Example sentences of "had [verb] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside the study door Murray strode forward without a word and Richard , bewildered , had to trot to keep up with him . |
| 2 | Plans for the new terminus at Raven Square on the outskirts of Welshpool included station buildings … but the rebuilding of the Sylfaen-Welshpool section and the reclamation of land for the station where the Sylfaen brook had meandered soaked up all available funds . |
| 3 | Apart from toys , walking-sticks , postcards and other such tourist necessities , he was also hoping to sell antiquités and the old things he had gathered lay about in an indescribable miscellany . |
| 4 | Papa and Mama , informed , were coming over , the lawyers had gathered to draw up the marriage settlement , everything seemed set fair . |
| 5 | White forces had intended to blow up more railway lines and workshops . |
| 6 | A defence agent said Frost and his friends had intended to move on from the lay-by , opposite Invermoriston Post Office , as soon as they got their Giro cheques . |
| 7 | did not accept that the Vice-Chancellor had intended to lay down a rigid limitation on the exercise of the court 's discretion . |
| 8 | did not accept that the Vice-Chancellor in Cloverbay had intended to lay down a rule that no order could be made under section 236 if the purpose for which the office-holder claimed reasonably to require information sought included obtaining information the receipt of which would go beyond a reconstitution of knowledge which the company once had and was entitled in law to possess . |
| 9 | Haymarket had intended to set up a computer business with over 20 staff to build its own PCs under the brand Eyecon and sell them through a dealer network . |
| 10 | I had intended to go on and become a teacher , but when Dad died of a heart attack I was needed to help run the family art gallery . ’ |
| 11 | The pilot of a Rallye had intended to take off from one field and land in another to pick up two passengers for local flying . |
| 12 | Antonia said if Mr Mellor had intended resigning over their affair ‘ he would have done so long ago — or would have been forced to do so long ago ’ . |
| 13 | Now in January 1979 , as he fled Teheran for the second time in his life , the Shah had intended to fly on to America after just a few day in Egypt . |
| 14 | Cannon , 39 , had intended to play on for one more season , but he has a back injury that may require surgery . |
| 15 | The Germans had intended blowing up the cellars of Champagne before retreating , but on 28 August 1944 they were caught napping as General Patton and his 3rd Army swept into Épernay . |
| 16 | ITTO had intended to build up a consensus towards achieving full sustainability in tropical forestry by the year 2000 . |
| 17 | He had intended to head back to the funicolare station but perhaps he had taken a wrong turning somewhere in his hurry to get away from Maidstone 's apartment . |
| 18 | First there was a welcome break when we took Venturous westward across the Minch to Stornoway where we had arranged to pick up Reg Clarke , our reigning cutter management Principal , who was flying up from London HQ to see some of our work first hand . |
| 19 | I had arranged to go out in a crab boat to get JTR 's coastal sketches . |
| 20 | I had also discovered that there would be little , if any , use for a car on Moila , so both my brother and I had arranged to travel up by train . |
| 21 | Here a thriving brewing quarter had developed made up of alewife , innkeeper and alehouse brewers . |
| 22 | He was taller than she remembered , more powerfully built , the angles of his face even harder and more menacing than she had recalled coming up in the lift . |
| 23 | I went on to say to him that I wished to make it clear that my disquiet did not relate to any particular name , but if in fact the names that I had heard turned out to be a correct report , and he published the List , the List would support legitimate criticism . |
| 24 | He had stopped to put off his shoes , that was all . |
| 25 | We had stopped trailing around after the men in the left , contorting ourselves in the hope of receiving some grudging crumbs of approval . |
| 26 | Guido had stopped to gaze down at her . |
| 27 | The snow had stopped coming down . |
| 28 | I had to go to sign on ; and I had to show my birth certificate . |
| 29 | Tom had to go racing round all morning rounding them up again . |
| 30 | It said Clerical Medical & General Life Assurance and Royal Insurance , which between them own 37.4pc of Brixton 's existing shares , had undertaken to take up their rights to the new issue in full . |