Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had begun to experience increasing difficulty with reading from about the age of thirteen . |
| 2 | I had begun to desire some balance in my life and after that my socialising was toned down and my private moments stepped up . |
| 3 | I had wanted to spend some time with the Infierno people themselves ; but , caught between two worlds , they had a very understandable fear of their traditional knowledge being ‘ stolen ’ , and did not open up the project to outsiders without good reason . |
| 4 | I 'd been looking forward to seeing you both , and I had wanted to discuss that Unesco thing with you . ’ |
| 5 | I had wanted to help these people and their King . |
| 6 | You would not have been able to take in the words I had planned to say that night , the night of number one hundred and fifty-six . |
| 7 | ‘ I had planned to propose last night , ’ he said , watching her stricken face . |
| 8 | I had hoped to purchase high-ratio Salisbury diffs for a Series III to take back to Australia . |
| 9 | I had applied to continue full-time research following my degree course , but this had been turned down by my chief officers ; however , I had been told that assistance for part-time study would almost certainly be approved in view of the national policy of encouraging officers to extend their educational qualifications . |
| 10 | The fact that I had failed to find any companions did n't help my cause very much . |
| 11 | I had tried to diet many times before . |
| 12 | He watched me , smiling but sharp , and for some reason — for no reason — I was reminded of a time at school when I had tried to make one friend betray another , and failed . |
| 13 | I waited till we heard him on the stairs , then told them how I had offered to drive this run , but now that I was a passenger it would be against the rules . |
| 14 | Though I had forgotten to bring any photographs with me , this one seemed empty . |
| 15 | For a year I had worked to make this creature , but now it looked terrible and frightening . |
| 16 | But by my late teens I had come to find this attitude repellent , and knew that I was never going to fulfil my parents ' expectations . |
| 17 | I had come to dread that word — not that I was n't all in favour of efficiency generally but I did feel that there were times when other criteria applied . |
| 18 | I had had to wait seven years for Evans 's pardon and another seven years for Meehan 's , and , knowing the reluctance of the Home Office even to consider whether a mistake has been made , far less admit it , I had little hopes of any quick remedial action . |
| 19 | Her approach , in common with other innovators , was to get the very best from each and every child , using methods she had devised to achieve this goal . |
| 20 | She had decided to do outdoor work and earn a little money in the harvest . |
| 21 | She had decided to send this man to hell . |
| 22 | She had threatened to refuse this assignment if Mitch was not allowed here , and Felipe de Santis had accepted that . |
| 23 | And when everything at Uppark was complete she continued to use her skills and the workforce she had trained to save other fabrics . |
| 24 | He had been playing alone on the towpath , if anything as purposeless as hurling old beer cans into the canal could be described as playing , and she had paused to say good morning to him . |
| 25 | She had gone to give pregnant niece Dawn Morgan a lift to hospital — and Dawn had just gone into labour . |
| 26 | She had expected to spend that night with Edward and wake up beside him , the left-hand side , that had become a habit and it was a mistake , no doubt , to allow marriage to become a matter of habit , but that did n't prove that she was not a woman . |
| 27 | She had expected to get good advice from Lovat , not a proposal of marriage . |
| 28 | Over the years she had learned to stay two steps ahead of him . |
| 29 | Because of him she had had to waste valuable days sightseeing , all the time aware of him breathing down her neck , and conscious that Lori had an extremely low boredom level . |
| 30 | Miranda could tell that Madame Davenant was not angry that she had had to climb five floors to Miranda 's chambre , la quatorze , on the level just below the mansarde , where Marie-Angèle had her quarters , for the maid looked cheerful as she nodded in the direction of the salle de bains and promised , ‘ Une autre fois . ’ |