Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had grown more and more tired , energy seeped away and I had begun to sweat at night . |
| 2 | In addition , I had hoped to put in motion programmes in 3 separate areas and I hope that they still may be started in the not too distant future . |
| 3 | In the earlier years of living with her he had sometimes left her a note speared on the kitchen tap before he went out for his walk — stirred and perhaps even drawn by the sight of her plain , flushed face in bed , which had begun to acquire in sleep a look of distress and disappointment . |
| 4 | Tutilo 's habit shimmered about the shoulders with the soft and soundless rain of Spring , which had begun to fall in mid-evening , his curls were damp and ruffled , and the hand he passed across his forehead to brush them back left a dark smear behind . |
| 5 | Windmills , which had begun to come into existence during the 16th century were by now a common sight throughout the Lothians . |
| 6 | Before he had fully conceived the idea of The Four Quartets , he had remarked that what drew him to Beethoven was that in these last works the composer did what he himself had sought to do in poetry — and may have actually done in ‘ forty or fifty lines ’ — namely to ‘ get beyond ’ that art . |
| 7 | Not long ago she had begun to talk of life not being worth living again and she had demanded that Harry should tell her , once and for all , why it was worth living . |
| 8 | She had begun to sweat with discomfort . |
| 9 | She had already met this young man , when he had last come to pay his rent , and found him startlingly different from the Welsh boys of her acquaintance — a big , silent boy with disillusioned , almond-shaped eyes sunk above high cheek bones , a boy who had stared unblinkingly at her until she had begun to blush with embarrassment , so that she had felt stripped , not only physically but mentally as well . |
| 10 | Because the queues at the sandwich bar had been so horrendous that she had decided to go without lunch and now she was feeling disconnected and light-headed . |
| 11 | Once she had decided to go into publishing , she set out conscientiously to fulfil her aim by getting three qualifications for the job : bookshop experience , a degree in English and secretarial skills . |
| 12 | Below it stood the childhood doll 's house she had intended to renovate for posterity and the guitar whose broken strings had halted her on the path to world fame as a singer of gypsy ballads , in a costume of scarlet and yellow sewn with little mirrors . |
| 13 | She had vowed to fight for Roman 's love , but how could she when he only wanted her for a stopgap while Dana was away ? |
| 14 | She had wanted to fall in love , she had willed it , and her body had produced the lover , close to her heart , fed by her own blood , watered by own needy greedy wanting . |
| 15 | She had wanted to go to bed with Freddie Nash more than anything else in her life . |
| 16 | In a very little , it would be the time when once she had used to sit with Mama … |
| 17 | And as she thought of the good golfing years she had allowed to go to waste , so praying and practice loomed large in the recovery programme she set herself . |
| 18 | The number of times she had had to go to school with no knickers on was nobody 's business , she often told her husband . |
| 19 | Daalny had acted , after all ; she must have taken the second key during Vespers , from the nail where at noon she had watched the porter hang the first one , but she had had to wait for near-darkness before using it . |
| 20 | The passion she had tried to feel for feminism was not enough , it did not give her enough strength to stand up for herself against the demands of these two women who wanted her , needed her and demanded her . |
| 21 | She had tried to fly over experience , to slough off all that unpleasant part of her life as a snake sloughs off its old skin , but always misery reasserted itself . |
| 22 | It was just like last night again , when the mood had changed between them and she had left to go to bed , filled with regrets . |
| 23 | This she did , at which stage she had managed to go without drinking , but had not yet been to see her solicitor . |
| 24 | She gives you a tour of that painting in cheerful detail , noting with satisfaction that she had managed to achieve in part of the backdrop the right kind of ‘ girny ’ blue . |
| 25 | Ronnie had written to me a few months before , saying that she had hesitated to get in touch but wanted me to know how concerned she was about John . |
| 26 | Though , remembering that walk with him , she recalled how happy she had felt , and she wondered if that had been when she had started to fall in love with him . |
| 27 | ‘ Many who had planned to stay at home will now go away , others will feel they can afford a second holiday . ’ |
| 28 | McNair , the elderly gillie who had agreed to live as caretaker in the Earl 's shooting lodge . |
| 29 | The arrangement was for Dorli and Lieserl to be looked after by a young Leeds couple , Theo and Tilly Hall , who had offered to take in refugee children . |
| 30 | But there was nearly always a small group of so-called " mature students ' , who had failed to get to college when they left school ( due to illness , perhaps , or economic circumstances or the disruption caused by the Second World War of 1939–45 ) . |