Example sentences of "had [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | After Millie had turned to run back into the house , Ben said , ‘ So that 's what he wanted . |
| 5 | A mediator from the Catholic church had threatened to pull out of the talks , blaming both sides for intransigence . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Older brothers had offered to help out along the way and — as the Christmas bounty proved — presents had come along and sixpences and treats . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This one , he said , pointing to Bobby , he had had to pick up in the street . |
| 13 | Someone had had to drop out at the last minute and there was an unexpected vacancy to be filled . |
| 14 | The people I had helped to dream down from the heavens . |
| 15 | Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards . |
| 16 | The elephant had been leading a procession down the Chandni Chowk but had halted outside Gunthe Wallah 's and had refused to move on towards the Red Fort , despite the frantic proddings of its mahout , until it was first allowed to consume a box of Gunthe Wallah 's best mithai . |
| 17 | The movement avoided a split with the election of a compromise leadership , consisting of outgoing chair Ivan Drach , the chair of the Rukh political council Mykhailo Horyn , and Vyacheslav Chornovil , after Drach had attempted to lead out of the congress a faction willing to work with the Ukrainian leadership of President Leonid Kravchuk . |
| 18 | Alexandra had been very shy , had wanted to run out to the stables and hide , but she had had to stay , unhappy at the head of the table while all the little girls who knew each other from Christmas parties and dancing classes , from the complicated social traffic among their parents , chattered and giggled among themselves , as if she was n't there . |
| 19 | It must also be admitted that the fact that some of the companies insuring our policy had ceased to pay out in the wake of the LUI failure , also helped our resistance . |
| 20 | An elderly English lady , with a tendency to pre-war propriety , who told me on the Friday that she was afraid it would all be ‘ another load of pretentious American rubbish ’ , said on Sunday that she had learned to open up for the first time in her life . |
| 21 | We come therefore to synthesise the ideas I had tried to put over in the preceding chapters . |
| 22 | She had tried to get out of the car when he was driving and he considered it lucky that they had n't been killed , but as he and I were together more I came to admire her resolution and good sense . |
| 23 | She had meant to walk down to the sea today to greet it on her first Christmas here , her own sea , her own stretch of wild grey winter water . |
| 24 | As a boy , he had liked to scrape around in the fields ; he had eavesdropped when the whereabouts of discoveries were discussed , and walked with the farmers when they ploughed an old olive grove to turn it over to fruit trees . |
| 25 | The Council of the Zoological Society of London had planned to shut down at the end of September . |
| 26 | During our meal the restaurant had begun to fill up with the pre-theatre crowd , Brighton burghers and their wives . |
| 27 | To give an extreme example , fiscal policies designed to increase employment might take effect after a year , when , say , the economy had begun to move out of the recession . |
| 28 | People had begun to file out from the pews . |
| 29 | Remarkably , Pliny slept calmly during the early part of the night , although ashes had begun to pile up outside the house , but he eventually awoke as the situation deteriorated . |
| 30 | While directors like Ken Russell and Nic Roeg carried on along their own idiosyncratic paths , and many of the directors who had flourished in the 1960s packed their bags for the trip to LA , there were no indications that those left behind had begun to face up to the economic realities of British film production , or what would have to be done to patch up the damage done to the craft of filmmaking , more particularly screenwriting , during the dead times of the 1950s and into the 1960s . |