Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [to-vb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had never been able to do that , not with such unselfconscious pleasure , perhaps because deep down I had resented his existence which was preventing me doing all the marvellous things I had intended to do in the world . |
| 2 | These I do not repeat here , but my version of Boulestin 's sweet tomato conserve , which I had intended to include in the same book and which is indeed indexed as appearing in it , somehow got away . |
| 3 | A rector was , in her view , part of the traditional and comic cast list she had expected to find in the country , along with the squire and the village idiot . |
| 4 | He was encouraged to assume this double burden by Arthur Ponsonby , the younger brother of Fritz , who after nine years in the Diplomatic Service had resigned to sit in the Commons as a Liberal ; finding his colleagues inadequately radical , Ponsonby had then joined the Labour Party and in January 1924 was installed at the Prime Minister 's elbow as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs . |
| 5 | She had gone through rather a bad patch since she had come to live in the banqueting hall . |
| 6 | She suspected that Mark was thinking of the West Indians who had come to live in the parish and of course that was very right . |
| 7 | Shadows were settling thicker , as if great birds had come to perch in the branches overhead . |
| 8 | He glanced up to where Merrill had come to stand in the doorway , an amused smile flickering across his sensual mouth , his eyes slightly mocking . |
| 9 | Representatives of the few people they had come to know in the course of their wanderings round the world were left to clear up . |
| 10 | This time I remembered all the things I had forgotten to say in the railway carriage . |
| 11 | Ten days before , Italians had voted to move in the other direction by scrapping the harshest measures of their drug laws . |
| 12 | Rafsanjani denied reports of co-operation between Iran and Pakistan on the production of nuclear arms , and refused to indicate whether Iran had sought to mediate in the recent outbreak of sectarian violence between Shias and Sunnis [ see pp. 38968 ; 39009 ] , saying that " Pakistani Shiites decide for themselves " . |
| 13 | In September , three further seminars were run for centres which had decided to participate in the pilot . |
| 14 | Müller had offered to help in the hope of persuading him to invest in something less fantastic . |
| 15 | It also urged a move away from the practice of streaming — which , given the importance after 1944 of the universal competitive examination at eleven-plus , had tended to increase in the years after the War . |
| 16 | In the earlier years of his reign he had tended to stay in the central area of Francia proper , often at Aachen , his father 's old base , or further west , for instance at Compiègne on the River Oise . |
| 17 | These days he had trouble recalling the troublesome fragments of his education he had bothered to memorize in the first place ; the names of a few acquaintances were jumbled together with old verb forms and things he thought were childhood haunts turned out to be places he had only just discovered . |
| 18 | During the summer , and I called into the hospital on several occasions and I was reminded that I had agreed to participate in the ‘ fun run ’ and I decided it would be a good publicity gimmick and improve my chances of sponsorship if I took along and pushed him around the 10 mile course . |
| 19 | On Oct. 24 a list was published of 24 banks which had agreed to participate in the first level of syndication of a US$5,000 million loan to the Kuwaiti government . |
| 20 | With Churchill 's prodding , the British Chiefs-of-Staff had agreed to participate in the operation , albeit in modified form , and on 31 August an Anglo-Free French expedition set out from Liverpool . |
| 21 | This time around Waris Hussein used a full complement of four cameras instead of the two he had opted to use in the pilot , having expressed a preference then to experiment with ‘ moving camera technique ’ . |
| 22 | Although the FIS had refused to participate in the conference without prior acceptance of its demands , which included the release of FIS leaders arrested in June [ see p. 38312 ] , it was understood that channels of communication between the government and the FIS had remained open . |
| 23 | With the re-emergence of the UGT from its period of relative inactivity during Francoism ( it had refused to participate in the vertical union system ) , the ideological divisions between the two unions became an important feature of the post-1975 Spanish labour movement . |
| 24 | On Aug. 18 Nguza , who had refused to stand in the election , warned that Shaba , his home province , would not accept Tshisekedi 's authority . |
| 25 | She had refused to stay in the vast Sandringham House itself but the Queen offered her nearby Wood Farm . |
| 26 | In the twelve bright years of the young pharaoh 's reign — he had died insane aged twenty-nine , his dream and his country in ruins — a new light had seemed to dance in the souls of men too . |
| 27 | ‘ There we were thinking how marvellously they had adapted to win in the quagmire at Hong Kong last year and Gala the year before . |
| 28 | Tamas had attempted to stand in the same constituency in the 1985 general election , but had been thwarted by what he had alleged to be communist manipulation of the candidate selection process [ see p. 33812-13 ] . |
| 29 | The talks were arranged at Frelimo 's request by the Italian government and the Vatican , apparently without the knowledge of Presidents Daniel arap Moi of Kenya and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe , who had attempted to mediate in the conflict . |
| 30 | It would have been otherwise if he had covenanted to paint in the quarter " preceding the expiry or sooner determination of the said term " . |