Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crown counsel informed defence counsel of an inconsistency between the sister 's testimony and her first statement without showing him that statement or revealing that she had made a second statement confirming the first statement in that respect . |
| 2 | But the position did become clearer in various respects ; and the problems and disputes which arose were seldom so acute or threatening as they had sometimes been in the past . |
| 3 | Roland had never been much interested in Randolph Henry Ash 's vanished body ; he did not spend time visiting his house in Russell Street , or sitting where he had sat , on stone garden seats ; that was Cropper 's style . |
| 4 | Rather than concluding that I had been too radical in Opposition , I fast came to the view 1 had been too cautious . |
| 5 | Erm I came to see you a few weeks ago at night you know er It 's just like I 'm just filling up , you know , with mucus and stuff and coughing and I had er no sleep for about a week . |
| 6 | He received a letter the next day apologizing and accepting that he had not been in possession of a stolen car . |
| 7 | And seeing that someone had joined them in the chapel , he pinched Caterina 's cheek , and lightly slapping her shoulder , said aloud , ‘ Away with you , find someone else to pester . ’ |
| 8 | I remember waking up and reaching down automatically and realising that they had shaved me which was my biggest shock . |
| 9 | Mrs Healy said that she heard the girls were running and laughing like they had done in Knockglen and they were hit by a car . |
| 10 | Then Richard returned to Poitiers and from there , on 2 February , he sent envoys to his father reporting his success and announcing that he had pacified all parts of Aquitaine . |
| 11 | Now that I had this label — ‘ partially sighted ’ — and it was clear that my disability would become more acute , the teachers and girls at school found some semblance of the tolerance and understanding that they had previously lacked , and I slowly began to edge my way up the academic ladder . |
| 12 | Michael , indicating the stairs and implying that he had to go straight on , then directed him to the left , upon which he said quietly , if a trifle reproachfully : ‘ You said straight on ’ . |
| 13 | It was in the course of that initial watching and listening that she had come across Amy . |
| 14 | People were cursing the Greenhouse Effect and swearing that it had put paid to surf in Hawaii for all time . |
| 15 | He then explained that William Tidbury could not be convicted of aiding and abetting because he had not been charged with that crime . |
| 16 | Across the water , the loud hailers were blaring and squealing as they had in the winter , when Tzani-bey had caught and herded the Order . |
| 17 | Indeed it was one of the most shocking stories of police corruption and legal incompetence I had ever read , and believing that I had the ability to rectify it , I decided , whatever my other commitments , that I must bring it to public notice as soon as possible . |
| 18 | Five minutes later Tony and I were trudging through deep snow , wishing we had spared the time to search out the snow shoes and wondering whether there had ever been a previous occasion in Iceland when the approach of a car had been heralded by walkers . |
| 19 | David Pennett , on the other hand , has been admitted to the company of Notts first-teamers in no time at all , after being winnowed out of Yorkshire 's cricket academy and wondering whether he had a future in the game . |
| 20 | " There 's rules about who can ride up with the driver , " I said looking at John Russell and wondering if he had any ideas . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , we prefer to keep our relationship very private at this stage , ’ she answered the other nurse , sounding much less assured , now , to her own ears , and regretting that she had started this silly game . |
| 22 | He seemed to be considering it , as if wondering if something had been overlooked , but when he turned round , the pain in his eyes was almost too much for Melissa to bear . |
| 23 | However as late as 1668 another Roman , Mario Savioni ( c. 1608–1685 ) brought out a book of five-part Madrigali morali e spirituali , explaining that they were to be sung each at the end of one of his previously published Concerti morali and adding that he had ‘ taken care to unite together the aria and the madrigal so as to conform with the character of the concertos ’ . |
| 24 | A World Bank spokesman responded to the leak by denying that the memo in any way represented Bank policy , and adding that it had been written in a deliberately ironic tone in order to provoke internal debate within the organization . |
| 25 | His grandmother , living in luxury in the Plaza Hotel in Buenos Aires and grumbling because she had to wash her own stockings , claimed she had no money even to pay her own bills . |
| 26 | — ‘ Non , ’ Alyssia said , mastering the French word and deciding that it had a certain ring to it when used in conversation with this particular woman . |
| 27 | I remember an English don once coming to me at the end of a meeting , and saying that she had suddenly seen that evening in Jesus Christ the answer to the rather negative existentialist framework into which her life had been cast . |
| 28 | Paul wrote to Dr Heatherton as he had intended , thanking him for his trouble and saying that he had called in the hope of meeting him . |
| 29 | The Mukhabarat demanded he sign an affidavit accusing his brother of all sorts of other crimes and saying that he had always been a traitor at heart . |
| 30 | Ronald Duncan , whom I came to know about this time ( our first meeting took place when I made a bicycle tour of Cornwall in the summer of 1947 ) , spoke of having received a telegram from Eliot cancelling an engagement and saying that he had to ‘ bury a woman ’ . |