Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The robe had tripped me each time I had stooped low enough to exert sufficient force , so I had taken it off . |
| 2 | In the end I had got just enough to make the short film , but it did n't tell the story I had hoped to tell , and I was angered by my subject 's persecution — by the way the whole species was treated . |
| 3 | Even so , she had lingered long enough to watch a tanker ploughing a parallel course , though in the opposite direction , probably bound for the big oil refinery . |
| 4 | She had wanted so desperately to find out the truth about Luke , but now that was the last thing she wanted to know . |
| 5 | And she had wanted so badly to stay alive . |
| 6 | Others who had coped well enough to begin with on those scanty mill wages , who had even picked themselves up and patched things together , the first time that demon of bad trade had halved their weekly pay ; the first time there had been sickness and doctors ' bills to eat up anything they had been able to put by during the good times — never much ; the first time a husband had suffered injury at the mill or the foundry , which meant no weekly pay-packet at all . |
| 7 | Luckily for them they had been fed and wormed regularly but no one had got near enough to handle them or consequently to put a halter on them . |
| 8 | We had come so far to find this . |
| 9 | In a while we had drawn close enough to sight the planet itself — a slowly enlarging spot of brightness on the ceptor screens — by which time Posi had contacted the spaceport . |
| 10 | I assess the student 's ability and level of performance , and I might come to the conclusion that they had done pretty well to get those grades ; or it might be obvious that they could have done better . ’ |
| 11 | Tom Dawson had hovered on the brink between life and death , and all the time they had worked so desperately to save him , she had been aware that it was n't just one life they had been fighting for but two . |
| 12 | It had fallen too slowly to break but the wine had flowed out and made a dark stain like blood on the white candlewick . |
| 13 | He had stayed long enough to see the first stage of the counter-inflation policy accepted and the clash and confrontation of two years earlier replaced by a new partnership . |
| 14 | He had hoped then also to find a publisher who was prepared to offer a comparable insight into the operation of an academic publishing house , but no publisher had accepted the brief , possibly for fear of revealing intimate company details . |
| 15 | If he had lived long enough to see Henry crowned king at Westminster he would have been able to carry out his plan of leaving Anjou to his second son Geoffrey . |
| 16 | Aggressive French patrols had prevented Sharpe getting close to the road a second time , but he had ridden near enough to see the dust clouds drifting away from the boots , hooves and wheels of an army on the march . |
| 17 | No , it was being here with Fen , knowing that they were alone in the house , remembering the measures he had taken once before to restore warmth to her body . |
| 18 | He had tried once already to talk to Nicholas about it , and had been kicked on the ankle by le Grant . |
| 19 | Manville remembered now , what it had all been about , why he had needed so desperately to return to this , at least once before he died . |
| 20 | Seb knew he had failed yet again to break through the barrier of embarrassment that lay between them , and he did not know what to do about it . |