Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] [conj] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | One foggy night she lost her way and had to grope along the bank for some way finally realising that she had circled round and returned to the Halling side by mistake . |
| 2 | One of them had broken away and appeared to be attempting to struggle upwind . |
| 3 | From her student days Pavlova was fired by stories of her legendary predecessor Marie Taglioni , who had travelled widely and appeared to great acclaim in St Petersburg during the 1837–9 seasons . |
| 4 | We went in December and most of the indigenous population had curled up and gone to sleep . |
| 5 | On the day I spoke to him , his wizened granite-faced skipper Kepler Wessels ( who is almost the antithesis of Rhodes ) had sat down and spoken to the 22-year-old from Natal about his game . |
| 6 | Jacob had rung instantly and spoken to the man who now sat opposite him . |
| 7 | Up until then , the Mason , who had jumped from in front of the stage on to it , had gibbered indecisively and looked to Garvey for salvation . |
| 8 | ‘ If they had turned round and said to me , ‘ That 's a good idea , why do n't you do it for us here ? ’ |
| 9 | She had said , ‘ Better luck next time , Andrew , ’ and had turned about and walked to the door . |
| 10 | After they had been photographed , after the scene of crime team had swarmed in and over them , after the police surgeon and then a pathologist had done all that had to be done in that room , the bodies still stayed where they were . |
| 11 | Her new husband 's job required a move south , and in 1985 Marian left the practice she had built up and moved to Sussex . |
| 12 | A little group of men had got together and appeared to be trying to enlist others into a formation of some kind . |
| 13 | Mew found the fire had gone out and blew to 76 for 145 . |
| 14 | The appellant had used offensive language to a 12 year old girl who had run home and complained to her father . |
| 15 | Who had fought only when driven to it , and withdrawn as soon as he could . |