Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few brave or lucky people had jumped and somehow survived , but very few . |
| 2 | Nothing in Australian society nor in the easy commerce between don and undergraduate which she had witnessed and occasionally shared with Michael at Cambridge , had prepared her for this . |
| 3 | Revocation may occur , for instance , where the defendant who is alleged to have infringed the patent can establish that he had developed and publicly used the substance of the patented invention ( perhaps in another country and even for non-commercial purposes ) before the employer From the employee 's point of view , revocation of the patent almost inevitably removes the opportunity which the employer had to make substantial gains from the invention . |
| 4 | As Walvin ( 1986:9 ) explains , ‘ The country which had developed and then exported the game found itself ostracised and reviled in the world 's footballing fraternity . ’ |
| 5 | Bernie believes some parts , mainly the rivets , had corroded and so protected the hull because they were tightly bound to the 11 mm steel . |
| 6 | It was not his water bottle which had leaked and now lay empty , though , |
| 7 | Mr Maclean said outbreaks of Salmonella enteriditis and reports of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy had stabilised but also recognised that the problem had not disappeared , just that interest had waned . |
| 8 | She glanced down at the empty hearth , where the crumpled page had fallen and partly unfurled . |
| 9 | One of the four mock-doric pillars had fallen and now lay , like the broken leg of a stone giant , half-buried in the window frame behind where it had previously stood . |
| 10 | Unable to practise , he turned to teaching at Cheltenham School of Architecture close to the home he had designed and substantially built at Malvern , despite his affliction , and became deputy principal . |
| 11 | THE RALLY started on Sunday , 2 February at 10 am and the freezing cold morning saw many last-minute checks by various crews on all those things they had forgotten or already checked three times . |
| 12 | Aliki had returned from Cyprus in time to cater for the event , but nobody displayed much appetite for the food she had prepared and most departed as soon as decency permitted . |
| 13 | Now I won that game , losing just two ‘ pieces ’ , but only after I left with the comeliest ‘ piece ’ of all , a wench from the imperial harem , did Suleiman discover that I had cheated and publicly marked me down for death . |
| 14 | It provided answers to every conceivable question with an assurance and a seemingly impregnable logic which the romantics of the 1940s , the nihilists of the 1860s , and the populists of the 1870s had sought but never found . |
| 15 | He took off , flying low and keeping out of sight , tilting quickly up above a treeline to check what he had seen and then tipping out of sight again . |
| 16 | Tallboy thought about what he had said but then battled on . |
| 17 | Blanche took a second to focus on what he had said and then laughed . |
| 18 | Robyn listened , stared , digesting all that he had said and then looked back at the magnificent sixty-foot holly tree . |
| 19 | One evening when Zbo and Modi were sitting together in a café , Modigliani finished a sketch he had made and then tore the page out of his blue sketchbook . |
| 20 | I spoke with the MM who had never heard of me , never read anything I had written and never heard anything I 've said on radio , e.g. to callers on advice line phone-ins . |
| 21 | He had risen and now stood watching her go towards the side door . |
| 22 | She had risen and now stood staring at him , trembling visibly and feeling as if a puff of wind would knock her down again . |
| 23 | And then suddenly she had swooped and practically ordered him into her car which , it transpired , she did not have . |
| 24 | He had thought that perhaps Osbern or some of his friends still on horseback might have got through , provided the fighting was over . |
| 25 | He would not attempt to vindicate the incorrect manner in which he had acted and sincerely lamented . |
| 26 | But this time we learned from our mistake , went after them with everything we had got and just pushed them through into the open sea . ’ |
| 27 | The number of people I 've talked to that I definitely knew had got and never knew they had got it . |
| 28 | She managed so well that on the Wednesday in Hartford she even got her encore , which she had rehearsed and never had the chance to perform , ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ . |
| 29 | The plaintiff , being unaware of this exemption , paid dues upon limestone which he had landed and ultimately burnt into lime . |
| 30 | The first review was written mainly for the many within and outside the congregation who had participated and therefore knew the scheme of things . |