Example sentences of "had [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside the study door Murray strode forward without a word and Richard , bewildered , had to trot to keep up with him . |
| 2 | Apart from toys , walking-sticks , postcards and other such tourist necessities , he was also hoping to sell antiquités and the old things he had gathered lay about in an indescribable miscellany . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The pilot of a Rallye had intended to take off from one field and land in another to pick up two passengers for local flying . |
| 5 | Now in January 1979 , as he fled Teheran for the second time in his life , the Shah had intended to fly on to America after just a few day in Egypt . |
| 6 | Cannon , 39 , had intended to play on for one more season , but he has a back injury that may require surgery . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I had arranged to go out in a crab boat to get JTR 's coastal sketches . |
| 9 | I had also discovered that there would be little , if any , use for a car on Moila , so both my brother and I had arranged to travel up by train . |
| 10 | Here a thriving brewing quarter had developed made up of alewife , innkeeper and alehouse brewers . |
| 11 | He was taller than she remembered , more powerfully built , the angles of his face even harder and more menacing than she had recalled coming up in the lift . |
| 12 | I went on to say to him that I wished to make it clear that my disquiet did not relate to any particular name , but if in fact the names that I had heard turned out to be a correct report , and he published the List , the List would support legitimate criticism . |
| 13 | We had stopped trailing around after the men in the left , contorting ourselves in the hope of receiving some grudging crumbs of approval . |
| 14 | Guido had stopped to gaze down at her . |
| 15 | Only stare up at the gaping hole in his cage and feel the terror of the sky beyond and look at where the broken end of the great branch that had fallen spiked out into the wild sky above as if broken part lay about him , its smaller branches and torn bark fretting on the cold wind . |
| 16 | In the end , the big woman with the cherries in her hat had dragged the now screaming child from his mother 's arms , pulling poor Edith along with her for a few steps until she had dropped sobbing on to the linoleum . |
| 17 | ‘ They had to come streaming out of the forests and down to the Bright Palace , in answer to the summons of their Lords … ’ |
| 18 | Do n't forget last Christmas when you forgot your mother 's and we had to come dashing back for it , and it snowing like blazes . |
| 19 | He 'd met her on the beach walking with a dog , a wire-haired terrier called Dolly which had come sniffing up to him . |
| 20 | It felt as if my whole world had come crashing down on me . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Vincent barely managed to keep his temper in check in the blast of this ‘ raw north wind ’ that had come howling in through the front door . |
| 23 | Three or four knights had come hastening in at the sound of their lord 's voice . |
| 24 | She had felt most wonderfully the power surging up behind her eyes gushing like a warm fluid inside her skull , and her eyes had become scorching hot , hotter than ever before , and things had come bursting out of her eye-sockets and then the piece of chalk had lifted itself up and had begun to write . |
| 25 | When the Gruagach had come storming down from the Northern Wastes and attacked Tara and stolen away the Wolfking 's son , Tara 's heir , the people of the half-world of the forest had vanished , afraid and timid . |
| 26 | Pain had come to stretch out beside him . |
| 27 | After Millie had turned to run back into the house , Ben said , ‘ So that 's what he wanted . |
| 28 | I was lingering near the assembled bottles , wondering who on earth could have brought the Bourgueil , when I was joined by the man I had seen stepping out of the BMW . |
| 29 | Sand was cleaner than water , the desert dead cleaner than the drowned dishevelled things which I had seen thrown up on shores . |
| 30 | She stood for a long time , trying to make sense of her feelings , the words he had said tumbling around in her brain . |