Example sentences of "had [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was conscious on admission , explained he had felt unwell for the last few days and had intended seeing a doctor today . |
| 2 | She had intended to take a bus , but in the dark everything looked unfamiliar and slightly forbidding . |
| 3 | The authority had intended to publish a full summary of its findings but was prevented from doing so by the DPP who felt that it would prejudice the trials of the three officers . |
| 4 | They had intended to stay a week . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Celia had intended to get a sandwich and eat it at her desk . |
| 8 | I had intended to adopt a more conciliatory approach , but his whole manner made me angry . |
| 9 | John wrote to Hanns in June that they had intended to bring a programme of ballets by |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It had been alleged in London , possibly truthfully , that he had intended to make a drinking tankard of it . |
| 12 | Asked whether he thought Mr McNeill had intended to make a racist comment , Mr Maan said that after listening to him he felt it had been an error of judgment and that Mr McNeill had not meant to offend anybody . |
| 13 | Asked whether he thought Mr McNeill had intended to make a racist comment , Mr Maan said that after listening to him he felt it had been an error of judgment and that Mr McNeill had not meant to offend anybody . |
| 14 | It was a wonderful succès d'estime for him and his miming — he had to mime building a cathedral — was spell-binding . ’ |
| 15 | Here the last of the French had regrouped to make a final stand before the inevitable retreat . |
| 16 | In T. R. Fyvel 's The Insecure Offenders , which first appeared in 1961 and which represented the most systematic and unsensationalised attempt to come to terms with the youth problem , the argument pivoted upon the assumption that the impact of ‘ affluence ’ had conspired to produce a novel disorientation among the nation 's youth . |
| 17 | Skirting a small lake , they had stared to see a great , grey fisher-bird that stabbed and paddled in the sedge , until a flight of wild duck had frightened them away with their clamour . |
| 18 | The driver of the same express was killed a year earlier when his locomotive careered into the rear of a stationary train from Basingstoke which had stopped to report a signals fault . |
| 19 | But even before she started to interview torturers , she ‘ had stopped expecting a monster ’ . |
| 20 | One eyewitness said : ‘ Di had taken the corner into the school a bit wide and had stopped to avoid a car coming out . |
| 21 | Of course , I looked more confident than earlier in the Test , but then everyone did once the ball had stopped turning a yard . |
| 22 | She had stopped giving a damn about Jake years ago . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Earlier , on Dec. 7 , Savimbi had undertaken to accept a ceasefire on condition that the Angolan government legalized opposition parties . |
| 25 | First reports of an agreement between the Fatah , the core group of the PLO , and the Islamic organization Hamas , originated from a leaflet distributed in the West Bank and Gaza on June 7 , which announced that the two groups had resolved to form a joint steering committee . |
| 26 | The Council had resolved to prepare a plan prior to it becoming mandatory . |
| 27 | They lacked any direct involvement in the origins of those hostilities and were clear-eyed about the depleted resources with which they had to work to arouse a usually indifferent public . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | If I had wished to create a hard and more definite edge or accent then I would have had to ensure that everything was dry . |
| 30 | We had wished to include a section on the photographic book , as one of the characteristic vehicles of the medium of the 1980s . |