Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [verb] [conj] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite her parents ' invitation to Harry to stay with them in London while he was back in England , he 'd written to say that he had already promised to go to Bertie Alcott 's home in Cadogan Square . |
| 2 | He seemed to have escaped before she had and so she made her way out of the court alone , trying to decide whether to lunch in the tea room upstairs or to go out to a restaurant . |
| 3 | Worst of all , no one seemed to have remembered that we had already been round this particular course , decided the policy , and rejected compulsory private health insurance . |
| 4 | Instead , she had toadied to these ghastly , grasping women in glittering hats , women who themselves seemed to have forgotten that they had husbands and families . |
| 5 | He 'd begun to scowl before she had even finished her sentence . |
| 6 | I went to talk to RELATE when I had problems with my own marriage . |
| 7 | But she did let slip that she had to curtsey to her every day and say : ‘ Good morning Your Highness . ’ |
| 8 | This was the fourth plane Polly had heard arrive since she had been literally dragged from the boat , marched along the marina , and bundled into the white-painted Customs building . |
| 9 | Moved by her obvious concern , he had written to explain that he had been through a bad time , but was better now . |
| 10 | She understood why Johnny had felt saddened when he had learned of their passing , and she smiled briefly as she recalled that she had never found the courage to tell him of the passing of that Empire , too — fearing that such knowledge could have precipitated an apoplectic fit ! |
| 11 | She had decided to pretend that nothing had happened . |
| 12 | So far , she had killed no one , but the vicar of St Andrew 's had once had to call in Doctor Bailey as he was in agony with severe stomach pains , and had had to admit that he had taken tea and sandwiches with a peculiar and pungent filling , at Dotty Harmer 's a few hours before . |
| 13 | And she had had to admit that she had wanted Luke Hunter to kiss her . |
| 14 | I had n't noticed this picture much while she was alive , but now she was dead it seemed as if her eyes sparkled with the same vitality that they had appeared to possess when I had seen her lying cold on her straw mattress a few days earlier . |
| 15 | She had wanted to know if he had a wife , just out of normal curiosity , ever since she had first met him . |
| 16 | It was long after she had gone to sleep and he had prodded her in the ribs to stop her snoring and was , himself , lying awake , staring into the darkness , thinking about Donald that it occurred to Henry that this was the longest conversation he had had with Elinor for about a year and that , after a bad start , she had , once or twice , come dangerously near to amiability . |
| 17 | Five hours later officers admitted the £9,000 Bedford Astra had gone missing before they had checked it for fingerprints . |
| 18 | It was not until they had finished eating and she had suggested having their coffee ‘ in more comfortable seats ’ , as she put it — he was careful to avoid the sofa — that she said , in mock reproach , ‘ You 've been very quiet , Freddie . |
| 19 | But , by that same morning , Ben Braithwaite had started to believe that he had thought of the cut in wages all by himself . |
| 20 | He had tried to do as he had been told by the Pessarane Behesht . |
| 21 | She knew that she had pushed her dreadful experience away , had refused to be broken , had tried to pretend that it had never happened . |
| 22 | A new set of feelings about the baby had begun to emerge since I had nearly lost it , and I wanted to be sure that they were going to take root before I risked dispersing them with talk . |
| 23 | Mildred held out her arm to see if it had begun to reappear but it had n't . |
| 24 | Perhaps she had begun to realise that she had been the victim of an unhappy marriage , rather than simply the cause of one . |
| 25 | She had been horrified at the botch Ruth made of it and Ruth had begun to wish that she had taken a few of Hester 's proffered lessons . |
| 26 | After two weeks he had begun to wonder if he had done the right thing . |
| 27 | She did n't look up when I said I was sorry I had been unkind , just went on opening drawers and dropping things and muttering ; I had begun to wonder if she had heard me , when she said , ‘ All right , all right , I 'm going just as soon as I can get my things together , I 'm not one to stay where I 'm not wanted . ’ |
| 28 | The women sitting around the room had begun to stir once they had seen the money . |
| 29 | But even that last saving grace of their relationship had begun to collapse when she had had to spend so much of her time down in Devon , looking after her father and his chaotic affairs . |
| 30 | And she had chosen to die as she had lived . |