Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wished that I had written to the two women about Donald 's death , and that I was not now obliged to tell them of it . |
| 2 | In fact , within two years I had gone to the other extreme , washing shorts for lads who were old enough to do it for themselves , and baking cakes for the sole purpose of giving them away . |
| 3 | It was as though I had died to the old way — and yet I was alive in a new kind of way . |
| 4 | ‘ I had got to the front door when it exploded on top of me . |
| 5 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
| 6 | Yes , I had come to the right place : thejumbo |
| 7 | I mean if I 'd have if I 'd have , if I had come to the last one |
| 8 | She appeared to experience a return of an old symptom in the form of fear of cancer — her father had died of a particularly virulent from of rectal cancer which had metastasised to the spinal cord and brain and she had periodically experienced intense fear that she would die similarly . |
| 9 | The applicants in the main proceedings observed in limine that ( a ) 36 of their 95 fishing vessels were part of the United Kingdom fleet during the period 1973 to 1978 ( the reference period for the allocation of the quotas which were introduced in January 1983 ) ; ( b ) 85 of those 95 vessels were registered and in use as British fishing vessels by January 1983 , and ( c ) of those 85 vessels , 42 had always been British flag vessels and 43 were ex-Spanish flag boats which had transferred to the British flag before 1983 . |
| 10 | Listing the institutions which had contributed to the lamentable performance of ‘ UK plc ’ , Morgan went on to lambast Oxford University ( ‘ dons caught in a timewarp ’ ) , the Church of England ( ‘ the enterprise culture is an alien concept to the established Church ’ ) , and Whitehall ( ‘ our vast body of state employees who do not have to worry where the next pay cheque is coming from ’ ) . |
| 11 | It had been this problem which had led to the complex arrangements for picking up Ruggiero on his release . |
| 12 | It was the war which had led to the great increase in government patronage and hence also the potential for Court influence , and this was by and large a Whig war . |
| 13 | They were panicking as it was their lack of observation which had led to the two getting away unseen . |
| 14 | Whereas similar protests in December 1986 ( which had led to the eventual abandonment of a programme backed by the International Monetary Fumd ( IMF ) — see p. 34923 ) had focused only on economic grievances , discontent now extended to the role of Kaunda himself and to the entrenched position of the ruling United National Independence Party ( UNIP ) as the sole legal party . |
| 15 | The University of Edinburgh has come late and abruptly to these changes , its collective mind concentrated by the need to change planning systems which had led to the sudden emergence of large , recurring deficits . |
| 16 | This is made easier by the shift in the ideological climate discussed earlier , since to be too soft on those convicted would be to prolong the permissive trend which had led to the high crime levels and the chronic economic problems . |
| 17 | Of the industrialists given peerages by Mrs ( oops , sorry , Baroness ) Thatcher during her 11 years in control of the system , seven out of ten were from private sector companies which had donated to the Conservative Party . |
| 18 | The country in the south had been really weird , with mushrooms of crumbling lava and wide flat rivers to cross , and it had rained for days , which had added to the general air of unreality as these features kept emerging from the mist . |
| 19 | Her own attraction to Matthew she had pushed to the outermost edges of her consciousness . |
| 20 | Driving along the Quay , Lucy thought about that morning when she had gone to the little bistro on the Place de Trainant to find Volkov . |
| 21 | Yesterday she had gone to the dingy little newsagent at the corner of the street to pay the paper bill , and to buy Matey a writing pad and envelopes , when she had seen on the counter a pile of postcards depicting society beauties . |
| 22 | He cared enough about his loathsome , drunken and violent third wife , Mayo Methot , not to leave her until he knew she had gone to the furthest extremes to try and cure herself of the alcoholism that threatened to ruin both their lives . |
| 23 | In order to liven their party up , she had gone to the United Social Club in Green Street to find more guests . |
| 24 | Shortly after her move abroad she had written to the then Director of Manchester City Art Gallery , Tim Clifford , asking if she could view some of the Museum 's early nineteenth-century cotton samples and take photographs . |
| 25 | DONATION — Pauline was pleased to report that she had written to the National Westminster Bank Sponsorship and Community Affairs Dept. and received a donation of £500 to the Society . |
| 26 | Kit Hegarty was in the big front bedroom , the one she had let to the two brothers from Galway . |
| 27 | He knew all about unhappiness : she had come to the right place . |
| 28 | It was as if she had come to the wrong place , as if the magic that shrivelled Cinderella 's full satins to limp rag had breathed over this place , enchantment vanished in the wood , only the old dank trees still and always there . |
| 29 | Merrill paused for a moment , wondering if she had come to the wrong address . |
| 30 | Then she saw that , in her haste to leave the hall , she had fled to the nearest exit , which opened on to a passage running along the side of the great-room . |