Example sentences of "[adv] had [adv] [verb] [adv prt] " 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 | ‘ I — I just had n't got round to it , ’ she said weakly . |
| 4 | And I know it 's not , not saying there 's anything wrong with it , just had n't got round to writing it . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Father still had n't come back . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I wondered sometimes if the effects of some sedative given perhaps the night before had not worn off completely by the time I came . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If she really had n't felt up to coming out she would surely have said ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Irina however had not picked up the seriousness of his last words . |
| 17 | I think somebody had sort of started pricing them and then somebody else had probably took over and they ended up with the wrong price on but I did n't mind ! |