Example sentences of "had [verb] [pn reflx] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been dropped near their target , Nofilia airfield , and the following day had hidden themselves to observe the defences . |
| 2 | Civilian paramilitary units operated in several parts of Yugoslavia , notably among the Serbs of Kosovo and in Croatia , where extremists in the ruling Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) had armed themselves to counter the insurgency by armed bands operating in the republic 's Serbian municipalities . |
| 3 | Cathy was pale and drawn and she looked tired-not , he thought , like a woman who , expecting the sack , had found herself owning the business . |
| 4 | Ever since she had held the baby she had found herself treating the doll in the same way . |
| 5 | However , that morning she had found herself preparing the children 's sandwiches for school — as she did each day — by buttering newspaper instead of the bread . |
| 6 | With the income from the three films he had completed in eighteen months , he had stretched himself to buy a house in Beverly Hills . |
| 7 | In that work Tolkien had set himself to write a romance for an audience brought up on novels . |
| 8 | He then declared that he and those with him on the platform had pledged themselves to pay no fines and refused to be bound over , ‘ and we have authorised no one to pay these fines for us . |
| 9 | Moreover since he did not wish to have preying on his mind any malice or grudge by reason of which his father might later be offended , he revealed that he had pledged himself to support the barons of Aquitaine against his brother Richard and said that he had done this because Richard had fortified the castle of Clairvaux though it really belonged to the Angevin patrimony which he should inherit from his father . " |
| 10 | The sea was so cold she had to force herself to take the plunge . |
| 11 | They saw his body in the moat , where he had thrown himself to escape the mob . |
| 12 | In more than two years of living with one band of Semai , my wife and I witnessed only two instances of large-scale co-operative action , one of which I had to organize myself to mobilize a labour force to repair a dangerously deteriorated suspension bridge which nearly everyone in the band used every day , and which was literally on the verge of collapse . |
| 13 | I did n't believe her : my sense of superiority had extended itself to include a conviction of my own immortality . |