Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He avoided those parts of Paris where revellers had gathered to celebrate the New Year out of doors with drink and dancing . |
| 2 | It was with Rohde that Nietzsche had intended to spend the forthcoming year in Paris on what might have amounted to a non-classical refresher course . |
| 3 | Gould 's plans to finish the work himself , in which Lear originally had intended to include every known member of the parrot genus , never materialised . |
| 4 | The authority had intended to publish a full summary of its findings but was prevented from doing so by the DPP who felt that it would prejudice the trials of the three officers . |
| 5 | The DUP and Vanguard had intended to boycott the local elections , saving their effort for the more important Assembly elections , but activists in both parties thought that the earlier contest should be fought , if only to make use of the free publicity that would be created and to have the advantages of a trial run and an early opportunity to canvass for the more important second elections . |
| 6 | ‘ I had intended to become an Anglican priest but I saw more dark than light . |
| 7 | ‘ I had intended to become an Anglican priest , but I saw more dark than light . |
| 8 | Wigan had intended to spring the former Great Britain captain on an unsuspecting St Helens , their arch-rivals , on Boxing Day . |
| 9 | Asked whether he thought Mr McNeill had intended to make a racist comment , Mr Maan said that after listening to him he felt it had been an error of judgment and that Mr McNeill had not meant to offend anybody . |
| 10 | Asked whether he thought Mr McNeill had intended to make a racist comment , Mr Maan said that after listening to him he felt it had been an error of judgment and that Mr McNeill had not meant to offend anybody . |
| 11 | This evidence fits statements from Dennis Johnson , who had arranged to meet the suspected bombers around midday at 17 Campbell Road to hand over the keys to the holiday home . |
| 12 | Here the last of the French had regrouped to make a final stand before the inevitable retreat . |
| 13 | In T. R. Fyvel 's The Insecure Offenders , which first appeared in 1961 and which represented the most systematic and unsensationalised attempt to come to terms with the youth problem , the argument pivoted upon the assumption that the impact of ‘ affluence ’ had conspired to produce a novel disorientation among the nation 's youth . |
| 14 | Pravda reported that most of the ‘ thousands ’ of letters it had received asked the simple question : ‘ When is the war going to end ? ’ |
| 15 | It was not so warm today , so Edith had stopped eyeing the bathing machines wistfully and wondering if she dared . |
| 16 | I suggested that the evidence seemed , in the context of language as rescue , to promise a whole new set of preoccupations , to a point where even those undertakings Stephen had given to rework the stiff clay of his race , even these can seem unduly influenced by his still being among them . |
| 17 | In Mexico in the early 1980s these networks had joined to form the National Council of Popular Urban Movements , with their main demand being that every poor family had a right to a piece of land for a dwelling ( Cockroft 1983 ) . |
| 18 | All EC governments had undertaken to give the European Commission , by April 1 , detailed plans for achieving the EC 's target date for stabilising carbon dioxide emissions : by the year 2005 for us , and 2000 for the rest of them . |
| 19 | First reports of an agreement between the Fatah , the core group of the PLO , and the Islamic organization Hamas , originated from a leaflet distributed in the West Bank and Gaza on June 7 , which announced that the two groups had resolved to form a joint steering committee . |
| 20 | Baker , whose key tasks in the State Department had included supervising the Middle East peace process , was succeeded in an acting capacity by his deputy , Lawrence Eagleburger . |
| 21 | By then our approaching orgasms had synchronized to form a freak wave of emotion which threatened to wipe our personalities clean . |
| 22 | Mercury had expected to provide a non-profit service with Cable and Wireless like its morale-booster during the Gulf war . |
| 23 | He had expected to have a little chat with his boy , but the headmaster had explained that he had been put to bed early because he had an important French test the next day . |
| 24 | It soon became clear that he had enjoyed having a free hand with Frank . |
| 25 | He realised , with a thrill of annoyance at himself , that in his haste — his weary haste — to get to the hearing that morning , he had omitted to set the second lock with its automatic alarm connection . |
| 26 | Camilo Gonzalez Pozo was appointed as the new Health Minister on Oct. 26 to replace Antonio Navarro Wolff who had resigned to head the left-wing April 19 Movement ( M-19 ) list of candidates for the new 70-seat Constituent Assembly due to be elected in December [ see p. 37650 ] . |
| 27 | The code of military behaviour had come to permeate the whole world of knightly behaviour , not just the field of battle . |
| 28 | He added that holding the hostages had " given a great service to the cause of peace " but that the time had come to take a final decision on this " humanitarian issue " . |
| 29 | Its end was marked by the instability of the dollar and the end of US financial domination , and much of the chaos of this period was attributable to the fact that no other country had come to take a hegemonic role . |
| 30 | " I never believed such stupidity could exist , " the Collector said to McNab , for whom he had come to entertain a great respect . |