Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [vb pp] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had hoped to build up a little more dramatic tension before revealing the details of this particular sleight of hand , but yes . |
| 2 | The whole bar was up on its feet to watch even before she had finished laying down the opening phrases ; by the time she was into the full fury of the aria , with its demanding coloratura decorations , its elaborate breathing technique and its famous placing of the pauses , we were all applauding and whistling . |
| 3 | Before she had finished hanging out the clothes , there was a glorious double rainbow across the sky . |
| 4 | When she had finished hanging out the washing , before she went for the weekly shop at SavaCentre , Sara applied her lipstick , and around her throat she squirted the toilet water which she had had for three years and never before used . |
| 5 | She had no idea how he knew Kattina was in police custody , or that she had agreed to take over the job . |
| 6 | The truth of the matter was that even before she had agreed to take over the club she had been plagued more and more by a feeling that she had done all she could do in the music business . |
| 7 | ‘ So Miss Morgan would have got the lion 's share of the other two hundred thousand even if she had agreed to break up the trust ? |
| 8 | Earlier , for brief periods of the day , she had contemplated making up a foursome not unhappily , might have taken risks , might even have ended up in bed with someone , the classic holiday encounter . |
| 9 | It had been painful to watch her struggle for her self-respect , but she had managed to ward off the threatened nervous breakdown . |
| 10 | They had threatened to blow up the plane unless their demands for the release of political prisoners were met , but the deadline of 6pm passed without incident . |
| 11 | The six confessed that they had planned to shoot down a helicopter carrying Lebanese Christian Army leader , Gen. Michel Aoun , on his arrival at Larnaca airport . |
| 12 | He had planned to hold up the cash desk of an Oxford Street store . |
| 13 | MacArthur maintained that the moves he had taken to break up the large banks would prevent a repetition of the devious methods formerly used to provide a subsidy for Japanese textile exports . |
| 14 | Six inches of concrete , luckily not too dense , had been used to top off whatever he had used to fill in the excavation . |
| 15 | He had offered to top up the money he had given her before by another twenty pounds and she had accepted with polite reluctance . |
| 16 | Where the settlor is himself insolvent , the trust is invalid , and creditors can execute against all the settlor 's property including that over which he had purported to set up a trust . |
| 17 | Antrobus considered archaeologists to be another kind of meddling vandal , and he had refused to let in a group from the British Association for the Advancement of Science that had included Lubbock and Pitt-Rivers , and who had wanted to excavate round the stones . |
| 18 | Mick Houghton , who also works for the fashionable label Blast First , was asked why he had agreed to take on The Wedding Present . |
| 19 | If only he had managed to force down a little more dynercaprol and potassium chloride ! |
| 20 | He had failed to win back the support of the MRP . |
| 21 | He had a number of scenes reshot because he did n't like the way he looked in the original scenes , and by the time he had finished hacking up the picture , it was a complete mess . |
| 22 | It was not only because of its convenient position and its many sheltering solitudes that he had chosen to watch out the night here . |
| 23 | On May 9 Albie Sachs , a civil rights lawyer and member of the ANC legal and constitutional affairs committee ( who returned to South Africa on May 4 after 24 years in exile — see also p. 36073 ) , revealed that he had helped to draw up a 1985 code of conduct outlawing torture , but acknowledged that detention camps still existed . |