Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up in the dome , the uncoupling of the private car had given way to speculation about whether the northern lights would oblige : the weather was right , apparently . |
| 2 | Then , after that humiliation , he had added insult to injury by saying she 'd be perfectly safe with him ! |
| 3 | The memory of the terrible moment she had come face to face with Salt rolled over her . |
| 4 | But now I had come face to face with her four days after she stood before the House of Commons and declared that there were too many hospital beds in London , and that as a result , St Bartholomew 's Hospital , along with numerous others great and small , would have to close , merge or become emasculated . |
| 5 | The poor fellow thought he had come face to face with an alien . |
| 6 | Like Hamlet , they had come face to face with its essential horror and absurdity . |
| 7 | At least once in their lives , most of these men would have met Thorfinn : more perhaps than had come face to face with King Duncan in the six years of his reign and before , when he had been prince of Cumbria in the shadow of Malcolm his grandfather . |
| 8 | On his way home , he had come face to face with the two youths with whom he had argued earlier . |
| 9 | Aylwin had been leader of the Christian Democratic Party in 1973 , when it had joined in calling on the military to intervene , but he now acknowledged that all political forces which had preferred confrontation to dialogue at that time , were responsible for creating the conditions in which human rights violations eventually took place . |
| 10 | Lawrence 's ‘ emotional dislocation of a ‘ mothercomplex ’ , discussed by Murry , was picked up by Eliot in 1931 , shortly after he had resisted return to childhood at the end of Ash-Wednesday ; in the same year he analysed Coriolanus 's infantilism and his ‘ Mother mother ’ . |