Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the very last thing he had expected to discover given McAllister 's fiery and impetuous nature . |
| 2 | In the summer , a painter named Johannes Meintjies had come to visit 71 Bree Street . |
| 3 | Finland on May 6 announced that it had decided to purchase 64 US F/A-18 Hornet interceptor aircraft in preference to ex-Soviet , French or Swedish models to modernize its air force by the end of the century . |
| 4 | The League had decided to keep that Saturday clear to help national coach Andy Roxburgh prepare for the match . |
| 5 | Henry Leland claimed Henry Ford had promised to reimburse all Lincoln 's original creditors and shareholders . |
| 6 | Its Maronite attackers were able to concentrate all their energies upon their last assault against the Palestinians now that the Syrians had arrived to save Christian Lebanon . |
| 7 | Prior to the agreement on the SEA , the EC had attempted to eliminate these NTBs by creating a set of European laws and regulations to govern all aspects of economic activity . |
| 8 | On May 8 the director of operations of the UN 's World Food Programme ( WFP ) , Robert Hauser , had appeared to contradict current UN policy when he said that the food-supply situation in Iraq did not in itself warrant the continuing presence of international relief agencies ; since food rationing was relatively efficient , he said , claims of widespread malnutrition were exaggerated . |
| 9 | I 'd been looking forward to seeing you both , and I had wanted to discuss that Unesco thing with you . ’ |
| 10 | I had hoped to purchase high-ratio Salisbury diffs for a Series III to take back to Australia . |
| 11 | The chateau was like many of its kind , stained by war here and there when the English ( or the Goddamns , as the French call us ) had tried to conquer Northern France , nothing remarkable . |
| 12 | Joseph had planned to sell Sabine Jourdain 's work for her and cut out Maurin . |
| 13 | His own name had been inspired by a brief interlude at Preston station in Lancashire where his parents had changed trains one Sunday afternoon on their way to Blackpool for their honeymoon . |
| 14 | The sixth came in the 74th minute with Rush pouncing to punish Christophi again after he had failed to hold another Jamie Redknapp shot . |