Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [adv] [verb] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shamed Roman Catholic cleric wrote a heart-rending letter to the parents of his mistress , teacher Monika Kocanek , who had just given birth to baby Jennifer . |
| 2 | A POLICEMAN was slashed with a knife when he tried to arrest a man who had just set fire to a £9,000 Volvo car , Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 3 | A POLICEMAN was slashed with a knife when he tried to arrest a man who had just set fire to a £9,000 Volvo car , Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 4 | And worse , we had recently found it necessary to replace two of the three giggling girls who had sadly fallen victim to the Spanish flu epidemic , and sack the third for incompetence . |
| 5 | Wittikind , who had not sworn fealty to Charles , had returned from his exile in Denmark to arouse his countrymen and a huge Saxon host had attacked the fort at Karlstadt , taking revenge for the destruction of the sacred Irminsul and Charles ' other ravages of Saxony . |
| 6 | He continued his studies in France at the Royal Garden of Plants in Paris under Joseph Pitton de Tournefort , a French botanist who had already made expeditions to Spain , Greece and Asia Minor , and later produced a new classification of plants , accompanied by descriptions of the genera . |
| 7 | There were the embusqués , who had somehow dodged the war , and the profiteers who had already amassed sizeable fortunes ( from which they were rapidly enriching the restaurateurs and the jewellers , who had never known business to be better ) . |
| 8 | She had the sad and deflated appearance of somebody who had once lived life to the full but now had only the memories of such times to sustain her — like a galleon whose sails sag limply round the masts where once they have billowed majestically . |