Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few days ago , when it had been snowing , I saw a group of Savoy cabbages standing frozen and benumbed , and it reminded me of a group of women in their thin petticoats and old shawls which I had seen standing in a little hot-water-and-coal shop early in the morning . ’ |
| 2 | We were talking about flowers and I mentioned the wild garlic which I had seen growing in Wiltshire . |
| 3 | This I had seen happen in the lives of others , resulting in the despairing situation of looking on hopelessly at all the work and tender loving care lavished on a place being relentlessly returned to rampaging nature , and unable to muster the physical strength and mental resolve to do anything about it . |
| 4 | These I do not repeat here , but my version of Boulestin 's sweet tomato conserve , which I had intended to include in the same book and which is indeed indexed as appearing in it , somehow got away . |
| 5 | I had never been able to do that , not with such unselfconscious pleasure , perhaps because deep down I had resented his existence which was preventing me doing all the marvellous things I had intended to do in the world . |
| 6 | In addition , I had hoped to put in motion programmes in 3 separate areas and I hope that they still may be started in the not too distant future . |
| 7 | ‘ I had hoped to invest in your future by creating jobs , expanding education , reforming health care and reducing the debt without asking more of you , ’ he said . |
| 8 | I had hoped to slip in unnoticed but , almost as soon as I booked in the hotel , I was isolated by a dusk to dawn curfew . |
| 9 | In September , after three years in New Zealand , I had the opportunity to spend one month back in Britain and was able to review the changes I had heard previewed in March 1989 . |
| 10 | I had got married in 1961 , the year I went into television . |
| 11 | This time I remembered all the things I had forgotten to say in the railway carriage . |
| 12 | During the summer , and I called into the hospital on several occasions and I was reminded that I had agreed to participate in the ‘ fun run ’ and I decided it would be a good publicity gimmick and improve my chances of sponsorship if I took along and pushed him around the 10 mile course . |
| 13 | I had learned to fly in the Fleet Air Arm in 1940 and immediately after the war I spent nearly two years in South America flying for the Shell company . |
| 14 | Now I had to start thinking in world terms , for those Championships were coming in 1987 . |
| 15 | Nine years ago my uncle , Mr Reed , had died in this room , and since then nobody had wanted to sleep in it . |
| 16 | In September , three further seminars were run for centres which had decided to participate in the pilot . |
| 17 | The Times story is interesting because it links the report on the Commission 's activities with the Royal Society , a body which had become embroiled in official political-scientific propaganda exercises before , such as the five-year study of acid rain financed by the Central Electricity Generating Board . |
| 18 | They became separated near the river which had become swollen in torrential rain and gales . |
| 19 | PMMA 's biocompatibility is said to have been deduced from the fact that World War II fighter pilots were found to tolerate splinters of the polymer which had become embedded in their eyes following damage to their cockpits in aerial combat . |
| 20 | Professor Dinwiddy was more willing to accept the existence of a revolutionary movement in Lancashire and the West Riding which had begun to mobilise in a rudimentary way and which did administer oaths and invoke the name of Ludd . |
| 21 | In the earlier years of living with her he had sometimes left her a note speared on the kitchen tap before he went out for his walk — stirred and perhaps even drawn by the sight of her plain , flushed face in bed , which had begun to acquire in sleep a look of distress and disappointment . |
| 22 | Tutilo 's habit shimmered about the shoulders with the soft and soundless rain of Spring , which had begun to fall in mid-evening , his curls were damp and ruffled , and the hand he passed across his forehead to brush them back left a dark smear behind . |
| 23 | On Feb. 20 President Blaise Compaore suspended indefinitely the National Reconciliation Forum on democracy , human rights and development which had begun meeting in Ouagadougou on Feb. 11 [ for January preliminary discussions see p. 38709 ] . |
| 24 | He decided not to wipe his face , which had started to run in its usual sleepy-fruit way , because to do so might have destroyed the impression . |
| 25 | On Oct. 24 a list was published of 24 banks which had agreed to participate in the first level of syndication of a US$5,000 million loan to the Kuwaiti government . |
| 26 | One head of English in a comprehensive school described the compilation of an anthology of students ' writing which had included writing in languages other than English . |
| 27 | Before he had fully conceived the idea of The Four Quartets , he had remarked that what drew him to Beethoven was that in these last works the composer did what he himself had sought to do in poetry — and may have actually done in ‘ forty or fifty lines ’ — namely to ‘ get beyond ’ that art . |
| 28 | The remainder of the week proved busy , the demands made by the earthquake having caused a backlog of normal work , in addition to a sudden need to do something about the restlessness she had begun to notice in Florian Jones . |
| 29 | There was a satellite dish out in the grounds , and she was keen to keep up her French and Spanish as they had improved no end since she had begun working in Peter 's cosmopolitan little shop at the resort . |
| 30 | She ran through it , discovering how cold she had grown standing in the studio . |