Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These divisions were based around the old tribal territories to some extent , but absorbed many of the smaller tribes and lands that had previously belonged to tribes hostile to the Unberogens . |
| 2 | Drunk one day , driving her on his Harley , he slammed into a house that had once belonged to Jack London . |
| 3 | Twenty-odd years ago Michael Stewart owned a Facel Vega that had once belonged to Ringo Starr . |
| 4 | That round , soft face with its clear blue eyes and straight nose , those small , pretty hands , the plump frame swathed in shawls , all that had actually gone to Afghanistan 60 years ago , had taken part in the adventure that had provided the myth and the burden of Alexandra 's childhood . |
| 5 | The Left , like most people in Britain , had been brought up to regard Britain as a world power and had not adjusted to Britain 's real weakness . |
| 6 | They might not dare to admit it , but they did n't like the changes they saw around them ; they enjoyed television 's recreations of more confident times , when they had had a country to be proud of , when people had reached maturity at forty and had not pandered to youth . |
| 7 | He went sick in September and had not returned to work since . |
| 8 | He went sick in September and had not returned to work since . |
| 9 | Before the War , he had visited Europe , worked in the kitchen of a London hotel , and had then gone to Moscow . |
| 10 | She had cleared for Antwerp , where she spent a couple of days , and had then gone to West Africa , calling at several ports before returning to Antwerp . |
| 11 | Mrs Knelle 's boy had attended a similar boarding school to the Cistercian college , and had then gone to Maynooth , a prestigious Dublin seminary for priests . |
| 12 | She had embraced Simon , patting his face and exclaiming over his bruised eye , and had then flown to Isabel , taking her in her arms and weeping over her enough , so her husband had said , to raise the level of the lake . |
| 13 | The only clue so far discovered of any value to a possible dating of his return is the fact that , according to Bursali Mehmed Tahir , there exists a copy of one of his most famous works , the written in his own hand , presented to Mehmed II , and dated 878/1473–4 it would not thus be unreasonable to suppose that Molla Husrev wrote the copy especially for Mehmed II , this in turn suggesting that by 878 Molla Husrev had made up his quarrel with the sultan and had perhaps returned to Istanbul . |
| 14 | Alyson , of Hazel Court , Middlesbrough , said she had had minor illnesses , but had always gone to school . |