Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also cared deeply for his sister , and their afternoon together had proved he had a sense of humour and could be a considerate and friendly companion . |
| 2 | The centre of Dixie 's shirt caves in instantly , as if a hidden mouth inside had sucked at it and vomited blood . |
| 3 | The finding that some of the patients with isolated proctitis also had increased release of myeloperoxidase and IL-8 in the seemingly unaffected sigmoid segment might reflect a patchy , low degree sigmoid inflammation missed by endoscopy . |
| 4 | I could only conclude she was now so weak that not just her body , her mind also had come totally under the Monster 's control . |
| 5 | If the gorgeous actress really had set her sights on Dane , and it seemed she had , he probably would n't even want to resist . |
| 6 | One day just below their balcony a man had got out of his car and gone to the car in front and opened that car 's door and started shouting at the man inside , and then the car behind had started hooting and others had joined in . |
| 7 | Maybe the fraught confrontation earlier had defused some of the tension building up between them . |
| 8 | The silver car ahead had disappeared . |
| 9 | These led on to the further issues of the relation between Christianity and other religions in general , and of the impact of the critical study of religions on Christian theology ; for that study too had made huge strides through the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | Safire too had worked in the OEOB for a while , as a speechwriter . |
| 11 | Even so , the number of those who believed that Hitler would have been one of the greatest German statesmen of all time had it not been for the war remained relatively high , though this figure too had fallen sharply ( from 48 per cent in 1955 to 32 per cent by 1967 ) . |
| 12 | So he walked back into the piazza , while the church bells rang out with a dud sound , for the priest never had learnt how to stop the bell cutting its own resonance on the return of the clapper , and the musicians of the town who could have taught him were all adversaries of the church , like Davide 's father . |
| 13 | Several teachers suggested the re-introduction of group membership as they felt the change over had caused many not to renew and teachers did not seem able to keep track of those who did . |
| 14 | Thick was the snow on field and hedge And vanished with the river 's edge , Where winter skilfully had wound A shining scarf without a sound . |
| 15 | Shama meanwhile had begun to sift through a small sheaf of numbered pages . |
| 16 | It had obviously once been a door , but the stone lintel above had given way centuries before . |
| 17 | Although we 'd been left pretty much to our own devices in the last months in the Pit , the year and a half underground had become increasingly depressing . |
| 18 | The gunman then had turned to him . |
| 19 | She liked the way she had not openly offered reconciliation yet had managed to imply that forgiveness would not be unreasonably withheld . |
| 20 | The huge leap forward had taken place in the eighties when he had used junk bonds to enlarge his empire at a fantastic pace — until suddenly it was realized in the States that Hauser controlled the largest private financial institution in the republic . |
| 21 | The tiny Regency houses had no doubt been listed to spare them the attentions of developers ; from the state of the paving stones and the grass-studded cracks in the roadway , it seemed that the town council too had passed them by . |
| 22 | The theme that the right alone had espoused for years — German unification — had overnight become official state policy , leaving the extreme right temporarily disarmed . |
| 23 | He was older , pale-skinned and looked too thin to be a welterweight , but the right cross that had put his younger opponent down had belied his looks . |
| 24 | Simon by then had heavily said , ‘ This hurts me more than it hurts you ’ to Pippa , and when the chaos was over Thomas began to laugh , for he had seen that the lash of the crop literally had curled round onto Simon 's back between each stroke , probably quite stingingly , though the man had been too excited to notice it . |
| 25 | In the interval much had happened to Marx and he was by then an exile in London in a place and a situation where inevitably he was more remote from the centres of political action . |
| 26 | The room downstairs had grown quiet , yet still the Irishman had not emerged . |
| 27 | But Meredith noticed that the movement of the group backwards had served further to isolate her adversary with the placard and the beard . |
| 28 | ‘ Do n't you dare ! ’ she squealed , trying to push him off the edge of the sun-lounger and into the swimming-pool , which was how the accident yesterday had happened , fooling around by the poolside like a couple of kids when Ruth had slipped on a supposedly non-slip surface and wrenched her ankle . |
| 29 | THE WAILERS ' ‘ Catch A Fire ’ was out by then , sure , but it was this soundtrack ( to a fantastic star-shoots-his-way-out-of-the-ghetto film starring Jimmy Cliff ) which finally and unimpeachably established the fact that skinhead ska really had metamorphosed into rude boy reggae and that the island of Jamaica was about to embark on a decade of musical creativity unmatched anywhere before or since . |
| 30 | The black eyes that had been sparkling with good humour a moment before had become hard , almost angry . |