Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the Luton Post Office murder , and although , in view of my long labours on the Meehan case , I had resolved not to take up any more cases , this was one that I did not see how I could refuse . |
| 2 | Mrs Wright had dropped off to sleep again , making a kind of whistling noise through her mouth . |
| 3 | They had dropped in to pick up Bill , who was of necessity going without Faye this year , and the sight of Tom in a black dinner suit and a shirt so white that it was almost ultra-violet had rocked Belinda 's usual state of equilibrium where their friendship was concerned . |
| 4 | By the time Roirbak had reached his workbench and had sat down to ponder over whether he could pay Jahsaxa enough compensation to drop Crevecoeur and why he should want to do that for anyone anyway , Mellissa the receptionist fluted her chimes over his commset . |
| 5 | When she had looked in to clean up the following day the meal was still on the table , untouched . |
| 6 | ‘ You said your name was Millet … you said that you had come here to find out more about our son . ’ |
| 7 | And so perhaps the time had come just to sit down somewhere on the ground and wait . |
| 8 | Even before they had left , his PA , Caroline Amphlett , had come in to take away the tea cups and clear the table . |
| 9 | Two men who had come in to quaff down great glasses of cidre were now returning to their scythes in a field opposite , to join a line of sodden reapers there . |
| 10 | So Edward had come back to see how she had got on . |
| 11 | In fact it was his identical twin , whom nobody knew about , and who had come back to tidy up his brother 's affairs . |
| 12 | But most of them had come back to work reasonably cap-in-hand , preferring to be half-starved on half-pay than to starve altogether on none . |
| 13 | Or perhaps he had heard rumours of my goings-on , and had come personally to find out ‘ what Kirkup 's up to now ’ — the traditional BC phrase wherever they have the misfortune to discover my presence . |
| 14 | The street seemed to be full of perfume now , wafting around her in the biting wind — the perfume that was the most evocative memory she had of her mother , a haunting perfume , light and teasing and sweet , a perfume that smelled a little like a summer garden at dusk , a perfume , the memory of which had possessed the power to bring tears to her eyes long , long after she had forgotten how to conjure up the image of her mother 's face . |
| 15 | Between that date and 11 February 1987 the plaintiffs succeeded in raising a sum sufficient to meet the liabilities , the maximum amount of which had been quantified in the course of proceedings by Mr. Shamji who had sought unsuccessfully to set aside the appointment of the receivers . |
| 16 | Given their weakened state , the Dutch had done well to hold out for so long . |
| 17 | He reckoned he had done well to get away with two cups of tea and forty minutes of reminiscence before an opening arose to thrust in a question . |
| 18 | He had pulled a hamstring during his warm-up and had done well to patrol as relentlessly as he did for an hour . |
| 19 | He had decided not to go straight home , or to go to the pub yet . |
| 20 | Tony had decided not to go out with them , as he felt self-conscious about having to borrow money from his father to pay for drinks . |
| 21 | I could n't remember why we had decided not to go there . |
| 22 | She had decided not to think too deeply about the end result just yet . |
| 23 | Cowley had moved off to speak briefly with Colonel Lin Foh . |
| 24 | It kept us in harbour until the following afternoon when , we decided it had moderated enough to push on to Tobermory . |
| 25 | A number of gipsy men had crowded around to learn why Seb had come galloping into the camp and now Noah Plunkett turned to them and began issuing orders in the Romany tongue . |
| 26 | The entire world shrank to the mere fifteen feet separating her from the man she had thought never to see again . |
| 27 | She later found out that the bosses of the two companies had got together to work out which one of the couple would be the cheapest to sack . |
| 28 | A terse statement late in the day from both the Bank of Edinburgh and the Heart of England stated simply that the directors of both had agreed not to proceed further with their merger discussions . |
| 29 | Then as if the whole world had hunched over to block out the sun , the sky becomes as black as coal . |
| 30 | Her life-long friend , Catherine Quinn , 23 , escaped serious injury because she had bent down to pick up a 20p piece , and she was flung over hand railings . |