Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had consolidated their position since the fifteenth century and had latterly built up an impregnable position in the social infrastructure of the region . |
| 2 | Soldiers had since picked up the habit of wine-drinking in France during the war and upon returning to England had educated the middle classes , further increasing the popularity of Champagne in the immediate post-war years . |
| 3 | Two of the three men who had drunk and joked together that evening at Amstetten had since wandered out into the dark . |
| 4 | Kylie had cathartically climbed out of her demure old skin into a naughtier new one — with the world watching . |
| 5 | In fact , the very first paragraph of the Brazzaville Conference report had expressly ruled out self-determination as a possibility , and during the RPF years de Gaulle had made fairly explicit statements in favour of preserving the empire . |
| 6 | She came to a point where she could see far over the town , she had instinctively gone up following the fleeing daylight , and the mist over there under a sky that was greyish and purplish and darkening again , became apparent because it was being lit up from those distant buildings and streets , the points of light vibrating through the moisture . |
| 7 | Many responsible people had eventually given up and resigned from the Branch Committee . |
| 8 | SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone . |
| 9 | After leaving school he had been unable to settle , had wandered from place to place and had eventually landed up in Borstal , where his crimes had given him a reputation for toughness and ruthlessness which he had felt compelled to live up to ( although at the same time hating it and himself ) . |
| 10 | When she had eventually plucked up her courage and looked out of the window , she had been entranced by the views from the carriage and the speed of travel . |
| 11 | ‘ The Geese and the Ghost ’ was quite successful once it had eventually gone out . |
| 12 | Happily Herbert had eventually trotted off and to Amy 's distress had been seen no more , although his lead still hung on the caravan door , a limp reminder of her bereavement . |
| 13 | However , not merely was there a conflict of medical evidence , but even Dr. D. , upon whose opinion Thorpe J. eventually based his decision , described W. as having ‘ a mild case of anorexia nervosa ’ and that although he ( Dr. D. ) had eventually come round to the view that W. should be treated at the specialist London unit , the decision was quite finely balanced . |
| 14 | And though it had struck her as a slightly odd remark for a man on the brink of marriage to make , she most probably would n't have thought any more about it if he had responded to the way she had light-heartedly picked up on it with his usual unassailable self-assurance . |
| 15 | However the Earl John had duly turned up at Edinburgh , with one hundred and fifty men and the information that the enemy had passed well to the east of Doune . |
| 16 | He sent most of his staff into the embassy vault where they set about burning and shredding the classified papers that remained ( he had most shipped out of the country already ) , destroying the cryptographic equipment and dismantling the controlling element in the satellite communications station . |
| 17 | There was only a handful of mourners at Gillamoor Church , as Uncle George had rarely gone out of the little dale . |
| 18 | Her name had rarely cropped up after that . |
| 19 | Yesterday it announced figures for the first half of 1989 so late in the day that the London market had mostly packed up and gone home by the time the screens showed that profits had risen from Ir £109m to Ir £121m and earnings were up from 21.7p to 25.4p basic . |
| 20 | Paige glanced up from the rock she had wearily sunk on to . |
| 21 | Finance ministers Theo Waigel of Germany and Michel Sapin of France said after talks in Bonn that close co-operation between their two countries had successfully fended off speculative attacks on the franc . |
| 22 | She had made a complete fool of herself and had successfully lived down to every low opinion that Piers harboured about her . |
| 23 | Many , he said , were convinced that they had had no managerial experience , yet they had successfully brought up children , run a home , and far more . |
| 24 | And Senator Eagleton , who had successfully brought in a reclassification amendment so that amphetamine would be more tightly controlled , stated , when he saw the amendment subsequently overturned : ‘ when the chips are down , the power of the drug companies was simply more compelling than any appeal to the public welfare ’ ( p. 53 ) . |
| 25 | This had a solid crust generally capable only of bearing the weight of a man , but the LRDG had successfully worked out a route for vehicles . |
| 26 | I felt , by doing that , I had effectively stepped back in time and discovered the one thing that should have been thought of before we even harnessed electricity . |
| 27 | Delegates also expressed concern over the success of the anti-fur trade campaign , which had effectively shut down many of the markets for one of the Inuits ' principal exports . |
| 28 | By the 1860S , middle-class holiday-makers had effectively taken over the resorts . |
| 29 | Mitsotakis 's sensitivity on the issue of his family 's political involvement was seen to reflect his desire to avoid charges of unethical conduct by his government , the issue which had effectively brought down his ( socialist ) predecessor Andreas Papandreou . |
| 30 | Hipper , steaming northward parallel to Beatty , again sighted his enemy to the west at about 17.40 ; he immediately turned east but was then bombarded by Hood , who had inadvertently taken up a wrong station . |