Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] had [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At age eleven I had gone away from my parents ' school to a boarding school in Herefordshire , and remembered crying miserably as my mother and father drove off down the drive , leaving me to be looked after by one of the older boys . |
| 2 | His parents had been killed during the Berlin blitz and after being shunted from one set of foster parents to another he had run away at the end of the war . |
| 3 | I had to put on a brave face and try to show him that I was not worried , but when he appeared I was shocked at how much he had changed even in such a short time . |
| 4 | Harry was no longer looking at him , but felt sure he had leaned forward across his desk , as if their discussion were only now taking the desired direction . |
| 5 | Now all he had to look forward to was burying her . |
| 6 | Prior to settling in London around 1605 he had operated extensively in the Netherlands . |
| 7 | On March 17 he had apologised publicly to the " victims of deplorable and regrettable incidents " under his regime , stating that he now had " a profound , sincere and irreversible " commitment to reform . |
| 8 | At first they had sat directly opposite him , but as the train travelled through the subterranean tunnel one of them had moved three seats to his left . |
| 9 | By 1980 it had increased slightly to about 7,000 , the victim of its reputation for boucherie calves . |
| 10 | But friends were not surprised he had slipped away with the physio , who has practices in Sydney and London . |