Example sentences of "had [verb] [verb] [adv] " 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 | It was necessary to rest it on the lap because it was too heavy for her to hold up , which meant she had to sit leaning forward in order to read . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Papa and Mama , informed , were coming over , the lawyers had gathered to draw up the marriage settlement , everything seemed set fair . |
| 6 | White forces had intended to blow up more railway lines and workshops . |
| 7 | Although Crawford had intended to do only one series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em , for fear of becoming typecast , the impact of Frank Spencer persuaded him to make another six episodes , which were broadcast at the end of 1973 . |
| 8 | At the moment , however , as she stood outside the door she had intended trying before , one trembling hand hesitating over the latch , Isabel could only think as far ahead as the next few minutes . |
| 9 | Mr Blenkinsop had intended to turn right off the A689 into the Sedgefield access road . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | did not accept that the Vice-Chancellor had intended to lay down a rigid limitation on the exercise of the court 's discretion . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ( As his dreams of conquest crashed , Hitler consoled himself with the thought that Allied bombing was only destroying what he had intended to demolish anyway , to make place for his own buildings . ) |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The sight of empty wine-glasses reminded Dexter of a question he had intended to ask earlier . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Neither he nor Charlotte had intended to stay there long , But they continued renting the house for fourteen years , and after the First World War they bought it — after which it became known as Shaw 's Corner . |
| 21 | Cannon , 39 , had intended to play on for one more season , but he has a back injury that may require surgery . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The worst of it was that Charlotte had intended to emphasize how she had come in search of information , not confrontation . |
| 24 | ITTO had intended to build up a consensus towards achieving full sustainability in tropical forestry by the year 2000 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He had intended to sweep aside any reservations Kingdom might have about revealing a patient 's secrets by pointing out the overriding importance of finding Heather , but , instead , he had become meek and subdued , as if content to accept Kingdom 's judgement unreservedly on how much or how little he could divulge . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I had arranged to go out in a crab boat to get JTR 's coastal sketches . |
| 29 | Would I have bothered to go all the way into town if we had arranged to meet here ? ’ |
| 30 | The conc areas he had arranged conflicted severely with the dispositions of our own Bde , and he was ordered to assemble the whole force in a camp at VIKTRING . |