Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [verb] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | She described a strategy she had developed to deal with this : |
| 2 | Nevertheless , now that he had come to live in this new house he was aware that he would probably be an object of interest to his neighbours . |
| 3 | Soon it began to create the steady whine that she had come to associate with this strange instrument . |
| 4 | But I 'd never thought of us as really having to worry about money that much ; certainly I was used to getting more or less what I wanted and had come to think of this virtually as a right , the way only children are apt to if their parents are anything other than actively hostile to them . |
| 5 | The following day , Jan. 14 , however , State Department spokesperson Margaret Tutweiler described as a " definite change of position " the strict neutrality the US administration had decided to adopt on this question . |
| 6 | It had got rid of this , the old order and new power relations had been established and so it should n't be regarded so much as an economic failure but as a profound political and social reform , which is an important step towards the Party 's ultimate aim of communism , and going back to the beginning of my paper that how that they had always seen industrialization as a means to an end and that how that socialism and ultimately communism could only be achieved through stages and so that , although it was an economic failure , it was a sort of a social |
| 7 | I knew both of them very well from my Lincoln days and had agreed to lecture at this school . |
| 8 | She knew finally why she had stayed to suffer in this way , so she could explain to him and he would see . |
| 9 | At Ellon , where the modern road forks right over the bridge on the A92 , and a pretty walk runs along by the river Ythan , the landlady of an inn where they breakfasted wished she had remembered to show to this great doctor ( of whom they had heard ) a child of hers with a chronic lump in his throat . |
| 10 | He points out that in 1960 , married black women could have expected to have 3.49 children ; if they had continued to reproduce at this rate , the out-of-wedlock rate among black women would have increased from 23% in 1960 to just 29% in 1987 , and gone almost unnoticed . |
| 11 | Er three thousand er three hundred is what er we had budgeted to make by this time . |
| 12 | Protestant Unionists had begun to respond to this threat to their supremacy by organising a private army , the Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ) , said to have had the backing of the Conservative Party and the British military establishment . |
| 13 | I was going out of the home more often and people had begun to comment on this . |
| 14 | For reasons now totally unknown , people in the past had chosen to travel to this field to weigh various substances . |
| 15 | It may have been dropped during the run-in to opening in 1692 , to spare the first-night audience too long a wait for the music they had paid to hear in this long-expected opera ; for it can perfectly well be done without . |
| 16 | While expressing disappointment that the conference had failed to agree to this , they acknowledged that progress towards this goal had been achieved . |
| 17 | This time , Ridley 's decision was quashed ; the three Appeal Judges agreed that if a minister departed from a clearly stated policy he had to explain why — something Ridley had failed to do in this case . |