Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sophia thought this looked rather odd and had offered to lend her a string of cultured pearls , but the beads seemed to go with the piled up hair style and the long pointed-toed shoes that Penelope was wearing . |
| 2 | His face was grotesquely puffed and had taken on the colour of dark purple . |
| 3 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |
| 4 | He had also been extremely suspicious and had made no secret of it . |
| 5 | The filming took so long that had to remake the heap a couple of times and start again . |
| 6 | Supposing the tumour in my lungs was not entirely new but had started five months ago , before I went onto my diet , took my vitamins or began my visualizations ? |
| 7 | They had not seemed wholly convinced but had subsided with mutterings . |
| 8 | In view of my evident misery , both at the onset and towards the end of the disease , the two statements may at first seem irreconcilable : I was desperately unhappy and had known for years that death can put an end to everything , including unhappiness . |
| 9 | Carrie and Nick would have escaped from the house if they could but it was bitterly cold and had begun to snow heavily . |
| 10 | Clare looked incredibly fit and had had a wonderful time . |
| 11 | I had got totally pissed and had to do a gig that night . |
| 12 | Still the rain , all week it had rained , and his coat was barely dried out from the previous evening and his shoes were still wet and had rejected the polish he had attempted over his breakfast . |
| 13 | Their dances were usually fast and had to display their exciting footwork , e.g. Petipa 's Bluebird . |
| 14 | By this stage in the Parliament we were deeply unpopular and had allowed ourselves to be painted as a government forcing through doctrinaire policies . |
| 15 | The public importance of the issue , and the high journalistic standards deployed in putting the programme together , were subsequently emphasised by an independent enquiry chaired by Lord Windlesham , which conclusively refuted the Government 's allegations that the programme had been deliberately biased and had prejudiced the inquest in Gibraltar . |
| 16 | He was still stark naked but had decided to get dressed . |
| 17 | The resulting document , the Bourdillon Report , proved at the time to be one of the most useful that had appeared about the bookstocks of British public libraries , since it contained studies of existing provision and a series of recommendations on acceptable standards for provision in the future . |
| 18 | then introduced our Sports Council Liaison Officer who has always been most helpful and had volunteered to come along and present their point of view . |
| 19 | He had got the direction slightly wrong and had passed the dell before he realised it . |
| 20 | and it refused it , and it should , the woman did n't obviously did n't know what to do , she was as embarrassed as had to get the manager so by this time Brian has packed all his bags up |
| 21 | particularly the length of time that was away I was really sure that had got on to incidentally it 's worth saying that the B B C re they do they use professional readers who make a report on every piece they receive and they file them . |
| 22 | However , this process requires great care to get it right and not all printers are infallible — indeed , one printer I used was infallibly fallible and had to make three sets of cards when the first set were turned along the short axis and the second set were guillotined along the fold . |
| 23 | It was now red and had become quite dull . |
| 24 | Scarlet 's mother had moved in the Bohemian world of Chelsea in the years immediately post-war and had acquired the air of insouciant , amoral aristocracy combined with a certain self-righteousness arising from the consciousness of being both aesthetically and ( at base ) morally correct which had characterized that society at that time . |
| 25 | In the interval he seemed particularly cheerful and had asked for news about the Bishop 's Castle Railway |
| 26 | They borrowed a car and drove to Cornwall , though between the two of them they were virtually penniless and had to make do with beans on brown bread for the entire weekend . |
| 27 | What with hauling carpets in and out , cleaning the wallpaper with a loose dough — a trick Sally-Anne found oddly satisfying , if messy — washing every curtain , sheet , blanket , cushion-cover , piece of crockery , floorboard , door and window-frame , ceiling — you name it , Sally-Ann cleaned it — by Sunday she felt quite stunned and had gone to sleep during the rector 's sermon , only to be prodded awake by Matey , to a smiling Dr Neil 's amusement . |
| 28 | He recovered but at the age of 22 was left almost completely bald and had to wear a wig , a fashion he discarded in the heat of India . |
| 29 | No pupils refused to participate in the study , and as pupils were not warned about the administration of the survey we assumed that those registered pupils who did not complete the survey were either absent or had left the school . |
| 30 | By this time I was beginning to think that Eric was either dead or had chosen to forget me , and I felt very depressed . |