Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But my hand had stopped bleeding some time ago and I could not reasonably pretend that I was wounded . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | All told , BT had expected to invest some $100m in the three ventures . |
| 4 | This is slightly curious , because a ‘ law ’ in science had come to mean some relationship which had been derived from experiment . |
| 5 | Previously , the 1969 and 1977 NOP surveys had broached this problem , with a question asking people whether they had considered using some form of credit but had not actually done so — and exploring their reasons . |
| 6 | And then I started to wonder if what I had seen had some connection with the secret telephone calls Jean-Claude made , and the evenings he spent apart from me with nameless friends . |
| 7 | The therapist encouraged Tony to look back at what had and had not changed , and stressed the efforts Tony had made to bring some structure and pleasure to his weekly routine , and to pursue his search for a job . |
| 8 | And he would have to tell Ezzie all about it , every detail , how one recess long ago the boys had decided to put some girls in the school trash cans . |
| 9 | Dr Neil had been busy with a small epidemic of low fever which had fortunately missed Vetch Street , and Matey had decided to do some summer cleaning , spring cleaning having been missed out , due to the deficiencies of Sally-Anne 's predecessor . |
| 10 | He seemed more brusque and hostile than on the previous day , a man whose nerves were beginning to fray , a man on whom the pressure was mounting and who had decided to exert some pressure of his own . |
| 11 | He wished he had thought to forge some names on them . |
| 12 | Daddy , she said , had had to spring some people ori them for dinner , and she was out of some basics . |
| 13 | Ukraine , Moldova , Byelarus , Georgia , Azerbaijan and Armenia had refused to supply conscripts to forces outside their territory ; the Central Asian states , and some republics and regions within Russia , had agreed to submit some conscripts to CIS strategic forces . |
| 14 | ( It was reported in June 1989 that Spain and France had agreed to abolish some customs and police controls on border roads in the Pyrenees . ) |
| 15 | Then she had sworn to find some way to fight injustice and make sure that no one else suffered the way he had done . |
| 16 | Another and equally disconcerting presence had materialized there — one which she had attempted to diminish some time ago and send packing from her thoughts . |
| 17 | Magistrates in Bootle heard that library staff had attempted to retrieve some books for more than a year . |
| 18 | I had wanted to spend some time with the Infierno people themselves ; but , caught between two worlds , they had a very understandable fear of their traditional knowledge being ‘ stolen ’ , and did not open up the project to outsiders without good reason . |
| 19 | The FDIC action came after worried investors had rushed to withdraw some $1,000 million of their savings , leaving the bank insolvent . |
| 20 | The thing is , I ca n't do the environment , well it 's not that I ca n't do it when I was talking to er to the tuto the form tutors yesterday er they 're biggest keen I think Catherine had happened to notice some work that Sandra had done that she found er , interesting enough and where the kids should be knowing about , it was about banking how to sign a cheque , how to look after finances erm you know , do I have to buy a pair of trainers because it 's got Reebok on them , this sort of thing . |
| 21 | Even in the twenty minutes it had taken to get some nourishment , the light had faded and the dull day was darkening into a cold night ; the beginnings of a frost crackled under their feet as they walked briskly along the embankment . |
| 22 | A previous user of the review machine had tried to send some faxes which never made it down the wire . |
| 23 | He had begun to paint some portraits with one eye ‘ blind ’ , the other seeing . |
| 24 | After research had begun to throw some light on to the physics of plasmas , invention gave way to a more scientific approach . |
| 25 | I had begun to desire some balance in my life and after that my socialising was toned down and my private moments stepped up . |
| 26 | Back at the rendezvous Stirling felt better after the usual tea laced with rum and was pleased that at last his team had managed to destroy some aircraft . |
| 27 | He was merely taunting in his usual manner and she was quite pleased with herself that she had managed to retain some control when he 'd kissed her . |
| 28 | In 1926 breeders had managed to set some standards and formed a society , opening a herdbook for the Irish Moiled in that year , and by 1929 they had decided that the preferred colouring should be red or roan with a white dorsal line , white tail and underline and white udder . |
| 29 | Jordan 's group in the meantime had managed to sow some confusion behind enemy lines , but all of them except Lieutenant Martin and his crew were eventually rounded up . |
| 30 | Martin had managed to inspire some kind of admiration in Clelia , and had enlisted her sympathy in the cause of his dissolving marriage . |