Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least once in their lives , most of these men would have met Thorfinn : more perhaps than had come face to face with King Duncan in the six years of his reign and before , when he had been prince of Cumbria in the shadow of Malcolm his grandfather . |
| 2 | It was often used simply to mean a situation better than had prevailed before the war and it had a powerful if vague appeal . |
| 3 | Obviously that had occurred to him too . |
| 4 | So that had to go back and I had to find my Visa card much to the annoyance of people queuing behind me . |
| 5 | It was not the beauty alone that had made me draw in my breath . |
| 6 | Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future . |
| 7 | Turnout was in the region of 30 to 35 per cent of the 4,700,000 electorate , less than had voted in October 's presidential elections in which President Félix Houphouët-Boigny , Africa 's longest-serving head of state , was returned for a seventh five-year term [ see p. 37767 ] . |
| 8 | We reported a couple of years back that just as leading US companies like IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co were adopting Total Quality Management with messianic zeal , the Japanese had decided that it was not good enough and had moved on to Zero-Defects Management , and the Financial Times ' Observer column offers an example of just why : it has a release that flags ‘ the first major conference on Total Quality Management for Pension Finds ’ . |
| 9 | It was as if someone had been trapped inside and had kicked and beaten the door — perhaps without success — until the power had gone and they had been able to drive back down the hill . |
| 10 | Subsequently the contemnor complained to the local authority that they had not served the committal order on him personally and had failed to comply with the instruction issued by the Clerk of the Rules , that ‘ in all cases the applicant 's solicitors are responsible for serving the committal order ’ and that in consequence the order should be set aside . |
| 11 | But he had finally done so and had seen other eagles , each in his own cage , all mature , all seeming big and threatening . |
| 12 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) . |
| 13 | They had moved together and had stood in front of a monument , seemingly absorbed . |
| 14 | well we help with the dinner , but I said who was it that decided what you 're having and got the ingredients together and had decided |
| 15 | After its financial disaster in 1720 the South Sea Company had pulled itself together and had tried to trade with South America as though nothing had happened . |
| 16 | We were thrown together and had to get on with it . ’ |
| 17 | I said I thought it too valuable to wear constantly and had put it in my dressing-table drawer . |
| 18 | She said he had agreed to do so but had driven off when she shouted for her father . |
| 19 | The same collision that had spoiled the Prophet 's aim , had also smashed his car out of his one-handed control , much as had happened to Sherman two nights previously . |
| 20 | Retailers were confident that they could trust such customers implicitly to pay for the goods they took away or had delivered . |
| 21 | Somehow that had made him talk about things here . |
| 22 | He 'd applauded politely at the end of every number , but seemed totally unmoved , and somehow that had made her try all the harder , as though it were imperative that she reach him . |
| 23 | Instead , the organizers staged a hoax on the 39 horses and their jockeys , together with their trainers , owners and other hangers-on , the few tens of thousands of people waiting in the rain at Aintree ( near Liverpool ) , those who had wagered £75 million on the outcome of the race in Britain alone and the score of broadcasting organizations elsewhere that had brought the right to show the event on television . |
| 24 | I guessed , as everyone else must have done , that at some point she could not manage her life any longer and had gone out and stepped into the stream as a way of escape . |
| 25 | Jordan later discovered that two of his party had managed to get away and had made for the rendezvous point which the group aiming for Martuba was to use . |
| 26 | ( Mr and Mrs William Plowden were away and had sent their apologies . ) |
| 27 | Is he aware also that during that time scale many seriously ill patients had to be turned away and had to go to other hospitals and that patients using the unit had to be taken out of it prematurely so that others more seriously ill could take their place ? |
| 28 | He had sent his nurse away and had told nobody about Mary 's visit . |
| 29 | More non-enrollers than migrants said they intended to do a course in the future ( 63% compared with 40% ) and the non-enrollers were also much more likely to say they wanted to start the course very soon and had made enquiries about it . |
| 30 | If one wanted to meet someone in London who is in fact elsewhere and had to spend a morning travelling which one could pleasantly have spent in bed , then the desire to travel can be faulted . |