Example sentences of "had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For as a girl , she herself had been taken through the world , as through a series of doors , by her young husband , each door opening on to fresh joys and colours and perspectives , and she had exclaimed in delight , followed him , learned , and even afterwards , when the final door had shut , she could retrace her steps , spend a longer and longer time in each place , as in a series of gardens , and gratefully . |
| 2 | I exclaimed — as once I had exclaimed when reading the Electra . |
| 3 | She had exclaimed : |
| 4 | ‘ It 's all bitter , ’ young Tilney had exclaimed . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course it 's Silas , ’ Bertha had exclaimed irritably within five minutes of Lucy 's arrival at the large house nestling among trees and gardens in the most expensive area of Hastings . |
| 6 | Chris had exclaimed when she heard that . |
| 7 | Luce had exclaimed . |
| 8 | By the end of 1939 only 331 of these children had re-emigrated , either to join their parents or relatives mostly in Palestine or the United States . |
| 9 | It was a relief that he did not try to speak , and when they came out at the landscaped clearing with its wooden bench seat overlooking the water she had readied herself to speak first . |
| 10 | He had trawled for views and ideas , as has become his method . |
| 11 | The bath had invigorated her , and she got into bed in better spirits , and opened Gay 's letter , anticipating a good laugh . |
| 12 | Over Maurice 's allegations , Unionists voted under no illusions ; Maurice had indicted Law as well as Lloyd George , and a packed meeting of the UWC under Carson resolved to back the government , not because they believed its explanations but because of their belief in the war . |
| 13 | In May a federal grand jury had indicted former federal housing official James E. Baugh and contractor John B. Clyburn on charges of conspiracy and bribery . |
| 14 | On a tiny budget , Marrakesh had outpaced London , New York , Los Angeles , and Tokyo . |
| 15 | D-1 competes with Mannesmann Mobilfunk 's GmbH 's D-2 system , and Telekom conceded that the Mannesmann network had outpaced its own D-1 system in winning subscribers , and that its own share was well below 50% . |
| 16 | It would not look too good if a 110 flown by a man well over forty had outpaced and outmanoeuvred two Spitfires piloted by ‘ the cream ’ . |
| 17 | Anna was growing tall , and her black hair was so unruly Peg had plaited it to keep it away from her pale face . |
| 18 | Some of them had plaited scraps of cloth in their long black hair and all wore beads around their necks . |
| 19 | Aileen Stewart had placed an eighteen-inch pie in the very centre of the board ; its summit gleamed yellow with a basting of egg . |
| 20 | Capricorn , giving that address , had placed insurance policies at Lloyd 's up to £1.1m for a wide variety of categories of objects of art . |
| 21 | While Jackson , who had just returned from filming a television clip , was mildly bemoaning the pressure it had placed on him to be ‘ incredibly entertaining for one minute ’ , his press officer was engaged in ordering him a beer from room service . |
| 22 | By the end of March , after five months of operation , Springboard had placed 3,000 people in work , and , despite the recession , had handled over 200 vacancies a week . |
| 23 | It claimed patients would have more choice over which hospital they went to , but in fact they would have less because they would have to go to the hospital with which their district health authority had placed a contract , he said . |
| 24 | In anticipation of an army coup , Croatia and Slovenia had placed on alert the security forces under their control — the police and the newly formed gendarmerie , the so-called specijalci . |
| 25 | But he was under a cloud anyway after his men failed to find who had placed a bomb in the office of Major-General Seri Temiyaveh , the head of the Bangkok police department 's crime-suppression division . |
| 26 | ( Many years before , an uncle of mine had run along the top of that wall carrying a doormat which he had placed carefully on top of the chimney of the little building adjacent called the Reading Room . |
| 27 | The parliamentary straightjacket which the Labour Party had placed itself in was inimical to violent change . |
| 28 | It was the first time , since the 1916 split , that all the major political leaders within the Liberal Party — David Lloyd George , Sir Herbert Samuel and Sir John Simon — had placed their names upon a major economic report . |
| 29 | She had placed the worm-cake on one of her prettiest saucers . |
| 30 | His solemn burial was at Constantinople alongside the cenotaphs of the twelve apostles which he had placed in the church of the apostles on the city 's highest hill . |