Example sentences of "but [subord] [pron] had [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But if he had wanted to disappear with the diamonds , ’ she persisted , ‘ we 'd still be looking for him now . ’ |
| 2 | But if he had tried to dupe the wily Bobby Anscombe as easily as the innocent Malcolm Harris , it was no wonder that he had come unstuck . |
| 3 | But if it had meant working for two months she would have said immediately , as she did now , ‘ I 'll have it . ’ |
| 4 | The Act Two ball dress , the emerald gown with the huge stiffened collar embroidered with pearls , looked even better than the Act One dress and she realized that , without knowing quite how , she had quelled Gesner — not for reasons of rivalry but because she had had to get the production back on course . |
| 5 | But after they had finished eating ( which seemed to the travellers to take for ever ) , Goibniu sent the other giants out of the room , because he had important business to discuss . |
| 6 | But after he had agreed to leave Iran , he accepted the invitation to pause in Aswan on the way to the United States . |
| 7 | Lloyd believed that the lean years at the end of Sobers ' tenure were the result of an unprofessional approach , with not enough thought given to the problems ; under Kanhai this improved somewhat , but after he had failed to beat Denness 's team the job was given to Lloyd . |
| 8 | But when he had finished eating he seemed to want it known that he was not of the company . |
| 9 | In the moments when she had drifted nearer to consciousness she 'd thought she saw Corrie sitting on the bed , but when she had tried to lift her arms to gather her close the vision faded away . |
| 10 | But when she had tried to contact Ross some weeks after his departure she had had no idea how to get in touch with him . |
| 11 | Her fingers began to move over the sheet of paper , but when she had finished drawing the circle of standing stones , she found she had also sketched in the figure of Julius . |
| 12 | Lloyd George was resentful at the absence of a summons , but as he had chosen to work almost exclusively with Unionists during the preceding weeks , this resentment was hardly justified . |