Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [adv] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brisk and obedient , Lina had already decided what she would call her new mistress . |
| 2 | Tammuz' jaded beliefs were not that novel : Quincx had heard them spill from many a Tech-Green 's lips ; but then Ewan had always thought himself unique . |
| 3 | Anyway , Jeff had now given me something new — something really important to me . |
| 4 | And George Markham had never shirked his duty . |
| 5 | Matey had already told her that most of the tea sold in East End grocers was collected from the leavings of the West End , dried , repacked and sold again . |
| 6 | Mitterrand had earlier lent his name to one of the many ( abortive ( bills intended to give the agency a status in law : now , Marin achieved the task of securing a political consensus sufficiently broad to secure the passage through Parliament of a law ending the provisional status of AFP . |
| 7 | Usually it was late afternoon before I tossed myself into the near-coma from which Gwenellen had just woken me . |
| 8 | Derek Jefferson had certainly whizzed them round the factory , and was already in the final assembly area . |
| 9 | Braun had also asked them to guarantee the peace around the museum , which they agreed to do . |
| 10 | The first part of the remark was tautologous ( show me a peaceful terrorist ) ; and the second was untrue : Gerry Adams had just lost his West Belfast constituency . |
| 11 | Dennis had earlier said he would love to go to the Worksop club . |
| 12 | And these questions pursued her , buzzing like mosquitoes , as she walked up Marylebone High Street with her briefcase , as she crossed the Edgware Road , as she joined the conference group for sherry in the Westminster Suite , as she discovered that Edgar had rightly warned her that conversing with Japanese was not easy , as she ate her indifferent luncheon of Maryland chicken , as she listened to Professor Yamamoto speak on Spenser 's reinterpretation of Freud 's interpretation of folie à deux in the classic case of Orphan Eva and her mother , as she delivered her own paper , as she attempted desperately to follow the ensuing discussion , of which she could grasp only one word in ten : all through this crazy jumble of non-language and misunderstanding , of erudition and impenetrable obscurity , of meaningless signs and uninterpretable eye contact , the mosquitoes buzzed and nipped and drew blood . |
| 13 | In the past MacArthur had frequently reiterated his wish for an early peace treaty but this had not happened recently . |
| 14 | Nelson Mandela had consistently defended his wife against rumours and allegations , accusing the government of seeking to besmirch her name and reputation . |
| 15 | Houphouët-Boigny had previously made it known that , if elected , this would be his last term of office , but gave no indication as to a possible successor . |
| 16 | Geddes had just read Our Towns , and clearly its analysis fitted in with his observations of the evacuees , for he praised it warmly . |
| 17 | The six-person jury unanimously found that Lozano had improperly used his gun . |
| 18 | The six-person jury unanimously found that Lozano had improperly used his gun . |
| 19 | Nevil had just found me . |
| 20 | My goodness , what a commotion it would cause if she announced to all these posh people that James Halden had once seduced her . |
| 21 | Pete Waterman had once promised his prodigy that one day he would transform her into the Madonna . |
| 22 | Minto was ‘ more excited ’ than Warnie had ever seen her when he returned from Aldershot far week-end leave , happy to leave behind him his fellow-officers , whom he nicknamed the Aldershits . |
| 23 | It was obvious that Eleanor had now decided there was little point in remaining secretive any longer . |
| 24 | Letterman had previously told me that flashback is a device which must be used sparingly , yet now he was a plausible advocate for this treatment . |
| 25 | Catriona had never seen anyone like her . |
| 26 | The United States argued that since Nicaragua had never ratified its declaration it had always been a third party to the jurisdictional scheme . |
| 27 | By 1823 Sir Walter Scott had already installed it in Abbotsford , his NeoGothic house ( Fig. 53 ) , and by the mid-century it had become quite common in urban houses of the middle classes . |
| 28 | Nor , Branson had now convinced himself , was an airline that far removed from the principle of expanding into related businesses . |
| 29 | Biddy had never let them down , come without fail all through the bad weather , and now was giving Nails an intensive course on her own horse which — in terms of money — was worth another couple of hundred pounds . |
| 30 | Middlesbrough John Green , whose lightweight brother Andy had earlier won his semi-final , was too strong for Shildon 's Brian Wright in the welterweight final . |