Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had intended to put in an hour 's fishing but there was an impatience which he could not appease by the sport and so he turned aside into the fields which took him across towards Portinscale . |
| 2 | The doctor had intended to reciprocate with a copy of the Dictionary ( ‘ I know not whether anything would be more acceptable to a botanist ) , but on finding it out of print , sent a copy of the Abridgement ‘ not long since published ’ ( fifth edition , 1767 ) . |
| 3 | She had intended to stay for a weekend . |
| 4 | The result forced the government to freeze the sale of 51 per cent of the shares of the state telecommunications body Antel , which it had intended to offer to a foreign company for a sum of around US$500,000,000 . |
| 5 | There was indeed a steady brain drain ; and some , like Lieberich , had intended to come for a visit rather than to stay permanently . |
| 6 | They had arranged to meet at a pub in Soho , not far from Helen 's flat . |
| 7 | You 'll find in our newspapers many signs of a extraordinary mental instability leading to terrible deeds ( that theological student who killed a girl he had arranged to meet in a shed , and who was arrested a hour later eating his breakfast — and so on ) . |
| 8 | Norman , however , recollects that at first Minton did not take it very seriously ; but one evening , when the two men had arranged to meet in a pub before going to the opera , Norman arrived late , having spent the afternoon with Henrietta , and realised on seeing Minton that he had begun to feel left out . |
| 9 | Oliver said that could have been easily accomplished by telling Shildon where they really were and if it were Shildon she had heard going through a desk in the typists ' room he must already have found out . |
| 10 | Now suddenly she could feel the pleasure such imaginings had aroused uncurling in a warm spiral in the pit of her stomach . |
| 11 | She had stopped to drink from a can on the way up , caring little now for what it might be doing to her . |
| 12 | The nearest he had ever approached to any hint of levity was when he had stopped frowning for an instant the day that news had reached him of the death of Prince Charles Edward Stuart in Rome . |
| 13 | The father went on : ‘ I believe she said he had stopped breathing for a couple of seconds , and if we had n't had him at the hospital when it happened we would have more than likely lost him . ’ |
| 14 | It was as if , thought the queen-dowager fancifully , the world had stopped turning for a few moments , immobilised by the enormity of her action . |
| 15 | Newman had stopped walking for a few moments , his mind racing . |
| 16 | We had resolved to press for a route which would take the march into the walled centre of the city and expected opposition from the moderate members of the CRA . |
| 17 | And now that Lucy had resolved to stay for a few days , she decided to tell her aunt to expect her when she saw her . |
| 18 | And there , instead of the omelette and the glass of wine which we had expected to swallow in a nervous hurry , we found the Restaurant La Camarguaise serving a well-chosen and properly cooked and comforting meal in a clean and high-ceilinged dining-room . |
| 19 | Several respondents commented that both foster parents and children had enjoyed participating in an exercise which provided them with concrete proof of achievements and which sought to monitor progress systematically . |
| 20 | It was as if she had let go of a great burden . |
| 21 | Sampson , like many others , had come looking for a kill before the numbers fell . |
| 22 | Simone was a wealthy French Canadian girl who had come to live with an aunt in Paris . |
| 23 | Melanie had been told they had come to live in a great city but found herself again in a village , a grey one . |
| 24 | Half by desipience , half by proclivity , he had come to live in a world where the only significant leisure activities were coupling and consuming . |
| 25 | This was the first occasion when I experienced the disillusion of actually seeing a place I had come to love through a poem — that had been , in Drinkwater 's phrase , ‘ lissom in a dream ’ . |
| 26 | But he said Cardow ‘ had come armed with a lethal weapon and used it to penetrate the deceased 's body nine times . ’ |
| 27 | It was certainly not what undergraduates at Oxford had come to expect from a lecturer . |
| 28 | Englishness , as a sense of racial or spiritual identity , had come to function as a stabilizing force within the field of professional English studies , rather than providing the authority for a programme of cultural intervention . |
| 29 | He had come equipped with a bottle of white wine , pâté , French bread and fruit . |
| 30 | On replying : ‘ Yes , ’ he was reminded that the end of the tax year was approaching and asked if he had considered investing in a pension . |