Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [adv] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The compliment had foolishly pleased her . |
| 2 | His glance had never left her as she 'd tapped towards him across the mirror-like floor , dark eyes sweeping her from head to toe to take in her black high-heeled shoes , black stockings and the stark simplicity of the black wool dress skimming her knees , with a sardonic half-smile . |
| 3 | What had changed , he said , was that the association had finally accepted his assurance that patients would get all the drugs they needed under the new system . |
| 4 | Saying er , I was telling it the other day , she said you could spend all that money on and she said , we went to see this horse , it was years ago before they got their own , she said the horse had just had its foal and it was like he 'd spent a thousand pound on the , the actual stallion yeah and it come out |
| 5 | The tangled hedgerows that grew on either side had almost strangled it into being permanently closed . |
| 6 | Her mummy had once shown her photographs of herself as a Brownie many years ago , and Angela had laughed at the funny straw hat and long frock she had worn . |
| 7 | The administration had nevertheless shifted its stance on the issue of the extension of benefits , recognizing that opinion polls were showing an adverse public response to Bush 's economic stewardship . |
| 8 | Norse raids down the west coast had already made it necessary to move sacred relics from St Columba 's isle of Iona to relative safety at Dunkeld in Perthshire , which became the ecclesiastical centre of the Scottish realm , though kings continued to be buried on Iona , as did several Viking chieftains . |
| 9 | He parted some ferns so we could look back across the Paddock to the changing-rooms where the next toy soldier had just launched himself towards the Orchard . |
| 10 | Mrs Fricker , despite her family 's opposition to the match , condescended to be a witness , as did Coleridge 's new friend Josiah Wade , and the only ‘ tinge of melancholy to the solemn Joy ’ was provided by the thought that this was Chatterton 's church , where , in a room above the north porch , the boy poet had supposedly found his poetic forgeries . |
| 11 | In response to this vote , Collor had reportedly endorsed the release of a public statement by the military ministers in the Cabinet , signed by 80 generals , criticizing the Congress decision and emphasising that members of the Congress and judiciary had recently awarded themselves a pay increase of 37 per cent . |
| 12 | Shadows of it still remained at his trial , two years later ; although his lawyer had evidently advised him to tone down the certitude of righteousness , it would slip out . |
| 13 | In relation to the concept of a new settlement the Department very firmly has an open mind at a time , we 've heard many statements drawing on the various P P G s , and from some of them you might have been excused for thinking that the Department had indeed turned it turned its back on the idea of a n new settlements , knowing that sort of situation we felt it appropriate before the start of this examination to sound out the residents of two Marscham Street |
| 14 | Their priest had already shriven her clean . |
| 15 | He was not the clear favourite for the Oval Office , for there were other men whose achievements were more palpable than George Crowninshield 's , but he looked good , sounded better and no journalist had ever discovered him with his fingers in the till or his legs in the wrong bed . |
| 16 | An aide had apparently taken him aside and told him to do something fast about his image . |
| 17 | Frank , 49 , who had requested the inquiry himself [ see p. 36843 ] , was a generally liked and respected member of the House , whose openness had originally won him much sympathy , although a detailed interview in Newsweek caused some offence . |
| 18 | The spots of colour in his cheeks were much brighter than before , and he had a napkin crumpled in his hand ; all that coughing had clearly started his nose bleeding . |
| 19 | Surely ‘ Jaz ’ could better that ; after all his first attempt had nearly got him that far . |
| 20 | The exotic folklore-ism towards which Colgrass 's piece had eventually groped its way was here unleashed in all its succulence and schmaltz . |
| 21 | One moment there was glass , and the next there were bits of glass , drifting out like a jigsaw puzzle where every piece had suddenly decided it wanted some personal space . |
| 22 | Police spokesman Graeme Jarvis commented she was very , very lucky and added that woollen clothing and wet-weather gear had probably saved her life . |
| 23 | The underground had indeed developed its own theatre , music , and politics . |
| 24 | The Royal Institution had just moved its laboratories up from the basement where they were no longer valuable in ‘ our struggle for existence ’ , as William Spottiswoode put it in January 1873 . |
| 25 | Within a year Labour had drastically overhauled its structure , adopted its constitutional commitment to socialism ( Clause IV ) , and nailed its flag to the pursuit of War Aims acceptable to the leading ILP and UDC pacifists . |
| 26 | Nurse Willow had already warned her to put it in the crib . ’ |
| 27 | This blackness had always affected him . |
| 28 | Commenting on the report , asset manager Keith Gordon said that while this was a major breakthrough in the production cost base , others in the industry had also improved their performance . |
| 29 | In court Jackson 's defence suggested that The Northern Echo had wrongly printed his advertisements . |
| 30 | It seemed to he enjoying the water that somehow or other had seeped through , and I often wonder what would have happened to me if that black scorpion had indeed swung its deadly tail backwards and on to me . |