Example sentences of "had [verb] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was hardly room for the two of them , let alone for Georgiades , who followed them in but had to remain stuck in the doorway . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He had intended to put in an hour 's fishing but there was an impatience which he could not appease by the sport and so he turned aside into the fields which took him across towards Portinscale . |
| 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 | You 'll find in our newspapers many signs of a extraordinary mental instability leading to terrible deeds ( that theological student who killed a girl he had arranged to meet in a shed , and who was arrested a hour later eating his breakfast — and so on ) . |
| 6 | Norman , however , recollects that at first Minton did not take it very seriously ; but one evening , when the two men had arranged to meet in a pub before going to the opera , Norman arrived late , having spent the afternoon with Henrietta , and realised on seeing Minton that he had begun to feel left out . |
| 7 | Opposition groups claimed , however , that the government had halted voting in areas where the Parti démocratique gabonais ( PDG ) ( until recently the ruling and sole legal party — see p. 37445 ) appeared close to defeat . |
| 8 | The inflatable boat we had heard had in fact transported the drugs ashore and ferried out food and fuel . |
| 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 | Now suddenly she could feel the pleasure such imaginings had aroused uncurling in a warm spiral in the pit of her stomach . |
| 11 | The old by-streets now swarmed with passengers and vehicles of every kind ; the new streets that had stopped disheartened in the mud and wagon-ruts , formed towns within themselves , originating wholesome comforts and conveniences belonging to themselves , and never tried nor thought of until they sprung into existence . |
| 12 | It landed six inches from my face and before it had stopped quivering in the ground , a red one slapped down next to it . |
| 13 | By the 1930s she had stopped dancing in the line ; there was hardly time in her schedule , but she and her sister Mabel would sometimes perform a fan dance duet in cine-variety bills . |
| 14 | In the smithy house at Dull , Jean Bruce hail lain silently under the covers until her four little sisters and brothers had stopped fidgeting in the oppressive atmosphere and her parents had started to snore . |
| 15 | ‘ Leo actually had to go to work in a pair of my knickers , ’ Emma said . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And there , instead of the omelette and the glass of wine which we had expected to swallow in a nervous hurry , we found the Restaurant La Camarguaise serving a well-chosen and properly cooked and comforting meal in a clean and high-ceilinged dining-room . |
| 18 | A rector was , in her view , part of the traditional and comic cast list she had expected to find in the country , along with the squire and the village idiot . |
| 19 | Several respondents commented that both foster parents and children had enjoyed participating in an exercise which provided them with concrete proof of achievements and which sought to monitor progress systematically . |
| 20 | Her response had been a spate of anxious letters which he had let accumulate in his locker . |
| 21 | It had sat trembling in his hand , its brown eyes full of the same terror he saw now in Ann 's . |
| 22 | She was now all amiability — a quality none of them had looked to discover in her . |
| 23 | He was encouraged to assume this double burden by Arthur Ponsonby , the younger brother of Fritz , who after nine years in the Diplomatic Service had resigned to sit in the Commons as a Liberal ; finding his colleagues inadequately radical , Ponsonby had then joined the Labour Party and in January 1924 was installed at the Prime Minister 's elbow as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs . |
| 24 | She had come dressed in pink , inevitably . |
| 25 | Sheila was a Scots girl who had come to live in England . |
| 26 | She had gone through rather a bad patch since she had come to live in the banqueting hall . |
| 27 | Melanie had been told they had come to live in a great city but found herself again in a village , a grey one . |
| 28 | Half by desipience , half by proclivity , he had come to live in a world where the only significant leisure activities were coupling and consuming . |
| 29 | She suspected that Mark was thinking of the West Indians who had come to live in the parish and of course that was very right . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , now that he had come to live in this new house he was aware that he would probably be an object of interest to his neighbours . |