Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover it is true that in one or two specific minor ways the express tried positively to limit serfdom — by ordering in 1781 that war prisoners were in future to become free men if they were converted to Orthodoxy ; and by reducing the possibilities which had hitherto existed of enserfment by marriage . |
| 2 | people had hitherto talked of the aftermath of nuclear bombing as ‘ catastrophic ’ ; he introduced the concept of ‘ acceptable damage ’ . |
| 3 | Her three eldest sons had all died of disease , and the fourth had not yet been born . |
| 4 | I think I did see him die , with the look of utter peace I had only read of previously . |
| 5 | They took her to a small , perfect restaurant , where she had never been before , and fed her on soup and fish and meat and cheese , all of a quality and in quantities she had only dreamed of during the war . |
| 6 | One lady even came armed with a floral chamber pot — she had obviously heard of the 14/20 Hussars Mess Dinners where a similar receptacle , but of silver is used for drinking . |
| 7 | Something unforeseen and urgent had happened , since Sean had obviously known of it yesterday afternoon , and there had been no opportunity for him to inform her . |
| 8 | In the Supreme Court 's ruling , the normally conservative Sandra Day O'Connor , the only female justice , voted with the liberal minority ; the decisive vote proved to be that of David Souter , Bush 's only appointee to the Court , whom abortion rights advocates had long suspected of harbouring anti-abortionist views . |
| 9 | Court Treatt had long dreamed of making the hitherto unattempted journey by car from the Cape to Cairo , and had already surveyed the route by air . |
| 10 | It was an excitement that matched my own , for I had never sailed the South Seas and I had long dreamed of that scatter of tiny , magically named islands strewn across one third of a globe . |
| 11 | P appealed to the High Court , contending that no part of his interest ‘ came to an end ’ within para 4(2) ; he had merely disposed of shares in Q. Similarly , para 4(2) was not deemed to operate by virtue of para 4(1) , which provided that a disposal of an interest in possession of any property was not a transfer of value , but should be treated as the coming to the end of an interest in possession , bringing into play para 4(2) . |
| 12 | Yet in Parliament in 1593 he had apparently spoken of the need to maximize yields from royal assets in order to finance the strong army which he thought so important . |
| 13 | Also , by the time of publication , the world had already heard of Hawking 's genius ; FRS at 32 and Lucasian Professor ( Newton 's former chair ) at 37 ; a brilliant mind trapped by motor neurone disease in an ever-wasting body . |
| 14 | Nicholson , by now , had already heard of Easy Rider . |
| 15 | He had already heard of us on the river grapevine , about our journey upriver with Muhammad and Milhaez and Romany . |
| 16 | It also ignored the fact that most Lionisers had already heard of Rochester and were aware of the importance of Rochester in the canon of the Great Lion . |
| 17 | To the people who had already heard of her illness and sent her cards and good wishes Molly sends her grateful thanks . |
| 18 | Two had already died of starvation and young children were reported to be very weak from lack of food . |
| 19 | By the time the Earthtrust team arrived , two nursing calves had already died of starvation after being separated from their mothers . |
| 20 | His rightful heir , according to the tradition of tanistry , should have been Kenneth III 's grandson , but Malcolm had already disposed of him and other possible candidates while laying plans for his own grandson Duncan to succeed . |
| 21 | In 1528 , when he perhaps helped to garrison Guisnes , offices in Salisbury eluded him because Thomas Wolsey [ q.v. ] had already disposed of them ; by 1530 it was Wolsey who needed Baynton 's goodwill . |
| 22 | Poole , as one who had already thought of emigrating to America , listened sympathetically ; but he saw at once that the scheme could never succeed , remarking to a friend that however perfectible human nature might be , it was ‘ not yet perfect enough ’ for Pantisocracy . |
| 23 | Fred had already thought of it and shook his head . |
| 24 | But Louise had already thought of that . |
| 25 | When he had dismounted , he broke me a piece , though I had not complained of hunger . |
| 26 | And I never went to see Arafat since 1982 because we had not heard of any mood or climate of change in the attitude of the PLO . |
| 27 | Half those questioned had not heard of SERPS — which might not have been surprising had it not been that most were members of it . |
| 28 | And she believed the whales would remain at Laspi Bay at least for the summer , and had not heard of the widely criticised plans to take them on a travelling display . |
| 29 | AFTER a few minutes in the company of Joe Boyd , I was wondering whether there was anybody in world music he had not heard of . |
| 30 | I was told by a Milanese , with a wry smile , that it was as well the prophet had not heard of smog , or that would have been included as well . |