Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pron] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Justice Watkins criticised the legislation and doubted whether Parliament had intended it to apply to the housing of immigrants . |
| 2 | ‘ They 'd shrivel up like walnuts , ’ she said to Karen , who had joined her to wash off the debris of the laughing fit . |
| 3 | He watched her walk away without speaking and enter the hall again ; he had expected her to come to the table to supervise Mary packing up the food . |
| 4 | He had expected everybody to abide by the rules he had applied to his own life . |
| 5 | Very few had considered what to do about the care management-care programming interface but then this is at least partly a problem for health authorities . |
| 6 | Clavell says that King Rat had freed him to write about the Far East . |
| 7 | I wondered whether it was because neither of them had stirred herself to go through the contortions attendant upon attracting men , but it was n't that . |
| 8 | ‘ It is that hard , ’ he said ominously , and I thought of John Maggovertski 's sadness for a pretty girl who had whored herself to pay for the white powder . |
| 9 | Several times , Gedge had persuaded him to stay with the band when he had become disgruntled and ‘ warnings ’ had not been given because he ostensibly wanted to leave anyway . |
| 10 | Tammuz had told her to relax into the fire , swim with it , let go . |
| 11 | From what her mother had told her the experience would be horrendous and she had cried herself to sleep for the past week thinking about it . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , there are clear signs of the continued exemption of Hitler from blame and the belief — as it happens not altogether misplaced in this particular case — that he had had nothing to do with the ‘ action ’ and would disapprove of it . |
| 13 | It was clear he had had nothing to do with the assassination attempt . |
| 14 | The reason she 'd been so reluctant for Alexander Vass to leave had had nothing to do with the man himself . |
| 15 | Pietro had finally agreed to Zen 's presence , on condition that there was no contact until the pay-off actually began , so during the intervening forty-eight hours he had had nothing to do with the case beyond having the ransom money photographed to record the serial numbers and finalizing the arrangements for collecting Ruggiero when he was released . |
| 16 | It had had nothing to do with the past and everything to do with him wanting to oust her from her home . |
| 17 | That was what it was , a fit , during which something in her burst and she lost control of herself — or perhaps it had had something to do with the terrible heat . |
| 18 | If he had had anything to do with the way Judi died , then she wanted him to suffer as much as possible . |
| 19 | Women in this situation had an important role and training had helped them to manage during the husband 's absence . |
| 20 | The Contraalmirante had invited her to dine at the C-in-C 's residence . |
| 21 | These last few months of building a new identity had enabled him to relax for the first time in years . |
| 22 | Although the " offices " might be peripatetic , going outside Rome with the pope , and although the pope might still play a dominant personal part , only a total reversal of policy — an annihilation of the authority the papacy had set itself to achieve during the previous 150 years — could have stemmed the march towards authority and central administrative offices . |
| 23 | Er doctor says not only was the taxing officer right in what he did , but he should of gone further and as I say he should of erm disallowed more interest , the basis of which erm doctor puts forward that submission before me seems to be two fold , first he points out that in fact the plaintiffs failed to perfect the order of Mr Justice er , er sorry Mr Justice erm , until the twenty fifth of May nineteen ninety three and that was a , I think he would say a probable failure on part of the plaintiffs and their solicitors to do with what his solicitor had asked them to do in the letter of the twenty third of April nineteen ninety one . |
| 24 | He has changed his mind , belittling the flimsy premise which had led him to stay in the city . |
| 25 | Or , perhaps , it had the meaning he had wanted it to have from the beginning : the meaning that had kept him out of coups led by others . |
| 26 | However , now was not the time to probe into his previous daydreams , and before anything further could be said a shout came from Matt , who had left them to attend to the fire burning beneath the two billies of water which hung from an iron bar . |
| 27 | It reached a point where a number of people 's art collections began to be more valuable than the businesses that had allowed them to buy in the first place . ’ |
| 28 | The Germans had allowed us to walk between the huts until midnight . |
| 29 | She had forced him to live against the grain of his own nature which was weak and pleasure-loving and stubborn with it , so that when she beat him for laziness or lying , he became more determinedly idle and sullen . |
| 30 | In the war the Germans had forced him to live in the village . |