Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Myeloski , still unsteady on his feet from the effects of the flight , had weakly harangued a local taxi-driver into driving them to the police station . |
| 2 | Instead he had relentlessly bombarded her with the same questions . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | They had consolidated their position since the fifteenth century and had latterly built up an impregnable position in the social infrastructure of the region . |
| 5 | Before his reorganisation began , " Kitty " Laidlaw , who had been Allan Hayhurst 's right-hand support for twenty-nine years and had latterly served the BDA in the capacity of administrative Secretary in the office at Carlisle , decided to retire . |
| 6 | It had been successful up to the 1960s , but had latterly declined to being used as a bingo hall . |
| 7 | The latter also diverged from the Prime Minister , with whom he had latterly differed over Westland , Libya , and other issues . |
| 8 | Founded in 1890 , the ARF had ruled Armenia from 1918 to 1920 , but had latterly comprised only some 40,000 members , mainly of the countries of the Armenian diaspora . |
| 9 | Harry returned to his room shortly before midnight , feeling less drunk than he had latterly behaved . |
| 10 | With flaming face and wilting manhood , Lorimer had furiously thrown money at Cleo where she lay upon the bed , her skirts up round her waist . |
| 11 | She remembered how Adam , seven years old and already stronger-willed than anyone could cope with , had furiously affirmed that Jake would come back . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I felt as if I had singlehandedly wrecked San Francisco . |
| 14 | In spite of his continued haughtiness in speaking to the gipsy , Noah 's authoritative manner had badly shaken the magistrate 's confidence . |
| 15 | Labour MPs said Fergie 's romp had badly damaged the monarchy and boosted demands for a review of the £10 million paid annually to the family by taxpayers . |
| 16 | At one point , it seemed the Middlesbrough game might not go ahead because fire had badly damaged a stand and shotgun cartridges were found buried in the pitch . |
| 17 | He had badly wanted to sign off with a first victory in Adelaide and a record 10th in a single season . |
| 18 | He found he was angry with himself for leaving his seat ; he had badly wanted to hear what his father was about to say , but the all-too-familiar sound of him praising his brother had produced its usual feeling of agitation . |
| 19 | She had badly wanted him to kiss her , of course — so badly that she knew it simply must not happen … |
| 20 | The Corporation of London said that Friday 's blast , which killed three people and injured 91 , had badly affected 100 buildings , leaving 10 with major structural damage . |
| 21 | Women had been the principal agents of this effort , which had badly affected the profits of the alcohol industry . |
| 22 | In the longer term the problems arose from a combination of factors including the economic recession ( which had badly affected the revenues from corporate , property and sales taxes which provided the bulk of state incomes ) , the legal obligation of states to balance their budgets , the recent trend of the Reagan and Bush administrations to transfer financial obligations from central to local government , and a rapid escalation in the demands on welfare and prison programmes . |
| 23 | The news of his impending death had badly ruffled his composure . |
| 24 | As its critic Richard Grove had pointed out , the original plan was for the trees to live much longer ( and become more valuable timber ) , only the Commission had badly underestimated how windy it was in the British Isles , and the Sitka spruce suffered badly from ‘ wind-blow ’ , which stressed the timber and made sure that the trees would never reach the grand dimensions they do in their native temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | All were trapped in something inhuman , into which they had dumbly delivered themselves . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | " Scholarship , art and philosophy " , Nietzsche had presciently written nearly two years earlier , " are now growing inside me so much that I 'll be giving birth to centaurs one day . " |
| 29 | Yet even the fact of her absence was cause for congratulation , for what she had presciently foretold had come to pass . |
| 30 | Willie longed desperately to be in Mrs Hartridge 's class even though he had since grown quite fond of Mrs Black . |