Example sentences of "had [verb] [pers pn] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His reason for wanting to go , he said , was because ‘ I had heard it was for charity and I knew Elton John . |
| 2 | The yellow silk square that Steve had given him was in his back pocket ; eight boxes of buckshot in each saddlebag ; binoculars in his combat jacket ; two rolls of inch-wide parcel tape ; fifty feet of light line ; steel hammer and hall a dozen steel spikes ; spare combat jacket and two pairs of jungle trousers ; for night work , black cotton roll-neck , black tracksuit bottoms and black cotton gloves ; slacks and a light jumper for Mariana . |
| 3 | The passport that the Colonel had given him was in the inside pocket of his anorak . |
| 4 | He also liked to remind him that the first time he had seen him was during the military parade in Cairo to celebrate Kuhammad Rea 's marriage to Princes Fawzia in 1939 . " |
| 5 | The last time she had seen it was in Elise 's studio . |
| 6 | On July 5 the Sudanese news agency , Suna , reported that President of the secessionist republic , Abdel-Rahman Ahmed Ali , had said he was in daily contact with the USC and that " we believe that the Somali nation is one " . |
| 7 | The pathologist had said it was at this stage impossible to give an opinion but the report also said the police were treating the case as murder . |
| 8 | Someone had said she was like an Abyssinian cat and so she was . |
| 9 | There were conflabs in the typing pool and that bossy Marianne going importantly round to areas she normally never trespassed in and June — had felt it was on account of her . |
| 10 | Moreover , Cézanne had felt he was respecting the laws of traditional , scientific perspective . |
| 11 | Sometimes , in fact , she had felt she was in danger of neglecting the rest of her pupils for though her voice continued to drone on , snapping out an instruction here , a correction there , she was in reality watching Paula out of the corner of her eye , and experiencing the same excitement of discovery that she had felt on the day when Paula had first walked into her office . |
| 12 | Christopher Court , MP , had no difficulty in getting straight through on the telephone to Chief Superintendent Coffin once he had decided it was to him he wished to speak . |
| 13 | He had thought they were at least speaking to one another privately , but if Jim had really sworn an affidavit he must have been listening on another telephone . |
| 14 | God , she had thought she was above that sort of thing , once . |
| 15 | She had thought she was in love with Giles , but he had never aroused this heady excitement in her , or made her skin tingle when he came anywhere near . |
| 16 | And now they were in town , and she had to assume they were after her . |
| 17 | He insisted that he had and that the officer to whom he had dictated it was on duty controlling crowds outside the courtroom door . |
| 18 | And the next thing he know he remembers he 's hanging upside down with a half feet around his the chain had slipped 't was round his ankle and he was hanging upside down in the dark twenty feet from the ground . |
| 19 | The man who had greeted her was on the deck of his boat cleaning something . |
| 20 | They had known they were on the knife edge , and interest rates had been at 8 per cent . |
| 21 | If he had known I was on the stage , he 'd have murdered me . |
| 22 | But Pardy had known he was in a crowded place and that animals were involved which might very well react with panic at his action . |
| 23 | Carrington was lying on his bunk , fully clothed , and he told himself afterwards that he had known she was outside his cabin before she touched the handle . |
| 24 | And yet somebody had known she was worth kidnapping , somebody had checked on her financial position and her daily movements , probably over a long period . |
| 25 | They were her protectors , older , stronger , more clever and brave , and yet they had assumed it was for her to say what they were to do . |
| 26 | Shocked old-guard MPs , who had imagined they were in cushy seats for life , suddenly found Right-Ons dominating their constituency parties with a potent mixture of brow-beating and attrition . |
| 27 | After Luke and then Maggie had left for London there were still enough people to dull the heartache and emptiness but now that all the girls had gone it was as if the whole house had been cleaned . |
| 28 | Once the sense of the ridiculous had begun it was like waves gathering into a crescendo . |
| 29 | She had confided she was in love with someone else , but he did n't believe her . |