About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton(nb..).
puhekieltä Used to form the pluperfect tense, expressing a completed action in the past (+ past participle).
2011, Ben Cooper, The Guardian, 15 April:
Cooper seems an odd choice, but imagine if they had taken MTV's advice and chosen Robert Pattinson?
puhekieltä As past subjunctive: ‘would have’.
1499, (w), The Bowge of Courte:
To holde myne honde, by God, I had grete payne; / For forthwyth there I had him slayne, / But that I drede mordre wolde come oute(nb..).
(RQ:Flr Mntgn Essay), II.4:
Julius Cæsarhad escaped death, if going to the Senate-house, that day wherein he was murthered by the Conspirators, he had read a memorial which was presented unto him.
1849, (w), In Memoriam, 24:
If all was good and fair we met, / This earth had been the Paradise / It never look’d to human eyes / Since our first Sun arose and set.