Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diana had gathered together a small staff who were learning the ropes as fast as she was . |
| 2 | To aid his election campaign , Roosevelt had gathered together a body of men and women who became known as his Brain Trust , mostly from the universities . |
| 3 | Howells left his station to score the first after 67 minutes , and by the time Teddy Sheringham had tucked away a second from the penalty spot — earned by the sheer stamina of Durie — Spurs could have had a couple more . |
| 4 | His measures had welded together an invincible voter coalition . |
| 5 | I felt a little guilty at leaving the Websters , as we had developed quite a good relationship . |
| 6 | The design was complicated , with a serpentine pattern of dark blue and white with touches of black , and whoever was knitting it had completed only a few inches of ribbed welt . |
| 7 | Many of the Minpins who had flown away a short while before were now returning on their birds . |
| 8 | You see we had heard quite a bit about him — the locals boggle at the way in which he does n't dodge his taxes . |
| 9 | Thus far , Kirov had received only a vague brief about his current project . |
| 10 | Rico Gopul , a staff nurse in the villa at the time of the alleged incidents , told the tribunal he had been accused of the same offences as Mr Reid but had received only a written warning . |
| 11 | Having spent hours daydreaming about Portugal and Dom João , she had given scarcely a thought to the alternative . |
| 12 | She knew that , without meaning to , she had given away a lot of her life and thought , and wished she had not . |
| 13 | Dadda he had told , though even to him he had given only a vague location , but he had n't said a word to his grandmother and he was sure Peter would n't have told Uncle Leonard and Auntie Midge . |
| 14 | Mr Penna told the inquest : ‘ A fact which obviously must be considered is that the deceased by any standards had consumed quite a lot of alcohol . ’ |
| 15 | In the weeks before Christmas , the agent was starting to sack staff , some of whom had joined only a week before the order was issued . |
| 16 | The driver was from the Colonel 's staff , and he had travelled ahead a full month before so that he knew the city , the back-doubles they might need and the side streets . |
| 17 | But he had travelled only a few miles when he lost his way among the dark country lanes near his home in Diss , Norfolk . |
| 18 | They had travelled only a few yards into the dense timber when the silence of the woods closed in about them , cutting them off from the rest of humanity in a claustrophobic world of towering trunks and patches of thick underbrush . |
| 19 | Reports citing delegates said that Kuwait and Saudi Arabia had been particularly reluctant , ostensibly on grounds of cost , to endorse large numbers of permanently stationed Egyptian and Syrian troops and had favoured instead a commitment to deploy forces rapidly to the area in times of crisis . |
| 20 | His head had fallen forward a little and his face was in shadow . |
| 21 | The survey briefing had included only a verbal specification . |
| 22 | Scarlet turned away uneasily at the mention of upbringing : Brian 's first wife had telephoned only a few weeks before to say that Brian 's son was causing her hair to turn grey and fall out . |
| 23 | And we had expected rather a slump after Christmas that has n't happened really so that er you know we 're just so busy I mean one thing to the next really . |
| 24 | The daughters of Charles the Cheesemonger were still very much around , however , and as the offspring of a man in trade and one who , despite his early death , had enjoyed quite a full working life , they were fairly well-breeched compared to the daughters of their Uncle John . |
| 25 | She and Herbert had enjoyed only a few years of happiness together . |
| 26 | I read the rest of the story ; the gist of it was I had idled away a year on full pay and what was the Government going to do about it ? |
| 27 | Some of them had come quite a way , from Phobos , even , people I knew when I was still hustling for my white card . |
| 28 | Billy had come home a physical wreck and it was only when Danny himself took up boxing seriously that his friend regained some of his self-esteem by helping and instructing him . |
| 29 | I had come home a day early . |
| 30 | The Sierra had parked about a third of the way down the street , so I went on past the junction and ran Armstrong up on to the pavement . |