Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] had [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh ma'am if only I had shown myself strong in the face of temptation ! |
| 2 | So I had to pick it all up . |
| 3 | Thumbed through some papers that they have got , in front of the shop , and found one set of erm , papers from nineteen thirty-six concerned the French National Anthem , and I thought that was a second amazing coincidence , er , and so I had to buy myself that that set of papers for about a pound . |
| 4 | Let dear old Miguelito charm a new generation of English roses — Shelley had outgrown him , although she would always keep a special place in her inner being for that lovely evening when she and only she had had his sweet and undivided attention … |
| 5 | In that one respect only she had failed her dear friend . |
| 6 | If only you had read it first — as at least six people did without realising . |
| 7 | So she had made her fear-filled way home to spend another night in the cellar , her moods alternating between terror and self-pity , until the high , sweet sound of the all clear brought relief and anger . |
| 8 | She was there because you had not kept your appointment with her and so she had to make her own way home in the dark . ’ |
| 9 | So she had left her native Ireland with a new , gentle man and she was expecting a baby . |
| 10 | So you had to buy your own stuff then ? |
| 11 | By three o'clock she had asked her several times if there was anything she wanted , brought her biscuits and tea and watched the clock for an hour . |
| 12 | So they had followed their main course with torta di albicocche , a sweet pastry case filled with apricots in a creamy egg custard . |
| 13 | ‘ Even so they had to send her half round the world . |
| 14 | Apparently he had become nothing more than this , forage for commonplace family small talk . |
| 15 | She could n't remember now how long he had held her imprisoned , only that it seemed an eternity of immeasurable time . |
| 16 | Perhaps he had given him some idea of when he would be home . |
| 17 | Obviously he had judged it unpropitious to broach the subject of his own predicament right now . |
| 18 | If only it had left us alone , we could have been happy , we could have gone on being happy . |
| 19 | So he had answered his own son , that time when Yuan had come to him with his dream — that awful nightmare he had had of the great mountain of bones filling the plain where the City had been . |
| 20 | So he had to make his own product . ’ |
| 21 | He knew that the office staff might open it and read it so he had to make it impersonal . |
| 22 | If Benjamin had given her nothing else in their life together he had given her this child , and for that Sarah would forgive him anything . |
| 23 | Somehow she had imagined them both greeting Peter together , wrapped in each other 's arms , confirming what Peter had already imagined when he 'd rung her the other morning . |
| 24 | Somehow he had imagined it larger , more forbidding . |
| 25 | Somehow he had worked himself free . |
| 26 | Several journalists questioned him about whether or not he had found it hard being Laura Ashley 's son and his answer told them more than they had realized . |
| 27 | I 'd only been in Monty 's poky little office for ten minutes and already he had given me two priceless lessons in my future profession — to make sure I dressed properly , and never be afraid to ask the question " Why ? " |
| 28 | I knew at once I had seen its like recently . |
| 29 | Like I had to give her some top priorities yesterday as she was n't going to be about . |
| 30 | Asked what she would do once she had satisfied her immediate needs , one emigrant said , pensively , ‘ I shall watch the East German anniversary celebrations , but I do n't know if I will be laughing or crying . ’ |