Example sentences of "[to-vb] [subord] [noun] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had felt the lure of the unexplored , the compulsion to go where others had not been . |
| 2 | In the last general election it was encouraging to find where contest had taken place that enthusiasm for cooperative representation had been considerably increased , and in addition the opportunity of bringing before the general public the benefits of cooperation has resulted in a very material addition to the cooperative forces in the district . |
| 3 | I had the somewhat faint hope that he might lead me to the place and permit me to stand where Balboa had stood — on the very peak which John Keats , with the kind of monumental mistakenness permitted under the principle of poetic licence — declared was occupied by : |
| 4 | The Kuwaitis wanted to know if Iraq had assets that had escaped the freeze imposed in August . |
| 5 | ‘ He was wanting to know if Philip had been up in Mr Hyde 's woods . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ He was very friendly and nice ; he wanted to know if Anna had been asked to come to the lawyer 's about her grandfather 's will . ’ |
| 7 | It was clear that she was very close to death , and Julia began to worry because Minnie had not been informed . |
| 8 | Wickham wanted to know whether Hunter-Blair had explained why he chose not to deliver the copy himself . |
| 9 | He wanted to know whether Wickham had arrested anyone for the murder because until then he could not face going to work . |
| 10 | Rafsanjani denied reports of co-operation between Iran and Pakistan on the production of nuclear arms , and refused to indicate whether Iran had sought to mediate in the recent outbreak of sectarian violence between Shias and Sunnis [ see pp. 38968 ; 39009 ] , saying that " Pakistani Shiites decide for themselves " . |
| 11 | In other words , I was trying to establish whether religion had been important enough in the interviewees ' childhood ( at least , as it was now remembered ) for it to be mentioned , without any prompting on my part ; and then , I would try not to prejudge what the interviewees thought was involved in religion , but let them decide what aspect would come out ‘ naturally ’ — whether they would talk about the institutionalised churches , private prayer , a personal relationship with God , a way of looking at the world or the ultimate meaning of their existence . |
| 12 | Even now , after this short while , she found it hard to remember if Johnny had truly been with her or if it had been only a dream . |
| 13 | And it was indescribably eerie — so that I almost began to wonder if Posi had brought me to the right planet . |
| 14 | But I was beginning to wonder if Ipsarion had ever been climbed by uncloven feet , a suspicion intensified by studying the maps available in the local shops . |
| 15 | As Rachel reached her flat and let herself in she found herself trying to remember whether David had been there that evening when her mother had sent for her . |
| 16 | By the time she reached the fireplace , she was also beginning to wonder whether Maurice had known McKitrick was married . |
| 17 | The plan was to see if feminism had really had any impact on what was available by way of art books to the art-loving public . |
| 18 | She glanced up , apparently casually , to see if Nenna had taken this too hard . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , it was worth turning our house over to see if Albie had stashed the drugs inside . |
| 20 | On her way to the house she stopped off in the Campo San Maurizio to see if Annunziata had everything she needed for the dinner she was preparing to welcome Comfort , and discovered that the English post had arrived with a letter from George Wilson . |
| 21 | I 've been doing research that 's been inspired by the work of Marie Hoader , who 's Emeritus Professor at the university , a social psychologist , and she had researched unemployment back in the nineteen thirties ; she studied an Austrian village called Mariental , where practically everybody was unemployed , and late in the nineteen seventies as our group began raising questions about the future of work , she engaged in a review of the research between the thirties and the seventies to see if things had changed . |
| 22 | Mr Wakerley said : ‘ Are we to believe there is another kidnapper , the kidnapper of Julie Dart , the killer of Julie Dart , who by the purest coincidence used the bridges across the Dove Valley Trail to collect ransom money three miles apart , who stencilled his messages and who thought of using detectors to try to see if police had bugged the money so they could follow ? . ’ |
| 23 | We could have searched the seas to see if Bartholomew had survived . ’ |
| 24 | He glanced sideways to see if Jehana had heard Kaidu 's question , and saw from her expression that she had . |
| 25 | The three climbers who originally passed the message to them were eventually traced , and confirmed that not only had they informed the Guardia Civil in person on the 21st , but afterwards had phoned each day to see if Jeremy had been found . |
| 26 | His plan was to wait until Pearman had left , and then creep up on the baker 's young wife , knock her unconscious with the cudgel , and be off with the takings . |
| 27 | Too often , I think , the referee is tempted to shift the goal-posts in reliance upon his own speculation about what it would have been sensible for Parliament to do if Parliament had thought of doing it . |
| 28 | Life did seem rather full of nothing to do since Sam had said the competition was off . |
| 29 | Although Kraal tried his hardest to do as Minch had told him and talk to Creggan , the fact was that he was not very good at it . |
| 30 | This was too good an opportunity to miss because Alan had fished Hope for many years and knew every inch , intimately . |