Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , as it happened , he was registering well above par that evening , for three of the four ideas he had formulated were finally to prove wholly correct . |
| 2 | What was most disastrous about the educated response to American and British cinema was the way in which good movies or movies that had impressed were conveniently forgotten . |
| 3 | That Mar failed where Monck and William of Orange had succeeded is partly related to military factors , but also reflects the fact that neither the domestic political crisis was so severe nor popular disaffection so widespread in 1714 – 15 as it had been in either 1659 – 60 or 1688 – 9 . |
| 4 | And what impact it had made was soon dissipated when it was realized that the ‘ total ’ war was still only partial after all , and that the well-to-do and high-and-mighty were still able to avoid the burdens which fell on ordinary people . |
| 5 | At the time that Friedman was airing his dissatisfaction with the Phillips curve , the complex econometric models of inflation which its discovery had spawned were still predicting inflation reasonably well . |
| 6 | Whatever leisure the holidays had promised was now ended . |
| 7 | Crude analysis — The crude percentage of patients whose ulcers had relapsed was also calculated to allow a comparison with some previously published trials , although it sould be stressed that this method underestimates the true relapse time . |
| 8 | Those who had escaped were immediately purged to other camps . |
| 9 | Whatever momentary spasm of pleasure he had experienced was now forgotten . |
| 10 | The security she had known was suddenly gone , her small world shattered . |
| 11 | She stiffened as his persistent probing began to stir more deeply , memories she had imagined were safely buried . |
| 12 | Earlier she 'd eaten some of the traditional casserole — fried rabbit in red wine — but any appetite she had left was rapidly deserting her . |
| 13 | The ex-church and crown lands which he had acquired were automatically forfeit ; the residue of his property was confiscated by his retrospective attainder as a regicide . |
| 14 | The shock of what she had read was just wearing off . |