Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had intended to put in an hour 's fishing but there was an impatience which he could not appease by the sport and so he turned aside into the fields which took him across towards Portinscale . |
| 2 | The doctor had intended to reciprocate with a copy of the Dictionary ( ‘ I know not whether anything would be more acceptable to a botanist ) , but on finding it out of print , sent a copy of the Abridgement ‘ not long since published ’ ( fifth edition , 1767 ) . |
| 3 | She had intended to stay for a weekend . |
| 4 | There was indeed a steady brain drain ; and some , like Lieberich , had intended to come for a visit rather than to stay permanently . |
| 5 | They had arranged to meet at a pub in Soho , not far from Helen 's flat . |
| 6 | You 'll find in our newspapers many signs of a extraordinary mental instability leading to terrible deeds ( that theological student who killed a girl he had arranged to meet in a shed , and who was arrested a hour later eating his breakfast — and so on ) . |
| 7 | Norman , however , recollects that at first Minton did not take it very seriously ; but one evening , when the two men had arranged to meet in a pub before going to the opera , Norman arrived late , having spent the afternoon with Henrietta , and realised on seeing Minton that he had begun to feel left out . |
| 8 | Oliver said that could have been easily accomplished by telling Shildon where they really were and if it were Shildon she had heard going through a desk in the typists ' room he must already have found out . |
| 9 | She had stopped to drink from a can on the way up , caring little now for what it might be doing to her . |
| 10 | The nearest he had ever approached to any hint of levity was when he had stopped frowning for an instant the day that news had reached him of the death of Prince Charles Edward Stuart in Rome . |
| 11 | The father went on : ‘ I believe she said he had stopped breathing for a couple of seconds , and if we had n't had him at the hospital when it happened we would have more than likely lost him . ’ |
| 12 | We had resolved to press for a route which would take the march into the walled centre of the city and expected opposition from the moderate members of the CRA . |
| 13 | Several respondents commented that both foster parents and children had enjoyed participating in an exercise which provided them with concrete proof of achievements and which sought to monitor progress systematically . |
| 14 | Sampson , like many others , had come looking for a kill before the numbers fell . |
| 15 | Simone was a wealthy French Canadian girl who had come to live with an aunt in Paris . |
| 16 | Half by desipience , half by proclivity , he had come to live in a world where the only significant leisure activities were coupling and consuming . |
| 17 | This was the first occasion when I experienced the disillusion of actually seeing a place I had come to love through a poem — that had been , in Drinkwater 's phrase , ‘ lissom in a dream ’ . |
| 18 | It was certainly not what undergraduates at Oxford had come to expect from a lecturer . |
| 19 | He had come equipped with a bottle of white wine , pâté , French bread and fruit . |
| 20 | On replying : ‘ Yes , ’ he was reminded that the end of the tax year was approaching and asked if he had considered investing in a pension . |
| 21 | He opened the back door and eyed the sagging clothesline from which the three garments Cullam had named hung between a row of napkins . |
| 22 | But whereas before he had seen Scouting as a gateway of opportunity to the big time , 20 years on , the movement seemed narrow and provincial somehow , more concerned with preserving an America that was fast slipping away , if it had ever truly existed , than with helping to shape the country 's youth to face an uncertain future . |
| 23 | The rebels also captured the Boulogne tank factory on the outskirts of the city , killing three civilians when a tank they had commandeered collided with a bus . |
| 24 | Indeed , it is suggested that the very speed with which the population had grown acted as a disincentive to established large factories using the latest technology . |
| 25 | Larne boss Gary Erwin had threatened to quit after a midweek Irish Cup exit to Cliftonville . |
| 26 | By the time Penry Vaughan came downstairs again she was deep in the adventures of a lady who had decided to dress as a boy to search for her lost crusading husband . |
| 27 | Evidently he had decided to finish on a note of grave and reproachful dignity . |
| 28 | They had decided to move to an apartment opposite Central Park because Karina had been molested in Washington Square Park . |
| 29 | When she had decided to go after a job with children , the best she had hoped for was a mother's-help place ; she was n't trained as a nanny or anything like that . |
| 30 | I had decided to enter for a competition for British crime writers , run a good many years ago by Ellery Queen 's Mystery Magazine . |