Example sentences of "had [verb] [to-vb] [pron] in the " in BNC.

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1 Another time , I had arranged to meet him in the Naafi , a popular meeting place on the camp , at 5pm .
2 He had come to question her in the manner of someone who comes to peer at a freak in a sideshow .
3 It changed policy again after leading members of the Save the Narmada Movement had threatened to drown themselves in the rising waters of the Narmada river .
4 The EC Monitor Mission ( ECMM ) had decided to base itself in the RSK town of Knin , having withdrawn from Sarajevo in May .
5 Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place .
6 They had arrived to play us in the Trophy .
7 For a fleeting instant she felt as though she had woken to find herself in the lair of a dangerous wild animal .
8 Norton 's Coin 's participation in the race was something of a mistake , for Sirrell Griffiths had wanted to run him in the Cathcart Challenge Cup on the same day of the Cheltenham meeting , only to discover that the horse was ineligible .
9 For she had had vivid dreams — dreams in which he was dead and she had gone to see him in the T'ang 's Great Hall , laid out in state , clothed from head to foot in the white cloth of death .
10 Mary had begun to visit her regularly on Friday mornings — with Mr Fenton 's express approval and the Christian support of her mother — when she was about fourteen — at about the time her father had begun to use her in the Fish and Budworth had turned up to sketch his mischief .
11 The Profumo affair was merely the focus and catalyst for the coming to a head of that revolution in the mood and character of English life which had begun to show itself in the late summer of 1955 .
12 He had begun to coax her in the direction of her room now , the drinks tray left forgotten on the counter-top , and she went along helplessly , carried by the tide of his will and of her own incurable need to be with him .
13 She had aimed to hit him in the eye , what else ; just back from the V.D. clinic .
14 The food to which Agnes Diggory led her had been welcome , however , and she had chosen to consume it in the friendly housekeeper 's little pantry next to the kitchen , rather than risk encountering Miss Merchiston once again tonight .
15 Liz , at the magic moment , found herself unexpectedly clutching the hot hand of Ivan Warner , which seemed wrong but ordained : she looked for Charles , and saw that the poor man had managed to find himself in the icy palm of Lady Henrietta .
16 Whether this is the true one I would not like to say but in this version the ‘ trains wipe tapes ’ hypothesis was the inspired explanation of a recording engineer who , through an operational error , had failed to record anything in the first place !
17 He also allowed that the used-car business had failed to keep him in the style to which he had grown accustomed and rose to the prospect of a lucrative drug deal like a shark to a bucket of entrails .
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