Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had imagined that the coast would be largely cliff-bound , but in fact cliffs suitable for sea-birds are not common except around the far northern headlands . |
| 2 | From Dennis 's drunken hints that memorable evening in Ramillies Drive I had gathered that the reason for this was Karen 's sterility , so I was somewhat surprised to find her going on the offensive . |
| 3 | ‘ At 42 , with seven children , I had decided that the Goodrich Company would probably be my ‘ home ’ for the rest of my working life . |
| 4 | When I designed the L.game it seemed obvious from the rules I had written that the pieces could be picked up and placed anywhere on the board . |
| 5 | In a cinema , for example , although you would no doubt forgive me if I shouted ‘ Move ! ’ at you if I had seen that a heavy chandelier was falling on to your head , you might not be so tolerant if I used the same formulation , requesting the same action , if you were simply obscuring my view of the screen . |
| 6 | From the success so far , I had to conclude that the parental mucus was merely a dietary supplement and that Green Chromides can be reared in the same manner as the majority of cichlids . |
| 7 | I had to wait until the female was bulging-ripe , so within a few days she was brooding . |
| 8 | I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound . |
| 9 | I had hoped that a further proper search of Meredith-Lee 's rooms would have come up with something , but absolutely not . |
| 10 | I had hoped that the facts would make themselves so apparent that the motive could emerge in its own good time — but it 's not looking that way at all . |
| 11 | While uneasy about the more dubious aspects of the Treaty , I had hoped that the miserable imprisonment of zoo animals and the wretched conditions of livestock ( particularly live exports ) would be things of the past once the Treaty was ratified . |
| 12 | I had hoped that the hon. Gentleman was going to say whether he was in favour of the Liberal Democrats ' position that there should not be a Secretary of State and on Labour 's position that there should be . |
| 13 | I had hoped that the allegations of fraud might make our path easier on this one , but the Admiral himself admits that there really is no legal transgression that he can yet point to . |
| 14 | The lady I hoped to marry was Miss Marjorie Alice Barrett , who was a teacher in the National school of St Luke 's , Maidenhead , which I had attended when the family moved up from Somerset , and from which I gained a free place to the local county school . |
| 15 | I had noticed that a great deal of moral indignation was wasted in England over matters relating to sexual encounters . |
| 16 | Despite his reputation and the general theory that doctors were impervious to tears because they saw so many shed , I had noticed that the way our men reacted to weeping females depended mainly on their ages . |
| 17 | I had reckoned that an accusation of fear would sting the Maggot , and even before he interrupted me he had banked the plane westwards . |
| 18 | I had said that the world in 1984 will not be much like that in Orwell 's novel . |
| 19 | I had noted that the Handbook called Juliaca ‘ lawless ’ . |
| 20 | I had heard that a couple who lived across the road from us , Maureen and Aubrey Edwards , took in and cared for injured birds . |
| 21 | I had heard that the lasses used to beat you up when you first got in and that the lesbians used to grab hold of you and that there was loads of violence and everything . |
| 22 | On the first part of the question , events moved so rapidly in Dublin last night that by the time that I had heard that the Minister had been appointed , I gather that he had also resigned . |
| 23 | I was pretty certain of the approach I had to take and the fact that we 're virtually the same age was an advantage . |
| 24 | ‘ The letter simply thanked me for what I had done and the senders signed themselves only as Berend 's Family . ’ |
| 25 | I am part Welsh and part Scot , and I had understood that the argument was that Wales and Scotland are nations and therefore entitled to a different national system . |
| 26 | I was not so much gratified with the interior of the country as I had anticipated but the people tell me I have seen it in an unfavorable season , in consequence of no rain having fallen for 3 months . |
| 27 | I rang to say I had arrived and a car came from Fulmer to meet me . |
| 28 | Somewhere I had read that a gentleman is one who never causes pain ; perhaps I was trying to be a gentleman . |
| 29 | ‘ I had read that the knitters in Shetland Isles make all their beautiful Fair Isle garments ‘ in the round ’ — this is hand knitting , of course . |
| 30 | I had read that the knitters in the Shetland Isles make all their beautiful Fair Isle garments ‘ in the round ’ — this is hand knitting of course . |