 12 | Four parties had previously collaborated with the SED within the National Front : ( i ) the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) which merged with the West German CDU on Oct. 1 [ see p. 37761 ] ; ( ii ) the Democratic Farmers ' Party of Germany ( DBD ) , whose chair , Günther Maleuda , resigned on June 25 and was temporarily replaced by Ulrich Junghanns pending a merger with the CDU ; ( iii ) the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany ( LDPD ) , which renamed itself the Liberal Democratic Party and joined the new League of Free Democrats in February 1990 and merged with the West German FDP in August [ see p. 37661 ] ; and ( iv ) the National Democratic Party of Germany ( NDPD ) which joined the League of Free Democrats in March [ see pp. 37260 ; 37302 ] . |
| 13 | True , she was getting a belly on her now , her neck had started to sag , but her attractions had always gone beyond the merely physical . |
| 14 | By the time the Earthtrust team arrived , two nursing calves had already died of starvation after being separated from their mothers . |
| 15 | The first is that the absence of a systematic theology of redemption was simply due to the fact that in the early church no great disputes had yet arisen about it . |
| 16 | Many uses of the software are as yet , undiscovered , because although a software package is designed for one purpose , it can be adapted to meet a particular need within a school which the software designers had not thought about . |
| 17 | But suppose that nearly all the entries had just happened to be nasty . |
| 18 | Losses had also accrued from discounts and subsidies to private and public banks , and from exchange rate speculation . |
| 19 | Able to dissemble , because those lads had not expected to be killed . |
| 20 | Therefore the process of the naturalisation of economic relationships had already begun before the transition period was embarked upon . |
| 21 | Since several gentlemen had already subscribed towards furthering Vial 's proposals , Penn , Stone and Gretton were asked to discuss with Vial the best way of amalgamating the two plans . |
| 22 | Even now his words had n't sunk in completely . |
| 23 | She sat in an attitude of dumb submission , weary and spent , as if careless of the future her words had painfully shaped for her . |
| 24 | It is as if the words had suddenly come to life inside my head . |
| 25 | In the upstairs passage she opened the long case clock , knowing very well it was broken , that the weights had not descended for years and the hands remained at twenty to one . |
| 26 | politically , too , despite tensions over Berlin and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 , the furore over the U2 incident when an American reconnaissance plane was shot down over the Soviet Union , and the shock of the Soviet lead in space exploration and technology , tensions between the two superpowers had not returned to the glacial levels of a decade earlier . |
| 27 | ( Rich 1986 , p. 189 ) The rapid growth of job opportunities had considerably diminished by 1960 , but immigration was still increasing . |
| 28 | But as two months had already elapsed since the end of the previous contracts , this would mean that for some weeks the players would be getting more than the permitted £4 a week maximum . |
| 29 | By the time of the completion of the audit , over six months had already elapsed since the end of the year covered by these accounts . |
| 30 | There were a number of walkers now , all taking their time and drinking in the view , but the chap at our heels had now resorted to breaking away from his party to try and close the gap so obviously gnawing at his soul . |