Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had successfully stamped it out in his own country , and if he 'd been rather too hard on the jews at the same time , well why not ? |
| 2 | After a sideways hack , played left-handed , a poor shot into a greenside bunker and two putts , Harley had effectively played himself out of contention . |
| 3 | It was true that she had literally brought him back from the dead . |
| 4 | After the third ‘ Carry On ’ , the cast had been offered a profit-sharing scheme — and had all turned it down on the advice of their agents , who thought they would be better off getting increased salaries . |
| 5 | He glanced at Catherine but she had obviously noticed nothing out of the way . |
| 6 | He had long marked her down as a less than sociable woman who appeared to nurse some secret grievance . |
| 7 | He had bullet wounds said to have been inflicted by Mr Athulathmudali 's bodyguard , and had apparently finished himself off by taking cyanide , a method of suicide used by Tamil Tiger guerrillas . |
| 8 | It was seven and the night nurse had already begun her round at the other side of the house when he slipped downstairs . |
| 9 | The patriot had already locked itself on to an Iraqi scud aimed at a Saudi airbase . |
| 10 | While the others stood and gawped , she had already pushed herself over to the storage lockers and was busy tossing the flimsy emergency spacesuits over . |
| 11 | He had already summed her up as someone who hated to admit defeat . |
| 12 | He had already put himself out by agreeing to see Dougal at such short notice . |
| 13 | The current had already sucked us out into the centre of the river , and we were gathering speed downstream . |
| 14 | Mr Wolski knew already that the old eagle had been ailing for months now and that three weeks ago they had finally taken her out of her cage and into the veterinary block to see if there was anything they could do for her . |
| 15 | Heraldic had finally pulled himself up at the start . |
| 16 | The family had just picked her up from hospital in Oxford and were taking her home to Swindon . |
| 17 | Probably , she concluded , it had just washed itself along on a tide of alcohol and that uneasy mixture of salaciousness and sanctimoniousness which characterises these melancholy occasions . |
| 18 | This woman 's firm had totally ripped it off for one of the midmarket youth fashion houses . |
| 19 | Not only did Brown Owl go on living at Longreen and being their Brown Owl ; the Pack won an unexpected new friend in Sir George Phillips , who , when he heard how they had saved the plane 's pilot from disaster in the bog , suddenly turned out to be not ‘ crabby ’ at all , as Mr. Gordon had always made him out to be , but told them that they could use the Longreen Park meadow for just as long as they liked as a reward for their bravery . |
| 20 | But on this particular morning it was taking him longer than usual to kindle the cheeky spark that had always singled him out from the rest . |
| 21 | Until now he had always picked her up from the hospital . |
| 22 | He had screwed girls who hated him before , and had always got something out of it . |
| 23 | It was the first time that Kirov had ever seen him out of uniform . |
| 24 | My Lord that is in dispute , it is in dispute firstly that in fact as a matter of fact , Mr had ever held himself out to be an experienced man er of business , that Peter believed him to be as such , er and in any event , even if he was to seem as such it is the plaintiff 's case that there was still a duty upon the solicitor in that situation . |
| 25 | He had once summed her up to a female student , after several lagers , as ‘ no tits to speak of and even less bum ’ . |
| 26 | The Campbells steamer his mother had once taken him on for a day trip to Ilfracombe . |
| 27 | When Harriet had telephoned with news of the birth , Liza 's mother-in-law had quickly passed her over to her husband . |
| 28 | Denis did n't remember what happened to the bowler hat after the old man had laboured to haul himself up into the cart and , in response to a wave of the gun , had carefully stretched himself out on its messy floor . |
| 29 | The model represented more than Dr. Lorrimer who had been unkind to her and William , who had practically thrown them out of the laboratory . |
| 30 | Once we had sat together in that ‘ condemned ’ gallery until evening , and the sacristan , not knowing we were there , had nearly locked us in for the night . |