Example sentences of "had [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I exclaimed — as once I had exclaimed when reading the Electra . |
| 2 | Chris had exclaimed when she heard that . |
| 3 | Only two subjects in the nicotine patch and one in the placebo group had withdrawn because of side effects . |
| 4 | I 'd never known Hilda well , my father had remarried after I had left home , and Susan was already sixteen . |
| 5 | He had guessed than that it was his mother — with Senga in tow — heading off to ten o'clock Mass in the nearby church . |
| 6 | It also provided an opportunity for Devi Lal , whom Singh had dismissed as his deputy in August , to rally opposition to the government [ see pp. 37710-11 ; 37774-75 ] . |
| 7 | She had dismissed as rubbish Nina 's allegations that the men thought he was interested in her , but she had to admit he was good company , and for the next half-hour he entertained her with stories of his work in Australia , of the people he 'd met and of his excursions into the bush and to the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 8 | Long queues had formed before the car was towed away by police . |
| 9 | Based in Gloucestershire , the organization had formed after a series of childhood leukaemia cases was discovered in and around the village of Lydney , directly across the Severn Estuary from the nuclear power station at Berkeley . |
| 10 | This opinion was consistent with the opinion which Mr. Tinker had formed while the deceased was at Samuel Saye House and that Dr. Rao had formed in the period before the deceased 's death . |
| 11 | With one hand he would try to mend Britain 's fences with the United States by using his own close relationship with President Eisenhower and other senior members of the US Administration , which he had formed when he was British political adviser at Eisenhower 's Allied Force Headquarters in the Mediterranean during the War . |
| 12 | If composers such as Mahler , Scriabin , Mussorgsky , Prokofiev and Richard Strauss had collaborated as equals with musicians from the European colonies of Brazil , Cuba , Haiti , Nigeria , Ghana , Cameroon and Congo , what a sound they would have made . |
| 13 | Faded photographs , familiar as wallpaper , looked down upon us ; and water-colours she had painted when a girl holidaying in Switzerland . |
| 14 | A GUN collector has been ordered by a court to give up the arsenal of weapons he had gathered since he was 16 . |
| 15 | As he ran , his senses remained alert to the night around him , to ensure he did not run slap into any other hunting parties like the one that had intervened when he was dealing with Grant . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , reports on Sept. 20 said that a Harvard University medical team which had recently returned from Iraq had found that the number of child deaths due to malnutrition and disease had trebled since the imposition of sanctions . |
| 17 | Rounding up the elephants and trying to count them was a hellish job , much more difficult than anyone had foreseen because of the vast area , the confusing vegetation and terrain , and the impossibility of labelling the beasts or keeping track of them once they had been found and counted once . |
| 18 | In June , 1978 , two girl Salvationists were killed at Usher during the unrest Eva had foreseen if the Africans were not given leadership . |
| 19 | My father had to drive as I was pretty upset . |
| 20 | Cole adds that what actually happened when the Pioneers engaged in production was not what they had intended when they started their co-operative ; and goes on to offer a more detailed explanation : The Rochdale Manufacturing Society was set up in 1854 , Supposing that , as an expression of democracy , Co-operative principles are as valid for the producer working in the factory producing goods for sale in the Co-operative store as they are for the consumer buying them there , a newcomer to the story might find it surprising that the Pioneers ' belief is presented , if not itself as a matter for surprise , then certainly one for explanation . |
| 21 | Briefly put , the law is now back to what Parliament had intended when it enacted the Act of 1906 — but stronger and clearer than it was then . ’ |
| 22 | Because you knew that they both had to agree before anything was done . |
| 23 | She was sent to me by her doctor , whom she had consulted because she suffered from anxiety attacks and what she called ‘ turns ’ . |
| 24 | The child they had reared until some solution could be found . |
| 25 | I ai n't been to no doctor 's , well I 'm lying I had to go again , I had to like because I 've been getting these here bloody , I must 've had them ten or fifteen year or more and , cos I 'm on these here tablets now for the old stomach like , and that like . |
| 26 | Inevitably , he had flooded the engine , and then had to wait before he could try again , and still no sign of life . |
| 27 | Peter Jacobsen took great delight in tackling him , but we had to wait while it was going on . |
| 28 | Eva had become eccentric : when a decision was needed Ted and I often had to wait while she retired upstairs and meditated on the exact shape of the conservatory or the dimensions of the kitchen . |
| 29 | They had to wait while the Substitute put on his new galoshes , murmuring with a cigar between his teeth : ‘ Do n't want to miss anything this time … ’ |
| 30 | And then we had to wait while they poured them in the moulds , but if the moulds failed , and they were rather big , they was full of air-holes and they used to turn it all into a fine just l l pebbles of molten metal , straight back up at you , and you could n't move cos if you moved your crane then somebody would have been killed with out the ladles . |