Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Blenkinsop had intended to turn right off the A689 into the Sedgefield access road . |
| 2 | A defence agent said Frost and his friends had intended to move on from the lay-by , opposite Invermoriston Post Office , as soon as they got their Giro cheques . |
| 3 | He had intended to head back to the funicolare station but perhaps he had taken a wrong turning somewhere in his hurry to get away from Maidstone 's apartment . |
| 4 | The conc areas he had arranged conflicted severely with the dispositions of our own Bde , and he was ordered to assemble the whole force in a camp at VIKTRING . |
| 5 | He was taller than she remembered , more powerfully built , the angles of his face even harder and more menacing than she had recalled coming up in the lift . |
| 6 | We had stopped trailing around after the men in the left , contorting ourselves in the hope of receiving some grudging crumbs of approval . |
| 7 | Only stare up at the gaping hole in his cage and feel the terror of the sky beyond and look at where the broken end of the great branch that had fallen spiked out into the wild sky above as if broken part lay about him , its smaller branches and torn bark fretting on the cold wind . |
| 8 | In the end , the big woman with the cherries in her hat had dragged the now screaming child from his mother 's arms , pulling poor Edith along with her for a few steps until she had dropped sobbing on to the linoleum . |
| 9 | The time had come to splash out to the tune of forty quid a head for the eight members of his party who had travelled with him from the Forest of Arden to Sussex by the Sea . |
| 10 | Vincent barely managed to keep his temper in check in the blast of this ‘ raw north wind ’ that had come howling in through the front door . |
| 11 | Three or four knights had come hastening in at the sound of their lord 's voice . |
| 12 | She had come to look forward to the intervals between tenants , for at such times she would sit at the bedroom window that overlooked the street , which sloped swiftly to the main thoroughfare ; and guided by the landmarks of St Dominic 's church and , beyond that , St Ann 's , she could look over the chimney pots and catch a glimpse of the river gleaming between the busy traffic on it . |
| 13 | The pod had come to rest half-way down the side of a splintered ridge of rock . |
| 14 | His eyes had come to rest less on the table and more on her . |
| 15 | She answered Berlin ; it was a city she had come to know well over the years . |
| 16 | When the Gruagach had come storming down from the Northern Wastes and attacked Tara and stolen away the Wolfking 's son , Tara 's heir , the people of the half-world of the forest had vanished , afraid and timid . |
| 17 | When she had visualized standing just inside the cupboard , I asked her how she felt about it ; she replied that , so far , she was feeling quite at ease . |
| 18 | After Millie had turned to run back into the house , Ben said , ‘ So that 's what he wanted . |
| 19 | I was lingering near the assembled bottles , wondering who on earth could have brought the Bourgueil , when I was joined by the man I had seen stepping out of the BMW . |
| 20 | From an early age , his mother and father showed him the illustrated books on the subject which they had brought back from London , and described at length the wonders of the ballets they had seen danced there by the Diaghilev company , ‘ when they were young and in love ’ , as John put it later . |
| 21 | A mediator from the Catholic church had threatened to pull out of the talks , blaming both sides for intransigence . |
| 22 | At one stage , Fields had threatened to pull out of the arrangement altogether and find a new partner , until the CAA made it clear that Fields would not have a licence without Virgin 's involvement . |
| 23 | Then , out of the blue , Simon and Moscato announced after a considered assessment they had decided to opt out of the French national squad 's World Cup preparations . |
| 24 | Sarah told her that John was so discouraged by his failure to find work that he had decided to try elsewhere in the country . |
| 25 | Burton said that he had promised to go back to the Old Vic for £45 a week to do Hamlet , and he was sticking to it . |
| 26 | Older brothers had offered to help out along the way and — as the Christmas bounty proved — presents had come along and sixpences and treats . |
| 27 | Hitherto the older waist-band had tended to slip on to the horse 's neck and either throttle him or prevent him from pulling hard ; hence the slower and less efficient ox had been generally used . |
| 28 | I remembered how in England I had pitied them all tucked away in oblivion : Feathers , the first man of my course to go missing ; Johnny Soames whose aircraft I had watched skidding away from the formation on one of the early daylight raids over northern France . |
| 29 | He had needed to wind down after the spiralling tensions of the day , and once again he felt the company warmth and support that had sustained him through the day . |
| 30 | This one , he said , pointing to Bobby , he had had to pick up in the street . |