Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [to-vb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plane had started to shudder as it entered some turbulence , and Myeloski was startled by it . |
| 2 | She knew that she had pushed her dreadful experience away , had refused to be broken , had tried to pretend that it had never happened . |
| 3 | Mildred held out her arm to see if it had begun to reappear but it had n't . |
| 4 | He had opened the 1961 claret for them because that was the wine he and Dom had chosen to drink and it had n't occurred to him to offer his guests less . |
| 5 | As the DTI had failed to act when it had known of irregularities within the firm , did not the Government have a moral obligation towards the dupes ? |