Example sentences of "[adv] had [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She so obviously had n't given up stuffing herself with Salmon 's cream buns . |
| 2 | Once Mrs Long had also sat down , she posed the obvious question . |
| 3 | Perhaps I just had n't noticed before , but now that I did , it seemed that funerals , and allied subjects , were very much the in thing . |
| 4 | ‘ I — I just had n't got round to it , ’ she said weakly . |
| 5 | And I know it 's not , not saying there 's anything wrong with it , just had n't got round to writing it . |
| 6 | But like , I got the mirror down and like , I looked at it and whether it was the light or whether it just had n't come up cos it was only like , a few seconds afterwards |
| 7 | The summer still had n't gone away , although we were almost out of September . |
| 8 | But she was n't planning to go to her parents — I know because I rang them on Tuesday when she still had n't turned up . ’ |
| 9 | Father still had n't come back . |
| 10 | And she still had n't got much in the way of new property to recompense her loss — yet here he was behaving in this lofty , inconsiderate way , as if she did n't count at all . |
| 11 | He was twenty — well this June — and he still had n't walked out with a girlfriend , and yet his mother was moving in very exalted circles , where it should have been possible for him to meet the pick of the debutantes . |
| 12 | Within minutes of disembarking from the boats and starting the search we all found to our disappointment that the good weather still had n't dried out the long grass of the islands , and we were all soon soaking . |
| 13 | the worst meal I think , er , I went with Dorothy , it was the worst meal out , we both said that , that either of us had ever had ever had anywhere |
| 14 | and he probably had n't paid that much anyway so he has to go out the house |
| 15 | probably had n't paid that much , so these peo the ones that lent the money out , in really they er , and they really have suffered just , they probably thought that if we do n't lend them the money somebody else will and get the interest and they 'll grow bigger and much overtake us , you know , to , to take over our business , so er , so the |
| 16 | They left the house by the same route by which they had entered , though had not gone far when her escort stopped to exchange a few words with an odd-job man who was undertaking a minor repair near some outbuildings . |
| 17 | I wondered sometimes if the effects of some sedative given perhaps the night before had not worn off completely by the time I came . |
| 18 | This was despite the fact that Churchill , amazingly for a new and over-rewarded recruit to the Conservative Party who twelve years before had nearly broken up the Asquith Cabinet with his demand for a larger navy , began his Chancellorship by presenting an importunate demand to the Admiralty ministers ( who were Baldwin 's closest friends in the Government — Davidson was the junior minister ) for a slashing of the cruiser replacement programme . |
| 19 | If she really had n't felt up to coming out she would surely have said ? |
| 20 | £ Well , I think I really had better stop there , and then if you want to ask any questions erm we can go into them , but perhaps I could just mention two things that I would like to have said more about , one was , that you probably know , there were three or two major epidemics in Oxford , of what they call plague , but it was probably a form of typhus , in 1643 and 44 , and a good deal of sickness , I think , still in 1645 , and the other was that there was a very serious fire , which almost certainly arose from these kind of living conditions , because Anthony Wood says it was a soldier roasting pig , erm and I think a lot of cooking went on in very unsuitable situations . |
| 21 | It will be recalled that Sutton depôt was built to house 60 cars , but up to now had rarely held more than 20 , so even with the overhaul facilities , there was plenty of space to spare . |
| 22 | The sense expressed would therefore be diagrammable as : This is not the case with have , which always carries the implication that this event is actualized : ( 174 ) * Miriam now had Pengally break down the gate , but he said he really could n't go that far . |
| 23 | Gaily had never thought so . |
| 24 | Her eyes linked them until she went to pull together the curtains she knew very well had never met properly . |
| 25 | They simply had not realised how well they had done out of changes in Europe 's common agricultural policy . |
| 26 | Her anxieties , her tension , her thoughts about racing tomorrow had never seemed so distant . |
| 27 | A few of the mothers talking here had also experienced quite severe postnatal depression and detachment from their babies . |
| 28 | The citizens of Pisa by then had recently taken over its government from the archbishop — they had formed the commune of consuls in the early 1080s which was to be a model for innumerable cities in Tuscany and Lombardy and Umbria to follow in the next two generations , the characteristic Italian commune . |
| 29 | With the country more and more forced into self-sufficiency , land was exhaustively cultivated , and by the closing stages of the war , when supplies from abroad had completely dried up , domestic production had fallen far below the 1941 level . |
| 30 | The new wood that Kalchu had put on the fire earlier had n't caught yet and clouds of smoke were billowing out . |