Example sentences of "he had [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fervent supporter of Home Rule , he had converted to the Roman Catholic faith . |
| 2 | On March 26 Noubir Amaoui , secretary-general of the Democratic Confederation of Labour ( CDT ) — a trade union grouping close to the opposition Socialist Union of Popular Forces ( USFP ) — was arrested at the CDT offices in Casablanca in connection with an interview he had given to the Spanish newspaper El País on March 11 . |
| 3 | 1–3–1859 The Convener read the following letter from Claud McFie Esquire with reference to a donation of £400 which he had given to the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund and a like sum to the Supplementary Sustentation Fund and in reference to which he reserved power to demand the interest during his life ; that he was anxious to promote the prosperity of the new Church of Bowmore in Islay , and now desired to appropriate the interest of the latter sum for five years , for that charge , and on this being complied with he gave up for that period his claim for the interest of the former sum , viz £400 , to the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund . |
| 4 | The King , understandably enough , did not thank Asquith for implying that he would deviate from the role of strict constitutionality by denying to Labour what he had given to the other parties . |
| 5 | A copy of a paper he had given to the British Association on ‘ The car of the future ’ led to his being summoned to Detroit , and to a commission to design and build it . |
| 6 | He made a series of trips to Algeria reminiscent of those that he had made to the French provinces in the autumn of 1944 . |
| 7 | Accompanied by a number of his key allies , he had travelled to the southern SEZs in January to launch his counteroffensive [ see pp. 38722 ; 38764 ] . |
| 8 | In the interval he had travelled to the extreme Left wing of English politics at that time , and swung back again to the Right with vigour and determination . |
| 9 | He had crept to the very edge of the wood to watch it and while he was there had heard the faint sound of hooves on stones and occasional voices . |
| 10 | He had gone to the big one and he wandered about his two in his legs . |
| 11 | He should go to the public source and get it : or , at any rate , not be in a better position than if he had gone to the public source . |
| 12 | Fran exchanged pleasantries with her , curbing her impatience before finally asking if she knew where Luke had gone , and went weak with relief when the other woman informed her that he had gone to the old college . |
| 13 | After a sex attack two years earlier he had said to the 40-year-old spinster that ‘ If you call the police I 'll kill you ’ . |
| 14 | I had drifted into caddying , much to the disgust of my father who had other ideas about careers for his eldest son and heir whom he had sent to the best public school he could afford ( a slightly philistine , second-division one near Brighton ) and supported through university ( Sussex-by-the-Sea ) . |
| 15 | When my father tired of the pretence involved in this relationship ( for he was n't as weak as they had tacitly agreed ) he had hastened to the other extreme and married a woman who , as my mother was fond of remarking , you could pour into a jug . |
| 16 | Applying Phipps he would have been guilty if he had drove to the agreed destination and then driven to his true destination . |
| 17 | He would never , if he had taken to the high seas in past centuries , have been caught napping by a mutiny . |
| 18 | He said that he had outlined to the Chinese leadership Japan 's four-point overseas development aid policy , which linked aid to the recipient 's military spending , its arms imports and exports and its human rights situation . |
| 19 | We know that Lethieullier was also interested in anatomy , for in 1734 he had offered to the Royal Society three infants preserved in spirit , ‘ … of which one Elizabeth Baggs , a hard labouring woman in Oxford , was delivered at one birth in 1714 ’ and who lived for but a few hours afterwards . |
| 20 | The father was distraught ; he had appealed to the Prime Minister , had been to see the Foreign Secretary , he had been in fact everywhere , and finally asked Max Rayne whether he could come to see me . |
| 21 | In any event he came to see me and we discussed the matter , and I said exactly that to him : that if he had appealed to the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary , it seemed to me a very remote prospect that anything I could do would be of the slightest effect . |
| 22 | Shortly after the agreement in late February 1939 , he wrote to Jacques indicating the importance he had attached to the negotiated agreement with the Cambridge Board : |
| 23 | He was pretty sure he had come to the right restaurant . |
| 24 | He knew he had come to the right person . |
| 25 | When he reached the corner of the Whitechapel Road he was n't sure he had come to the right place . |
| 26 | He had come to the banqueting hall in order to have a look at the river from the roof ; the river had risen and widened so much that the entire countryside seemed to be sliding past and one felt as if one were standing on the deck of a ship . |
| 27 | I went to see Eric to tell him about this conversation and found that he had come to the same conclusion . |
| 28 | When Geoff came into the staff room on the alcohol problems unit I assumed he had come to the wrong ward . |
| 29 | He had agreed to the live radio interview readily enough , probably expecting it to run the course of a dozen or so others he 'd done over the past couple of years . |
| 30 | ( Rebel sources reported that he had fled to the southern port of Kismayu , with the aim of entering Kenya , which had promised him safe conduct . |