Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [conj] this [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The English climate , having given its clients a long series of warm sunny days , had decided that this must be paid for . |
| 2 | The foresters attached the forest dwellers every year if their dogs were not lawed , although the Charter of the Forest had promised that this should be done only every three years . |
| 3 | For a moment she had thought that this might be DeVore 's final little game with her , but now she knew . |
| 4 | Everybody had thought that this would be the best idea since bringing back the death penalty . |
| 5 | Zen had imagined that this would be a rarity , but in fact four of the cars in the garage had one odd tyre . |
| 6 | When I was held hostage she went to see him , and she had hoped that this would be a private , quiet meeting . |
| 7 | Darwin himself had warned that this might be an impossible task , given the enormous gaps in the fossil record , which left little or no evidence for the exact course of many transitions . |