Example sentences of "had [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that 's a costly business as we know to our cost , we did n't have to pay the three hundred thousand pounds , the pension fund did , but we had to risk paying those to go to court . |
| 2 | Although the passengers in the ‘ sardine box railway ’ had to sit facing each other on long benches in light too dim to read a newspaper , they could breathe . |
| 3 | While the scenario he had painted held some undeniable attractions , she was not tempted . |
| 4 | I had a bath , then had to wait to see this officer in charge , and because they read on my notes that I 'd barricaded , I was put on this wing like C1 . |
| 5 | All that would have been his years ago when Jonas had had to be put away ; it was as though fate had conspired to ruin both of them . |
| 6 | At the words ‘ lovely pictures ’ , Amaranth remembered the ‘ spread ’ in Penthouse for which she had received –500 all that time ago . |
| 7 | She knew that he would be hurt even though she hoped that he had stopped loving such an undeserving , self-serving shrew , because anyone would be hurt by such a scene . |
| 8 | But my hand had stopped bleeding some time ago and I could not reasonably pretend that I was wounded . |
| 9 | But then , as night fell and the lights were switched on in the carriage , illuminating the sepia photographs of Morecambe Bay at dawn and donkeys trotting Blackpool sands , he felt his privacy was being invaded and had stopped making those conciliatory gestures . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She could n't think ; her mind had stopped doing that sort of thing ; she could only wait till her arms and legs felt like moving again . |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman is being neither reasonable nor fair to the management or work force in British mines and is not taking account of the pain and suffering through which some of them had to go to achieve that improvement . |
| 13 | Well I ca came home , I had Derek 's overalls in the the sink , they need washing on their own , and I said to Cla , so I had to go shopping this morning because Claire only worked all day yesterday so she |
| 14 | Before they sailed from London they had undertaken to do all that they could under all the emergencies of the voyage . |
| 15 | There the company had undertaken to lay some thousands of miles of pipe line across the permafrost , spreading before it specially constructed polystyrene boards to guard against the disastrous consequences of direct contact with the ice . |
| 16 | Of course we must have cartwheels and the maiden to whose lot it had fallen to perform this important feature of the dance so very neatly and prettily is recalled . |
| 17 | She had resolved to put all such problems behind her . |
| 18 | Did the industrial militants in the car industry and the docks , the union leaders disaffected by incomes policy and the council tenants by the local state apparatus , the left intellectuals in the universities , add up to a social bloc capable of achieving sweeping changes in Britain 's insertion within international economic relations and the relations of production in the domestic economy , even if the Labour leadership had wished to lead such a movement ? |
| 19 | She had expected to spend that night with Edward and wake up beside him , the left-hand side , that had become a habit and it was a mistake , no doubt , to allow marriage to become a matter of habit , but that did n't prove that she was not a woman . |
| 20 | All told , BT had expected to invest some $100m in the three ventures . |
| 21 | Similar impressions are obtained from other examples of this type : ( 22 ) He did not want to be alone , and had expected to find some of his friends at the bar . |
| 22 | And I had enjoyed buying all those nice new clothes ! |
| 23 | In the first place , we had to come to know each other , to establish a community of interest , and so we used the early tours and concert schedules to play through the orchestra , s main repertory . |
| 24 | For the present , it may simply be observed that Szekeres and Sbytov had omitted to include these cases . |
| 25 | Ramsay MacDonald , putting the matter rather bluntly , noted that trade unionists had come to acknowledge that , ‘ Labour could solve mining and similar difficulties through the ballot box . ’ |
| 26 | And so although his early contributors had come from the European tradition which preceded the Great War , by the early Thirties he had come to rely more and more upon British contributors . |
| 27 | Alexandra had come to see that , perhaps two years after the disastrous birthday party , finding her father in the midst of the flock at lambing time , naked to the waist like the other shepherds , his right arm streaked with the birth slime of the lambs whose arrival had been difficult . |
| 28 | This is slightly curious , because a ‘ law ’ in science had come to mean some relationship which had been derived from experiment . |
| 29 | And they had come to feel that pulse . |
| 30 | As the state had come to intervene more and more in the field of welfare provision it fed the ethic of equality and broke down the constraining check of deference ( of poor people in their place ) , so itself contributing to a growing lobby for " more " and " better " public provision . |