Example sentences of "[adv] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dick had persuaded himself ( and so had I ) that a good solution would be a middle school for 9–13-year-olds , and an informed choice of a variety of upper schools thereafter : this would open up a rigid system and preserve the best in the grammar-school tradition , as a counterpoise to the strengths of the Public Schools . |
| 2 | Green gave an interesting account of how this fine bird suffered at the hands of the sheep farmers who had lost lambs and so had to destroy it . |
| 3 | As Eve 's resentment of the family had grown , so had her interest in the cottage dwindled . |
| 4 | At eighty-one now he had outlived his family except for his daughter and her children : his wife had died , so had his son-in-law , and both sons had been killed in the war . |
| 5 | He had been educated at Eton College so had an excellent command of English . |
| 6 | Hatim immediately applied for the job but had since discovered that so had eleven out of fifteen professors in his department , and he was not hopeful of success . |
| 7 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 8 | Turakina certainly knew — her words to him the previous afternoon had simply been a test of his resistance — and if she had knowledge of it , then so had Suragai . |
| 9 | He retired over there : his marriage had gone and so had his daughter 's ’ — and so had Magill 's first marriage she knew : marriages in the secret world had a high casuality rate — ‘ and she went over to keep house for him . ’ |
| 10 | A Hungarian living in Edinburgh taped the pronunciation of difficult place names and luckily one of our team had lived in Hungary , so had a wealth of background information . |
| 11 | I was told that it could spread through the intestines to the stomach and lungs and then you had pretty much had it . |
| 12 | INDIA has long had terrorists who kill and maim to secure secession for various of its 25 states . |
| 13 | She visited the museum and caressed the Elgin Marbles — upon which she , and successive Greek governments , had long had a claim . |
| 14 | Now , with the exception of Lorenzi , who has a young daughter to think about , they can all play full-time in the States — or even , were it to materialise , on the women 's world tour McCormack has long had at the back of his mind . |
| 15 | A few authorities , however , have long had a formal policy of allowing parents to see their children 's school records , and individual schools have sometimes had an open files policy and reported beneficial results to the motivation of pupils and relations with parents . |
| 16 | Cripps , at that time President of the Board of Trade , had long had a penchant for machinery-of-government matters and had been active as a minister in the wartime Coalition on reconstruction committees established to consider the issue . |
| 17 | Pupils have long had the guarantee of a careers service , the promise of a YT place is familiar , and the colleges rarely turn applicants away on any ground except actual lack of room or staff , but the reminder to the young person of their rights is important , as is the willingness of large numbers of companies to take part in what amounts to a joint recruitment exercise . |
| 18 | Almost adjacent to the vineyards of Aÿ , these vines have long had a reputation for producing wines of similar quality and character to the famous grand cru . |
| 19 | But we can be sure of one thing : before the end of the century we will see the telephone metamorphose into the mobile audio-visual communications centre it has long had the potential to become . |
| 20 | Stories can teach , entertain , and entrance , and women have long had a reputation for creating an atmosphere which keeps the listener spellbound . |
| 21 | As he points out , the idea ( and a lot of the lines ) for ‘ Ebeneezer Goode ’ were around before Mister C. And The Shamen had long had their sights set on the charts . |
| 22 | On its new journey it was taken in turn by bike , canoe , sail boat , runners , riders , cyclists and walkers to the north-west , on to Skye and ultimately to Ness in Lewis , where the islanders have long had links with North Rona . |
| 23 | Despite the damage man has done to the Asian elephant , he has long had a close partnership with the great animal founded if not on love then certainly on respect . |
| 24 | Left : Collectair has long had a fascination with the magazine Tee Emm . |
| 25 | Nor are women prominent in senior positions in the professions although they have long had a place there in those areas concerned with women 's affairs which are most clearly associated with their assumed ‘ natural ’ role of caring for and serving others . |
| 26 | Eighteenth-century politics have long had an unsavoury reputation , and although in the case of Scotland much of that reputation can be traced to the persuasive , but not strictly accurate , writings of Henry Cockburn and other Whig reformers of the early nineteenth century , it must be conceded at the outset that there is something to be said for the received account . |
| 27 | The Crown had long had an unquestioned right to commandeer ships from coastal towns . |
| 28 | Of course , the press had been the earliest communications free market , even if , in practice , most European nations have long had an additional element of political party patronage and state aid to individual titles and to the sector as a whole . |
| 29 | At common law the police have long had the power to effect an arrest to prevent a breach of the peace . |
| 30 | The Pic du Midi has long had an observatory on top , a very substantial structure indeed and occupied since I 88 I , after the scientists who started it had got into the arduous habit of spending their winters up here in a small hotel . |