Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had intended to head back to the funicolare station but perhaps he had taken a wrong turning somewhere in his hurry to get away from Maidstone 's apartment . |
| 2 | In the end , the big woman with the cherries in her hat had dragged the now screaming child from his mother 's arms , pulling poor Edith along with her for a few steps until she had dropped sobbing on to the linoleum . |
| 3 | The time had come to splash out to the tune of forty quid a head for the eight members of his party who had travelled with him from the Forest of Arden to Sussex by the Sea . |
| 4 | Burton said that he had promised to go back to the Old Vic for £45 a week to do Hamlet , and he was sticking to it . |
| 5 | Hitherto the older waist-band had tended to slip on to the horse 's neck and either throttle him or prevent him from pulling hard ; hence the slower and less efficient ox had been generally used . |
| 6 | Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards . |
| 7 | Rostov thought about the hours which he had spent hooked up to the Naval Academy 's ACSC — Accelerated Combat Situation Computer — and grinned . |
| 8 | Alexandra had been very shy , had wanted to run out to the stables and hide , but she had had to stay , unhappy at the head of the table while all the little girls who knew each other from Christmas parties and dancing classes , from the complicated social traffic among their parents , chattered and giggled among themselves , as if she was n't there . |
| 9 | That was why Scano 's boy had risked going back to the base-man . |
| 10 | Anneliese gave him a swift sisterly kiss , then glanced across at where the guests had started drifting over to the folk singers . |
| 11 | She had meant to walk down to the sea today to greet it on her first Christmas here , her own sea , her own stretch of wild grey winter water . |
| 12 | While directors like Ken Russell and Nic Roeg carried on along their own idiosyncratic paths , and many of the directors who had flourished in the 1960s packed their bags for the trip to LA , there were no indications that those left behind had begun to face up to the economic realities of British film production , or what would have to be done to patch up the damage done to the craft of filmmaking , more particularly screenwriting , during the dead times of the 1950s and into the 1960s . |
| 13 | We had sent Johann back to the Castle of Zenda and suddenly we had a message from him . |
| 14 | By the time he had managed to crawl on to the bed , dragging such scarves as he could find to shield his eyes , for the curtains were only flimsy cotton of a summer rented house , all annoyance , all regret for the wasted day , all intentions , all straining for activity , was gone , absorbed into the panic that connected — as if there was a piston rod — his throbbing head , the lights crossing behind his eyeballs and his churning stomach . |
| 15 | Defries , Johannsen , Ace and Daak had managed to climb on to the top of the pod 's nose . |