Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [vb past] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The detective wondered whether Nicola 's husband was deliberately misleading them or had had a genuine slip of memory . |
| 2 | It was always a mistake to let Mr Evans know you liked someone or had enjoyed anything . |
| 3 | I knew that if I tried to rob someone and got caught , I 'd go to jail . |
| 4 | Once in her life already she had become attached to someone and had allowed herself to be swept down with him in his lonely vortex into the silent depths where nothing moves but drowned sailors coughing seaweed ; only Miriam herself knew how much it had cost her to ascend again from that fascinating , ghostly world towards light and life . |
| 5 | I realise now that we were trying to find an interest for ourselves and had done the classic thing of looking for it in a new environment which actually involved more adjustment and less ease than if we had stayed where we were . |
| 6 | Nothing that had happened recently had caused her pain , she told herself adamantly — anger certainly , and annoyance in abundance , but not pain . |
| 7 | ‘ You said you had nothing that had belonged to your father ! ’ he accused savagely . |
| 8 | A. T. With the strike having taken place , everyone was jockeying , everyone that had sat for Sergeant and passed their exams , the only way they could see to get promotion was to report another man . |
| 9 | Anyway because I were there with them you see he thought it were me that had got it and I says I have n't got it . |
| 10 | But Francis told me that had happened to them last year . |
| 11 | He was joking , half flirting , stirring an intimacy between them that had sent a flickering response , like warm fingers , down Ronni 's spine . |
| 12 | When she had been at college she had socialised in plenty and had had her fair share of boyfriends , Ashley reflected , as they drove along , but since then her energies had been single-mindedly channelled into her career . |
| 13 | He had designed many buildings himself and had employed architects in subordinate capacity , such as Matthew Digby Wyatt at Paddington Station . |
| 14 | Athelstan snorted with laughter and leaned forward , his arms crossed , as if he was talking to himself and had forgotten the coroner sitting beside him . |
| 15 | When his father died he felt nothing and had done nothing more than take a day off for the funeral . |
| 16 | Now this was a lady who hardly knew me and had met Nigel only once , and briefly , at a party . |
| 17 | Zak was nodding his mop of curls beside me and had begun snapping his fingers rather fast . |
| 18 | The flight engineer , who had been at Halton as all apprentice with me and had left and later returned to the Air Force , complained bitterly as I was making all the preparations for take-off , but I ignored him . |
| 19 | I saw them and felt moved to pick them up . |
| 20 | They claimed that to date diplomatic , political and humanitarian efforts by the international community had failed to stop the aggression against them and had done little to alleviate the suffering of the civilian population . |
| 21 | She had originally intended to resell them but found she had grown attached to them and had built shelves in her sitting-room . |
| 22 | Her sister was fond of animals too , but had never had very much to do with them and had moved away from home just after her eighteenth birthday . |
| 23 | Information had been received during the night that a large party of Dragoons , commanded by the infamous Graham of Claverhouse , were in pursuit of them and had spent the night at Strathaven . |
| 24 | Summer ‘ 91 , I had just retired and I was so looking forward to it when , one week ‘ into it ’ , told us that she & had parted company . |
| 25 | I seemed to recall that in the past when we 'd met we 'd got on reasonably well , so I assumed that it must have been something that Jennifer had told you that had turned you against me , or , failing that , that you were just embarrassed at having to work with your sister 's ex-fiancé . ’ |
| 26 | So was , was it also you that had got some , some , some dates in the references that had n't happened yet like the erm pe there was somebody it might have been you had actually referred to things that , you know , sort of twenty first of the fourth ninety four and things like that and it was sort of |
| 27 | And then he said it were you that had got it , I says Maggie has n't been . |
| 28 | It was n't the sight of the dog itself that had driven her indoors , but the certainty that the police would soon be arriving . |
| 29 | Polish television reported on April 20 that the Citizens ' Movement for Democratic Action Party ( ROAD ) , established in July 1990 by Solidarity supporters [ see pp. 37620-21 ] , had dissolved itself and had re-formed as the Democratic-Social Movement . |
| 30 | The cat had stopped cleaning itself and had curled up asleep in a little pool of sunshine . |