Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] [to-vb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These I do not repeat here , but my version of Boulestin 's sweet tomato conserve , which I had intended to include in the same book and which is indeed indexed as appearing in it , somehow got away . |
| 2 | I had never been able to do that , not with such unselfconscious pleasure , perhaps because deep down I had resented his existence which was preventing me doing all the marvellous things I had intended to do in the world . |
| 3 | This time I remembered all the things I had forgotten to say in the railway carriage . |
| 4 | During the summer , and I called into the hospital on several occasions and I was reminded that I had agreed to participate in the ‘ fun run ’ and I decided it would be a good publicity gimmick and improve my chances of sponsorship if I took along and pushed him around the 10 mile course . |
| 5 | I had learned to fly in the Fleet Air Arm in 1940 and immediately after the war I spent nearly two years in South America flying for the Shell company . |
| 6 | A rector was , in her view , part of the traditional and comic cast list she had expected to find in the country , along with the squire and the village idiot . |
| 7 | Flavia was thinking of her essay with a pang , and of the prep she had failed to do in the morning , the morning — could it be ? — of this same unending day . |
| 8 | She had gone through rather a bad patch since she had come to live in the banqueting hall . |
| 9 | She had refused to stay in the vast Sandringham House itself but the Queen offered her nearby Wood Farm . |
| 10 | My only reason for including this story is to record the short but pithy comment of Canada 's leading humorist who , when we had paused to take in the scene , turned to me and said , ‘ I do n't think it 's a bit funny ! ’ |
| 11 | And when , lunch over , they had gone to sit in the garden of the Lur Inn and the Colonel removed his jacket , Elisabeth was equally impressed by the pullover he was wearing . |
| 12 | Representatives of the few people they had come to know in the course of their wanderings round the world were left to clear up . |
| 13 | ‘ There we were thinking how marvellously they had adapted to win in the quagmire at Hong Kong last year and Gala the year before . |
| 14 | With the re-emergence of the UGT from its period of relative inactivity during Francoism ( it had refused to participate in the vertical union system ) , the ideological divisions between the two unions became an important feature of the post-1975 Spanish labour movement . |
| 15 | It would have been otherwise if he had covenanted to paint in the quarter " preceding the expiry or sooner determination of the said term " . |
| 16 | In the earlier years of his reign he had tended to stay in the central area of Francia proper , often at Aachen , his father 's old base , or further west , for instance at Compiègne on the River Oise . |
| 17 | During the war scare he had tried to enlist in the Royal Air Force , giving his age as eighteen , but had been refused . |
| 18 | Mungo closed his eyes , summoning back the image he had tried to capture in the barrow . |
| 19 | This time around Waris Hussein used a full complement of four cameras instead of the two he had opted to use in the pilot , having expressed a preference then to experiment with ‘ moving camera technique ’ . |
| 20 | These days he had trouble recalling the troublesome fragments of his education he had bothered to memorize in the first place ; the names of a few acquaintances were jumbled together with old verb forms and things he thought were childhood haunts turned out to be places he had only just discovered . |
| 21 | He had chosen to remain in the priesthood . |