Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was then able to use this in my Elu96 router along with templates I had made to cut the mitres on both rails and uprights ( the router seems to be the most important part of my kit these days ) . |
| 2 | If I had decided to call the Division again , up on the screen would have gone the sign ’ Division Off ’ and Members would have drifted away . |
| 3 | I desperately wanted to give him hope — by then I had begun reading the ‘ complementary ’ literature and was coming to realise all I might be able to do for myself . |
| 4 | Once I had begun to reap the benefits from my new system , I decided to enlarge on it and make it work even harder for me . |
| 5 | I had begun to believe the Hall quite deserted . ’ |
| 6 | Hazlitt has not been short of biographers , but before reading Jones I never felt I had begun to know the man , or formed any satisfying conception of his obviously contradictory nature . |
| 7 | Having seen taxis north of Adrar , and then a couple of days ago , a convoy which had not so much as a compass , I had begun to think the desert not so terrible after all . |
| 8 | I had wanted to regain the weight in a controlled , steady way , but instead I find myself stuffing wildly ( mostly when I 'm babysitting ) : biscuits , chocolate , great hunks of cheese , cakes , pasties ; and I 'm feeling more and more anxious as the food runs out — I end up eating dog biscuits , and frozen cakes and Angel Delight powder and raw jelly and dry cereal . |
| 9 | I had wanted to see the danse macabre preserved there , once part of the stonework of the cathedral at Nogykanizsa . |
| 10 | I had wanted to enjoy the protection conferred by his proximity , but I was very , very pleased not to be drawn to the attentions of the spooks . |
| 11 | I had wanted to watch the roses lit by sudden light , but they would n't let me . |
| 12 | I had stopped seeing the nightmare shape when I shut my eyes but every so often the pigeon stirred just enough to keep me awake . |
| 13 | There did n't seem to be anything interesting there , but I remembered the lesson of the day before , when I had stopped to sniff the air and everything had seemed fine , then ten minutes later I was wrestling with a kamikaze rabbit , so I trotted down off the side of the dune and down to the line of debris thrown up by the sea . |
| 14 | Lindsey recalls that his first flight in the Corsair was , to say the least , interesting : ‘ On the morning that John and I had arranged to do the conversion , the weather was decidedly bad with poor visibility . |
| 15 | By the time I got up the next morning , I had determined to sell the baker 's shop to the highest bidder unless Charlie Trumper were willing to take on the responsibility himself . |
| 16 | ‘ To tell you the truth , Aycliffe , I was so devilish put out that I had determined to shake the dust of this place from my heels forever ! ’ |
| 17 | At that time I had planned to acquire the Lightning with another well-known operator , who was at that time very active on the warbird scene . |
| 18 | I had planned to spend the day analysing the knock-on effects for the statistical clerks of a three per cent increase in the admin assistants ' salaries . |
| 19 | I had hoped to find the original bill for the chandelier in the Abercorn Papers , but a day 's search for them in the Belfast Record Office revealed nothing : in true British fashion , all feed and stapling bills were meticulously preserved and carefully tied in small bundles , but bills for plate and jewels seem not to have been preserved . |
| 20 | ‘ I had hoped to keep the information from you , at least till the morrow , ’ he said . |
| 21 | It was inevitable that , as I had stood watching the gannets at Bempton , memories of a visit to Grassholm came flooding back . |
| 22 | I should have spoken to Barbara myself and explained to her how strenuously I had endeavoured to talk the doctors out of this unhappy decision . |
| 23 | During my last year at Oxford I had applied to join the Sudan Political Service . |
| 24 | I had gone to visit the RSPB 's osprey reserve at Loch Garten , and had been struck by the symbolism of that site , where the birds flew free and the humans were , in effect , in a cage . |
| 25 | I was sitting in a friend 's garden where I had gone to seek the Lord , and as I was reading the words of Jesus I knew , with a peace and a joy which passed understanding , the call of God . |
| 26 | I had resisted attending the sky burial . |
| 27 | I felt that she had read my mind , that she knew I had contemplated transgressing the roof taboo . |
| 28 | ‘ I had expected to explore the wood for a month . |
| 29 | ‘ I had expected to find the banns posted on my return . ’ |
| 30 | I had tried to ignore the disappearance of my abdominal muscles , the sagging of my pectorals , but it was all coming home to me now . |