Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My candle had fallen on to a Bible on the shelf and was burning it . |
| 2 | His heavy gold rings and his bomber jacket and his wide-foot stance had added up to a man of experience in my eyes . |
| 3 | ’ Like Muir , Eliot had won through to a vision of final acceptance , which allowed him to look back even to Sweeney and to call him , at Columbia in 1958 , ‘ friend ’ . |
| 4 | I wanted to do the things John and I had looked forward to a year and a half ago , to travel as we had planned , to work abroad , have a family before too long . |
| 5 | He had looked forward to a day in the sun , the simple admiration of colleagues , young scientists . |
| 6 | There was nothing revealing about Culley 's pause — the surprise was genuine , as if Sanchez had come straight to a point that Culley had intended to arrive at slowly . |
| 7 | Business had come almost to a standstill and the newspaper was adversely affected to an increasing degree . |
| 8 | They had turned on to a side-road now . |
| 9 | But by nineteen ninety one , that had turned in to a deficit of a hundred million and one prediction suggests the deficit would have widened dramatically to six hundred and forty million pounds by the end of the decade . |
| 10 | He looked up into Grandson Richard 's huge face and , trying to make his voice as deep and slow as possible , said the only word any nome had said directly to a human in five thousand years . |
| 11 | On 14 December 1991 , the south-southeast-trending fracture widened ( maximum extension by April 1992 , 1.5m ) , lava was erupted close to the summit , and by 15 December activity had moved down to a site 2,400m a.s.l. where the fracture intersects the western cliff wall of the Valle del Bove . |
| 12 | Sitting in the dreary Independence Hotel in Tehran late at night , McFarlane fuming in his room , the rest of the party had got on to a conversation about radars . |
| 13 | It was almost as small as the circle of names and acquaintances of the average senior civil servant , and was reduced further by the fact that once they had got on to a board , many businessmen rapidly came to resent the amount of time the job demanded . |
| 14 | But we had got on to a subject I do happen to know something about . |
| 15 | Miller 's career in management had got off to a whirlwind start . |
| 16 | Crisp had slowed almost to a trot , but still it seemed that he might hold on . |
| 17 | The two of them had slowed almost to a stop , and the other delegates were streaming past them towards the relaxation of the Seraglio . |
| 18 | Earlier in the year fittingly , during Passover , the festival which celebrates the Israelites ' escape from Egypt and the beginning of the journey which eventually took them to the Promised Land — Rabbi Moishe announced with quiet satisfaction that their contributions had mounted up to a sum sufficient to buy three hundred dunams of land in Palestine , that the purchase was in the process of being arranged on their behalf by the Jewish National Fund , and that he himself would lead an advance party of settlers from Cork before the end of 1920 . |
| 19 | All because it had ventured on to a lake where models were banned . |
| 20 | The day before his father 's return , he had driven out to a lake some ten miles from the town ; it was deserted and half frozen , and he had walked round it , finding that the fresh air cleared his head and that ideas came fast in the silence of the woods . |
| 21 | He had not realized that the boundaries of the black hole according to the two definitions would be the same , and hence so would their areas , provided the black hole had settled down to a state in which it was not changing with time . |
| 22 | Meanwhile Giovanna 's immense husband had waddled off to a patch of rough grass in which he hunted until he found a small metal square . |
| 23 | He had gone on to a party at a rich woman 's house , he explained , and seen a display of drinks such as he had never seen on earth before . |
| 24 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |
| 25 | Mark 's voice had trailed away to a whisper . |
| 26 | He also disclosed that US officials had reacted positively to a proposal by Sharif on June 6 , that the USA , the Soviet Union and China should mediate bilateral talks on nuclear non-proliferation between India and Pakistan . |
| 27 | ‘ You recollect the gossip that was rife at the time — that he had run away to a monastery ? ’ |
| 28 | All the children , except Millie , scrambled from the room : she had staggered over to a side wall and was leaning against it , her hands hanging by her side , her mouth wide open to let her gasping breath free . |
| 29 | A British doctor , Pauline Cutting , had returned home to a heroine 's welcome and was featured on several front pages . |
| 30 | Coun Dixon ( Lab ) said the borough council had paid up to a week 's salary in overtime in November and December last year for officers patrolling shops on Sundays . |