Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] had [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a gleam in his eyes nobody had ever seen before . |
| 2 | Liz , like a pale convent girl too long mewed up , went wild in her first year , as she discovered the world of parties she had hitherto known only by reading and by hearsay : in those days , such was the imbalance between the sexes , women were much in demand as status symbols , as sleeping partners , as lovers , as party ballast , and Liz went out a great deal , her appearance improving dramatically as she did so . |
| 3 | The only sour note was when her memories coincided with those of the supporting artistes and she duplicated a couple of songs they had already warbled through . |
| 4 | Ed and a group of kids he had n't seen before were all slumped around a slick looking computer games console — all plugged into the machine via wires and electrodes . |
| 5 | Her smart blue blazer sported a golden eagle surrounded by words he had never seen before . |
| 6 | He said that in the last two years he had met very few institutions which had not cut back their system budgets following the 1987 crash in share prices in the stock market . |
| 7 | The druggist , a bird-like little man in his fifties who longed to repeat his father 's reputation as town matchmaker , but had so little chance since the youngsters who had n't moved out permanently were commuting to bigger towns , was delighted to see two mature strangers getting together over coffee . |
| 8 | After the Turkish conquest of most of Hungary in the 1520s and 1530s the Hungarian nobles who had then fled westwards often still maintained claims to their former lands and even asserted their right to live tax-free on them for a limited period and to levy feudal dues in them . |
| 9 | The meeting was held to contain and deal with the mobilization of an estimated 400-500 re-contras ( disbanded contras who had again taken up arms ) in the northern Jinotega province . |
| 10 | Traders buying nutmegs and doves from Arabian merchants had been aware of their existence for centuries ; Marco Polo knew roughly where they were , for he saw junk traffic in the ports of Cathay loaded down with spices and manned by suntanned crews who had clearly come there from the south . |
| 11 | We then passed beneath a ranch fence : Parque Nacional Torres del Paine , it announced , and in the distance over a range of low brown grasslands were the sharp spires of a dozen oddly-shaped mountains , twisted and contorted and coloured like no other mountains we had ever seen before . |
| 12 | Raper was jailed for two years and Allen for six months , Sir Nicolas saying it was one of the most serious contempts he had ever come across . |
| 13 | It was this casualness that led him , as Edmund Wilson reported , to be humorous in private about his own reputation , and " offhand and vague " about matters he had once taken seriously . |
| 14 | It was appropriate to the spirit of jazz ( and a useful antidote to the inevitable toe-curling staginess of awards ceremonies in general ) to present two bands of joint American-British instrumentalists who had not worked together before to see what would happen . |
| 15 | She was delighted at having the chance to work with one of the rock world 's most distinguished performers who had already branched out into the movie business . |
| 16 | At Bhamdoun , a hill resort with a little railway station , an ornate French signal box and a clutch of mosques and apartment blocks built by the Saudis who had once gone there for their summer holidays , Syrian shellfire had smashed into the shops and flats , punching a hole into the wall of the Carlton Hotel . |
| 17 | He turned to John Scales who had just come in . |
| 18 | AU these rules she had already broken tonight . |
| 19 | By noon all the squadron 's reserve aircraft were in use , and the mechanics were sucking blood from cut fingers and grazed knuckles as they worked too fast on battered planes which had just creaked home with streaming canvas and smashed spars , or labouring engines , or cracked fuel lines , or crippled controls , or lopsided under-carriage . |
| 20 | After the three less-than-convincing films they had previously made together , Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? brilliantly restored their credibility as performers , and Nichols 's essentially theatrical but competent direction was nominated for an Oscar . |
| 21 | Exhausted by the long words and the morning 's adventure in the corridors he had soon drifted off to sleep . |
| 22 | He had to keep looking for new places he had n't fouled up . |
| 23 | But everyone in the Zoo knew of his love for this particular eagle though all through the years he had resolutely refused ever to handle her . |
| 24 | I felt as if someone had stuck a knife into me — I started to hate Africa then and I went on hating it — I began to hate a lot of things I had n't minded before , when I was happy . |
| 25 | He has made me look at the world again , made me see things I had never seen before , and see familiar things in a new light . |
| 26 | But as a case for a ‘ radical extension ’ of industrial democracy by means requiring the assumption by unreformed trade unions of rights which had hitherto attached only to ownership , it merits at this point no more than a suspended judgment at best . |
| 27 | Just as Ella had cared for the poor and the prostitute whom no one had wanted to know so Eva began to appreciate feelings she had only known before in her work in Africa . |
| 28 | His cultured voice and charming manners aroused feelings she had never experienced before . |
| 29 | Although such heresies were far more common in America and in England than they were in Ulster , Ulster Protestants knew of these postures and could see that their own denominations were in formal organizational contact with other churches which did not move to sack ministers and theologians who had obviously given up the traditional beliefs affirmed at their ordinations . |
| 30 | As Creggan soared upwards he found himself lost in a swirling black wind in which were scattered moving lights , swaying trees and strange sounds he had never heard before . |