Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead he had relentlessly bombarded her with the same questions . |
| 2 | And there was the idea of her submitting to a search and medical check by prison guards after she had relentlessly promoted herself and her Helmsley Palace Hotel in the last decade as ‘ The Palace Where The Queen Stands Guard . ’ |
| 3 | Bernard , appreciative that Laura in New York would be treated as a queen of design , an extraordinary superwoman who had singlehandedly achieved it all , accordingly decided not to go on this trip . |
| 4 | She had badly wanted him to kiss her , of course — so badly that she knew it simply must not happen … |
| 5 | The news of his impending death had badly ruffled his composure . |
| 6 | True , I had the somewhat grisly T-shirt and track-suit bottoms which had gamely seen me through a two-hour run-through , but they were in a state and could probably have walked unaided to the BBC on their own . |
| 7 | All were trapped in something inhuman , into which they had dumbly delivered themselves . |
| 8 | Apparently , because my employment had officially been terminated by me , I had arguably made myself voluntarily unemployed and was therefore entitled to benefit money only after a certain period . |
| 9 | Mr Clarke , however , had since said nothing had changed . |
| 10 | He had since heard nothing from Mr Rowland . |
| 11 | The other irritant was the discovery by hundreds of English-speaking Quebeckers , who had courageously chosen to send their children to schools where the teaching is in French , that they had thereby deprived their grandchildren of the right to be taught in English if they wished . |
| 12 | Newman , a decision in which the misappropriation theory was adopted by the Second Circuit for the first time , the court held that Newman had stolen information from his employer and had thereby breached his fiduciary duties to his employer and his employer 's clients . |
| 13 | Kirkman Finlay who was represented by an advocate at the district meeting complained that his opponent had been guilty of bribery and corruption and had thereby disqualified himself . |
| 14 | Equally , in the case of John Main at Inverkeithing , he and his two fellow excisemen were threatened with the board 's displeasure in 1752 , when the collector of Bo'ness accepted , without any enquiry into the facts , an allegation that they had been guilty of excessive drinking and had thereby neglected their duties . |
| 15 | She thought she could in the end be legitimized , be more than just the girl who had married the first man who came along in order to get away from home : daughter of a mother who 'd shacked up with her own mother 's boyfriend at that own mother 's unconscious behest — and had thereby had her life negated forever . |
| 16 | The President accepted the law , but under protest , delighted that the Assembly had thereby provided him with a weapon which could be turned against them when the need arose . |
| 17 | Peter Burridge had captained Millwall to a 4th Division promotion in 1962 and had thereby brought himself very much to the attention of Palace 's astute managerial team of Arthur Rowe and Dick Graham , both as an inspirational skipper and as a regular scorer of important goals . |
| 18 | So he had thankfully devoured his second breakfast , simply pleased that his father was being so attentive to him and not connecting this in any way with his own outburst of the night before . |
| 19 | I could see , again , how striking she must once have been , when her primly drawn-back grey hair had presumably matched her eyes , ‘ with all that 's fair of black and bright ’ . |
| 20 | Many of his friends had laughingly warned him that he now had ‘ double trouble ’ . |
| 21 | But 15 weeks ago , a 17 year old trainee monk walked into Brixton Police Station and claimed Bishop Peter had indecently assaulted him . |
| 22 | He was recognised by a youth who identified Dennis , 31 , as the man who had indecently assaulted his sister , it was alleged . |
| 23 | Now that Amy 's predicament had paradoxically stimulated her own instincts — be they maternal or merely sexual — would she be able to re-awaken James 's interest ? |
| 24 | She had sarcastically asked him if he 'd tracked Ryan down in order to make him pay it back , and he 'd said yes . |
| 25 | I remembered that I had promised to see her about some poems she had written and had nervously asked me to read . |
| 26 | We were adjusting the seasoning in a salmon terrine , and had nervously added what we thought to be the appropriate amount . |
| 27 | She was going to swim in the lake , alone , because both Nick and her father had expressly forbidden it . |
| 28 | But there were still a great many bodies to come in , the Army Medical Corps man had grimly told her . |
| 29 | A name for the monk had instinctively formed itself in her mind . |
| 30 | Hitherto , the Greeks had instinctively interpreted their experience through their myths and so given it " the stamp of the eternal " . |