Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had intended to take a bus , but in the dark everything looked unfamiliar and slightly forbidding . |
| 2 | They had intended to stay a week . |
| 3 | The Tories had intended to harness a number of government white papers to manifesto commitments in a rolling election campaign from the New Year onwards . |
| 4 | The oldest tradition , which goes back to the contemporary historian John Foxe , claims that the queen and her Protestant councillors had intended to introduce a settlement based on the 1552 Prayer Book , but were later forced to make some concessions in the Catholic direction because of the implacable opposition of the bishops and some of the lay peers in the House of Lords . |
| 5 | Celia had intended to get a sandwich and eat it at her desk . |
| 6 | John wrote to Hanns in June that they had intended to bring a programme of ballets by |
| 7 | It had been alleged in London , possibly truthfully , that he had intended to make a drinking tankard of it . |
| 8 | Although Haworth had intended to make a career in the chemical industry , he won a scholarship which enabled him to go to Gottingen for postgraduate work . |
| 9 | One eyewitness said : ‘ Di had taken the corner into the school a bit wide and had stopped to avoid a car coming out . |
| 10 | People who had travelled to find a vantage point near RAF Marham , where the air force was enjoying its 75th anniversary celebrations , were forced to make their way home again . |
| 11 | Earlier , on Dec. 7 , Savimbi had undertaken to accept a ceasefire on condition that the Angolan government legalized opposition parties . |
| 12 | The Council had resolved to prepare a plan prior to it becoming mandatory . |
| 13 | By a notice of appeal dated 20 July 1992 the Official Solicitor appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that since the judge had found as facts that ( a ) T. had been able properly and fully to form a balanced judgment and had not been acting under undue influence but had been acting voluntarily , and ( b ) her several expressions withholding consent were valid refusals which bound the hospital , ( 1 ) he had erred in finding himself entitled to make the declaration ; ( 2 ) it had been wrong for him to assess T. 's subsequent intentions and to make assumptions as to whether she would have qualified or changed her refusal in the later circumstances ; and ( 3 ) he had erred in finding that ( a ) there was no evidence that T. had wished to refuse a blood transfusion even though it was at risk to her life , ( b ) lack of understanding of the risks involved justified acting against her expressed refusal , ( c ) her withholding of consent did not embrace the emergency which had arisen and took no account of changed circumstances , ( d ) her expressed refusals did not evince a settled intention to persist in her refusal even if injurious to her health when her best interests required a transfusion ; and ( e ) he was not satisfied that her refusal was continuing . |
| 14 | We had wished to include a section on the photographic book , as one of the characteristic vehicles of the medium of the 1980s . |
| 15 | He 'd agreed to ring her and had omitted to leave a phone number . |
| 16 | Unfortunately the commercials company had omitted to provide a Director 's Chair , so he had to make do with a low wall . |
| 17 | In the same way I was unable to do much else but grin and bear it when my then assistant chief constable ( crime ) , Ken Oxford ( later to be the chief constable of Merseyside ) implicitly restated police concepts of correct bodily order , when he jokingly told a group of visiting journalists who had come to do a story on this wayward group of detectives , ‘ we pay him a plain clothes allowance you know ’ . |
| 18 | The need to raise money for John II 's ransom had led to the levying of a salt tax and taxes on merchandise throughout the kingdom , and by 1367 these taxes had come to acquire a look of permanence . |
| 19 | She had met him back home in the west country when he had come to supervise a show put on by one of the big ready-to-wear labels , Carnega , for whom he worked as a junior member of the design team . |
| 20 | It was an important vehicle of terror in the Stalinist period and , by the time of Stalin 's death , had come to occupy a place in the state machinery which in some ways undermined the position of the Communist Party itself ; everyone came under suspicion . |
| 21 | The fact that the cold war lasted so much longer than the economic idyll meant that Americans never adjusted to the fact that , economically , their country had long ceased to be able to deliver the annual increase in prosperity they had come to consider a birthright . |
| 22 | As I had come to know a number of rectors and vicars in the course of my journeys , for reasons which I have mentioned , Eliot questioned me about what he felt might he a mounting danger , namely that the Church might seek to increase by chauvinism what it appeared to be losing in spirituality : and indeed the vicar of my own village had been upbraided by a group of parishioners for not preaching sermons directly furthering the war effort , which Eliot said was tantamount to making him into an unpaid official of the MOI . |
| 23 | A distinctly mature audience had come to hear a band whose fortunes they 've followed for a quarter of a century . |
| 24 | Farrel explained that he was an agricultural student and had come to lend a hand with the harvest . |
| 25 | In the opening game of the tournament against Austria , Scotland had forgotten to bring a pennant to exchange with their opponents . |
| 26 | ‘ They 'll come back , ’ I said comfortingly to the girls , who were lamenting that they had forgotten to bring a camera . |
| 27 | Then she remembered that she had forgotten to get a receipt from Signor Fixit . |
| 28 | The United Mine Workers ' Union ( UMW ) announced on Feb. 20 that 2,000 striking miners in Virginia , West Virginia and Kentucky had voted to accept a settlement negotiated on Jan. 1 between union officials and the Pittston Coal Company [ see p. 37180 ] . |
| 29 | The Association had applied to become a member following the presence of Kenneth McDougall and Mark Frame as observers at the World Federation s second Congress in Zagreb , Yugoslavia , in 1955 . |
| 30 | Yesterday Brendan Boyle , of the council 's planning department , said staff at the Bowes Museum had applied to make a survey of Clark 's Yard to establish whether a full dig would be necessary . |