Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then I started to wonder if what I had seen had some connection with the secret telephone calls Jean-Claude made , and the evenings he spent apart from me with nameless friends . |
| 2 | I felt tempted to tell him that I had begun to glimpse some of the mystery behind Selkirk 's verses but my anger kept me silent . |
| 3 | I had begun to desire some balance in my life and after that my socialising was toned down and my private moments stepped up . |
| 4 | I had wanted to spend some time with the Infierno people themselves ; but , caught between two worlds , they had a very understandable fear of their traditional knowledge being ‘ stolen ’ , and did not open up the project to outsiders without good reason . |
| 5 | I 'd been looking forward to seeing you both , and I had wanted to discuss that Unesco thing with you . ’ |
| 6 | I had wanted to help these people and their King . |
| 7 | Above all other expeditions I had wanted to complete this one — to follow in the footsteps of Jean-Claude and his beloved sister , and regain their paradise . |
| 8 | You would not have been able to take in the words I had planned to say that night , the night of number one hundred and fifty-six . |
| 9 | I had hoped to enclose some of her photographs but the collapse of the Serbian postal system prevented me . |
| 10 | Well I ca came home , I had Derek 's overalls in the the sink , they need washing on their own , and I said to Cla , so I had to go shopping this morning because Claire only worked all day yesterday so she |
| 11 | He says , you know when I came to this house I had to have split all my furniture into little bits so I could get it up the stairs . |
| 12 | The fact that I had failed to find any companions did n't help my cause very much . |
| 13 | I had tried to diet many times before . |
| 14 | If I had tried to impose either of the above on another class I doubt the drama would work . |
| 15 | I had offered to leave most of my collection , comprising the best part , in the USSR , and had simultaneously asked if they would let me take part of it with me . |
| 16 | I waited till we heard him on the stairs , then told them how I had offered to drive this run , but now that I was a passenger it would be against the rules . |
| 17 | I had forgotten to lock that . |
| 18 | I told her to make up a list of the contents now for her deposition the next day as I had forgotten to mention much of what was in my bag . |
| 19 | Though I had forgotten to bring any photographs with me , this one seemed empty . |
| 20 | And I had enjoyed buying all those nice new clothes ! |
| 21 | For a year I had worked to make this creature , but now it looked terrible and frightening . |
| 22 | It was only long after her death that I realized how much anger lay under my acceptance of that responsibility and how much energy I had used holding that down . |
| 23 | Afterwards I could n't believe I had managed to say this ; I could n't believe that I 'd had the intelligence , the wit , the inspiration to come up with this perfect reply . |
| 24 | If I had chosen to keep any of the more sensitive invertebrates I would not consider less than a 30 gallon capacity system . |
| 25 | But by my late teens I had come to find this attitude repellent , and knew that I was never going to fulfil my parents ' expectations . |
| 26 | I had come to dread that word — not that I was n't all in favour of efficiency generally but I did feel that there were times when other criteria applied . |
| 27 | I had learnt to love these good people and I could not wait another day to introduce myself . |
| 28 | ( Oh , yes , I had learnt to play this whilst spending a few months in a rotting gaol due to one of the many misunderstandings which plagued my life . ) |
| 29 | A disaster as contacts list is all fax numbers , telephone numbers and postcodes and therefore very fiddly to do , as I had had to do all the alphabetising manually which made it even slower . |
| 30 | The party , which had failed to gain any seats in the June federal and republican elections , had been riven by policy disagreements for some time and was reputedly heavily indebted . |