Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] had [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some time I had wanted to move further from London with its many social distractions , and now with the half million words of notes I had brought back with me from my world tour waiting to be distilled into a book , I felt the need more than ever . |
| 2 | I realised writing How Far Can You Go ? how little of the conceptual faith I had grown up with I still retained … ’ |
| 3 | So far from convincing Karen she was wrong , by the Sunday afternoon I had come round to her point of view . |
| 4 | As clashes between Kirghiz and Uzbeks in southern Kirghizia 's Osh oblast ( region ) continued , reports emerged indicating the full horror of the intercommunal violence which had flared early in June [ see pp. 37540-41 ] . |
| 5 | Such a proposal is now of another era , however , and I was present when an ex-Dean of Academic Studies at the college presented a paper ( Stead 1980 ) attacking the trend to expensive , amalgamated police units which had grown up in the previous two decades . |
| 6 | We visited the Legion 's museum the following day and wandered round looking at the different flags of the units which had fought all over the world for 150 years . |
| 7 | The few square inches of it that I could see were spoiled by the sticky red blood which had pooled out over them . |
| 8 | The new land comprised 240 million cubic metres of lava which had spewed out at 1,100 °C ( 2,012°F ) and was cooled by dowsing with six million tons of sea water in an effort to halt its relentless drive . |
| 9 | It was an attitude of mind which had existed long before the sixteenth century ; the great change was that an attitude which could be found in a number of separate societies was suddenly turned by the expansion of Europe into a force that altered the way that the whole world ran its affairs . |
| 10 | The eight parties which had come together as the Kurdistan Front took part on May 19 in elections for an executive leader and a 105-seat Iraqi Kurdistan National Assembly for the Kurds of northern Iraq . |
| 11 | The Emir Bashir the Third , who ruled Mount Lebanon for the Sublime Porte in Istanbul , had been unable to contain the bitter disputes which had broken out between the two communities . |
| 12 | These discussions took place in the context of widespread doubts about Britain 's ‘ national efficiency ’ ; doubts which had arisen largely from our military incompetence during the Boer War . |
| 13 | The revolution in New Testament scholarship which had come about during the hundred years before he wrote The Problem of Pain appears to have passed him by . |
| 14 | The Aerosols were almost impossible to stop , and the soldiers and their weapons and equipment were getting burned and melted all over the place until one brave soldier who had clung on to one of the Aerosols as it flew back to its base came back ( after many adventures ) with the news that their base was a breadboard moored under an overhang on an inland creek . |
| 15 | She was wearing the huge red skirt she had made out of some curtains someone had sent to the jumble , and a black polo-necked jersey , and she had tied her hair up with the Indian scarf Luke had given her for Christmas . |
| 16 | Snatching an old raincoat from the hallstand she had plunged out into the rain . |
| 17 | ‘ The Eddie ’ — shorthand for ‘ The Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau ’ — was a collective act of surfing nostalgia , commemorating a North Shore waterman who had died heroically in 1978 . |
| 18 | She reached down to pick up the sweater she had thrown on to her own oilskins . |
| 19 | On the other hand , Ken has been remembered and widely admired , not only by the Oxford Movement and their successors , as the noblest , most saintly and most charitable representative of the hundreds of Anglican clergy who had grown up under Puritan rule , sustained in their faith by the memory of King Charles the Martyr , ; they had come into their own at the Restoration but had later given up comfortable benefices to live in poverty , out of a scrupulous loyalty to a monarch to whose ecclesiastical ambitions they were utterly opposed . |
| 20 | He held that an injunction could be granted against a stranger who had come innocently into the possession of confidential information to which he was not entitled . |
| 21 | Now , as they left the shuttle lounge at Heathrow , mixed in with the commuters and shoppers who had come down for the day , Adam saw the tail . |
| 22 | Paddy Hopkins , chairperson of the MEG , flew to Finland , home country of Outokumpu , at the invitation of Hans Fers , a Finnish journalist who had written widely on environmental matters and covered the proposed mining of Croagh Patrick . |
| 23 | Of the new ‘ Nepmen ’ , two were Jews who had come in from some other guberniia , and the other three all had military experience but little capital in goods or cash . |
| 24 | The waiting-room was moderately full and there were several clients who had come in from neighbouring villages . |
| 25 | One night Kit stumbled by , when Ariel was sitting outside the cabin , with the baby sleeping near her in the small hammock she had rigged up for him . |
| 26 | , Norman Hector Leifchild ( ‘ Nathaniel ’ ) ( 1893–1976 ) , humorous columnist , was born 31 May 1893 at 4 Somerset Road , Ealing , Middlesex , the only surviving son ( there were also three older daughters , of whom the younger two were twins ) of William Gubbins , commercial traveller , formerly an Oxfordshire farmworker who had run away to London at the age of twelve to sell groceries , and his wife Marie Cecile Richards . |
| 27 | As she stared at him , she knew it had come , the moment of physical and emotional confrontation she had held off for so long , and she felt so vulnerable that she could barely breathe . |
| 28 | The man looked round sharply at the figure who had emerged silently from inside the bar . |
| 29 | When she thought of the baths she had wallowed in at home , the scented soaps and thick towels , the perfumes and the lotions , she wanted to cry . |
| 30 | With so much happening , and no central authority , Lorne and I were constantly harried by the attempt to film only the crucial events , which appeared to erupt spontaneously at any time of the day or night , while conserving the precious little film stock we had put aside for the intended Bugis film . |