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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Peering up , Horowitz saw the narrow ‘ blinds ’ had swivelled to become mere rims . |
| 5 | It was the very last thing he had expected to discover given McAllister 's fiery and impetuous nature . |
| 6 | She had expected to get good advice from Lovat , not a proposal of marriage . |
| 7 | He had come to entertain serious doubts about it himself . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Over the years , several people had reported hearing strange sounds emanating from it . |
| 12 | Conservatives who had claimed to prefer contributory pensions in 1908 faced outraged complaints from their constituents about the growth of bureaucracy and the cost to employers . |
| 13 | I had applied to continue full-time research following my degree course , but this had been turned down by my chief officers ; however , I had been told that assistance for part-time study would almost certainly be approved in view of the national policy of encouraging officers to extend their educational qualifications . |
| 14 | He had turned captured Russian officers and allowed them to ‘ escape ’ and make their way back to Russia where they became his agents . |
| 15 | The Japanese , despite all pretences , had sought to replace European imperialism with their own , but their rhetoric had introduced the concept that total independence was an imminent possibility . |
| 16 | Although the investigation was to cover the period from 1980 onwards , most of the allegations related to the so-called " W. A. Inc. " period from 1987 to 1989 , when ALP state governments led successively by Brian Burke and Peter Dowding had sought to promote economic development through close links with local entrepreneurs . |
| 17 | The workers would rather stick to the status quo but know that an industrial tribunal would rule that the employer was forced to make the changes for supposedly sound economic reasons , and moreover had sought to agree financial compensation . |
| 18 | For example in the case of the airline employees the revenue had sought to tax concessionary travel on the average cost basis but their claim had failed before the commissioners and they had not persisted in that claim . |
| 19 | Until the August Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the ensuing Gulf crisis , the government had sought to reduce military expenditure in accordance with increasing congressional demands for an acknowledgement of the diminishing threat presented by the Soviet Union and east European countries [ see pp. 37646-47 ] . |
| 20 | While the report recognized that some reform-minded governments had sought to correct recent abuses of human rights , others such as India emerged as violators with up to 25,000 political prisoners , many of whom were routinely tortured , some dying , in police custody . |
| 21 | Margaret Thatcher had sought to have new laws on the statute book this autumn , but the Government is now more likely to publish a consultative Green Paper towards the end of the year . |
| 22 | The Indian government had sought to maintain good relations with China by not condemning the crushing of the June pro-democracy demonstrations [ see pp. 36720-22 ] . |
| 23 | It was Scots who had invented the steam engine , tarmacadam , the telephone , the Dunlop tyre , chloroform , Listerine , penicillin , television ; Scots who had risen to command foreign armies and navies and whose courage as kilted soldiers in the First World War had led the Germans to dub them ‘ the ladies from hell ’ ; Scots , of whom one had helped to found the Bank of England , who had made Edinburgh into one of the great financial centres of Europe ; Scots who had provided Westminster with more than her share of British Prime Ministers ; Scots who with only a tenth of the population of Britain , had yet supplied England with one fifth of her professional classes . |
| 24 | Scientists at the University of East Anglia have discovered the cause of ‘ watermark disease ’ , which had threatened to destroy English willow trees . |
| 25 | China , in turn , had threatened to impose retaliatory tariffs on imports from the USA , and negotiators had failed to break the impasse in September [ see p. 39095 ] . |
| 26 | Firstly , on 13 April 1960 the House of Commons was told that the Macmillan Cabinet had decided to cancel Blue Streak ; instead the Skybolt air-launched missile ( designed to extend the life and range of the V-bombers ) would be purchased from the USA . |
| 27 | Israel Broadcasting Authority announced on April 22 that Nigeria had decided to re-establish diplomatic relations . |
| 28 | Le Monde reported on April 26 that the government had decided to reverse previous government policy and for the first time to pay 6,200,000 marks to an Israeli foundation for holocaust survivors . |
| 29 | She had decided to do outdoor work and earn a little money in the harvest . |
| 30 | Certainly , when asked directly why they had decided to take early retirement , it was the most frequently mentioned reason by those concerned . |