Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] [conj] [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wickham said they would know soon enough because he had sent someone to ask Ayling . |
| 2 | Now he knows I am here he may be more careful , or he may act more quickly than he had planned . ’ |
| 3 | I I the way I s I think I think was it Josephine he was married to , then then she would er she would object very strongly if he had a bath before they went to bed together . |
| 4 | For several months the Hong Kong Sevens waited , hoping that the country 's two rugby bodies would unite as quickly as they had in some other sports — most notably cricket . |
| 5 | For a powerful man , he could move very quietly when he had to . |
| 6 | But to be told that he could not make it was to be told that this gift could disappear as unpredictably as it had arrived . |
| 7 | I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet . |
| 8 | What started out as an objective assessment like ‘ That lesson did n't go as well as I had expected ’ gets recast as ‘ I made a mistake ’ which leads to ‘ I 'm a poor teacher ’ and even ‘ I 'm a failure ( as a person ) ’ . |
| 9 | Woodward saw that Duncan would go no farther until he had a satisfactory explanation . |
| 10 | ‘ I know , I know , it 's early days , as you said — but you 're just not the type to let him go this far if you had any serious doubts . ’ |
| 11 | Some of the older ones would get together so that they had ginormous piles of rubbish . |
| 12 | He knew he could get away safely because he had a reading back in London that evening , and it could n't lead to further meetings because he was going away soon . |
| 13 | One third of them also admitted they would drive more carefully if they had to buy their own cars and pay all the running and repair costs . |
| 14 | He thought for a moment that it might be some kind of game , that their running would cease as suddenly as it had begun , that they 'd stand like statues on the sand , waiting for him to catch up with them . |
| 15 | It does n't seem that long since you had him as a puppy |