Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having seen Mr Jeffreys and diagnosed an acute and fairly painful dose of tonsillitis , she had intended going straight back to her cabin , instead of which , without even being aware of it , she had walked in the opposite direction . |
| 2 | He had stopped thinking lewd thoughts ; his mind was concentrated on what might be a perfect opportunity to obey Viktor Rakovsky 's order . |
| 3 | But my hand had stopped bleeding some time ago and I could not reasonably pretend that I was wounded . |
| 4 | They had stopped to get some fruit for her , and the stall-holder had insisted that it was a gift , refusing Michael 's money as if it was the norm to give his produce away for free . |
| 5 | She could n't think ; her mind had stopped doing that sort of thing ; she could only wait till her arms and legs felt like moving again . |
| 6 | In view of the number of working and pleasure horses in the kingdom , when the phrase ‘ horsepower ’ meant literally just that , and the concentration of dairy cows around and even within the metropolis , and also the growing number of pets in middle-class households , it is strange that the demands of so many animal owners , some wealthy or even extremely rich , had not led to the development of a proper profession competent to deal with animal diseases , just as the professions of physician , surgeon and apothecary had burgeoned to meet public demand at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries . |
| 7 | Peering up , Horowitz saw the narrow ‘ blinds ’ had swivelled to become mere rims . |
| 8 | She had expected to spend that night with Edward and wake up beside him , the left-hand side , that had become a habit and it was a mistake , no doubt , to allow marriage to become a matter of habit , but that did n't prove that she was not a woman . |
| 9 | All told , BT had expected to invest some $100m in the three ventures . |
| 10 | It was the very last thing he had expected to discover given McAllister 's fiery and impetuous nature . |
| 11 | She had expected to get good advice from Lovat , not a proposal of marriage . |
| 12 | For the present , it may simply be observed that Szekeres and Sbytov had omitted to include these cases . |
| 13 | In the summer , a painter named Johannes Meintjies had come to visit 71 Bree Street . |
| 14 | He had come to entertain serious doubts about it himself . |
| 15 | It had come to represent important sections of socialized nations , mass societies , and in this responsible role social democrats were required to do their patriotic duty when war threatened ‘ their ’ ruling order . |
| 16 | This is slightly curious , because a ‘ law ’ in science had come to mean some relationship which had been derived from experiment . |
| 17 | And they had come to feel that pulse . |
| 18 | She had come to recognize that silence , to smell it , almost . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Such a miracle would have dwarfed all miracles recorded in the Bible , and Frederick Temple , who in 1896 became Archbishop of Canterbury , pointed out in his Bampton Lecture of 1884 that neither Darwin nor Huxley had claimed to know how life had come to animate inert matter . |
| 21 | The aim appears to have been two-fold : to reassert the authority of the crown to appoint to military commands and , by a ruthless dismissal of the majority of commanders who had come to assume such commands , to make the army once more an efficient weapon of state in royal hands . |
| 22 | Although some Labour politicians clung to the belief that peace could be maintained , most had come to accept that war was inevitable by 1936 , confirmed in their opinion by the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War . |
| 23 | Some Labour politicians continued to cling to their previous peace strategies but by the late 1930s the majority had come to accept that war was inevitable — a view confirmed by the events in Czechoslovakia , Austria and Poland which preceded the outbreak of the European war . |
| 24 | His team , said Rowell , had come to accept that rucking and raking were part of New Zealand rugby . |
| 25 | Over thirteen years , since he had taken over from the retiring senior partner to whom Francis Sutherland originally brought the affairs of Sleet , David Rosen and Delia Sutherland had come to know each other well enough to do without greetings ; they liked it that way . |
| 26 | By 1990 Baghdad had come to perceive these calculations as imperilled by two GCC states , Kuwait and the UAE . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He admitted the Council had begun slowly , but said that was inevitable , and that bishops would work better now they had come to understand different points of view . |
| 29 | Though I had forgotten to bring any photographs with me , this one seemed empty . |
| 30 | To the dismay of radical reformers , the congress had voted to have this presidium , i.e. the senior party leadership , elected by the supreme council rather than by the full congress . ) |