Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead he had relentlessly bombarded her with the same questions . |
| 2 | Bernard , appreciative that Laura in New York would be treated as a queen of design , an extraordinary superwoman who had singlehandedly achieved it all , accordingly decided not to go on this trip . |
| 3 | She had badly wanted him to kiss her , of course — so badly that she knew it simply must not happen … |
| 4 | True , I had the somewhat grisly T-shirt and track-suit bottoms which had gamely seen me through a two-hour run-through , but they were in a state and could probably have walked unaided to the BBC on their own . |
| 5 | The President accepted the law , but under protest , delighted that the Assembly had thereby provided him with a weapon which could be turned against them when the need arose . |
| 6 | Many of his friends had laughingly warned him that he now had ‘ double trouble ’ . |
| 7 | But 15 weeks ago , a 17 year old trainee monk walked into Brixton Police Station and claimed Bishop Peter had indecently assaulted him . |
| 8 | She had sarcastically asked him if he 'd tracked Ryan down in order to make him pay it back , and he 'd said yes . |
| 9 | I remembered that I had promised to see her about some poems she had written and had nervously asked me to read . |
| 10 | She was going to swim in the lake , alone , because both Nick and her father had expressly forbidden it . |
| 11 | But there were still a great many bodies to come in , the Army Medical Corps man had grimly told her . |
| 12 | Someone had eventually taken her through the bustling , towering giant world of the shop to where her mother waited . |
| 13 | The charges arose from the 1988 Fitzgerald Commission established to investigate accusations of corruption in the Queensland state government during Sir Joh 's period of office , which had eventually forced him to resign [ see pp. 35975 ; 36817 ] . |
| 14 | John O'Connor has described how , following up what was a Zanuck initiative , a Warner Bros team had eventually produced I am a Fugitive , a film that outspokenly denounced the Southern chain-gang system by using a true story that had received a great deal of publicity , the studio 's gamble on topicality really paying off when the real-life subject of the story was actually rearrested just a few months after the film 's release . |
| 15 | Many of his acquisitions had eventually bored him and had been disposed of by auction , but the most accomplished and entertaining individuals were rewarded , once they became too old or unattractive to perform their requisite duties , by unconditional liberation from the household and a generous pension . |
| 16 | The authorities had eventually allowed him in , but only to see a spokesman . |
| 17 | US officials had been alarmed at the size of Moda'i 's estimate and had unofficially rejected it . |
| 18 | The anticipation overcame her fear , and there was fear : the thing which had most made her hesitate was the thought of the deaths of her two friends . |
| 19 | She stared at him as he sipped his lager , thinking it was a shame his compassion for handicapped people had n't extended to her sister when she had most needed him . |
| 20 | They had previously been kept in an 80 gallon tank where the owner had rarely seen them . |
| 21 | She had rarely seen him outside the context of the family . |
| 22 | She had rarely heard him speak with such vehemence , never seen him so angry . |
| 23 | In the past , the facility had rarely let him down . |
| 24 | He was still doing it over an hour later , frantically trying to remember everything and wishing he had somewhere to write it all down , when there was a sound of feet running up the stairs . |
| 25 | He had not wanted a drama , demands , excitement , but he had somewhere wanted her at least to complain that he did not . |
| 26 | Her mind was too busy seeing the man who had wearily let her go , not wilfully , as she had always imagined , but finally , for what he thought was her own good . |
| 27 | He was , after all , not a passionate man , and the new Jenna who returned from France had rather alarmed him . |
| 28 | As in example , the Theban Crates flung all his possessions into the sea saying I had rather drown you than you should drown me . |
| 29 | Stephen had rather expected he would do that . |
| 30 | He had rather enjoyed it and it had helped him to keep his mind off what might be happening to Snodgrass and to Floy and Fenella . |