Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Papa and Mama , informed , were coming over , the lawyers had gathered to draw up the marriage settlement , everything seemed set fair . |
| 2 | did not accept that the Vice-Chancellor in Cloverbay had intended to lay down a rule that no order could be made under section 236 if the purpose for which the office-holder claimed reasonably to require information sought included obtaining information the receipt of which would go beyond a reconstitution of knowledge which the company once had and was entitled in law to possess . |
| 3 | Haymarket had intended to set up a computer business with over 20 staff to build its own PCs under the brand Eyecon and sell them through a dealer network . |
| 4 | ITTO had intended to build up a consensus towards achieving full sustainability in tropical forestry by the year 2000 . |
| 5 | ‘ Wow , I 'm glad you called , man , ’ said Hopper who thought his friend had telephoned to patch up a quarrel they 'd had before Fonda left for Canada . |
| 6 | The visiting pilots had come to ferry back a score of U.S. fighter aircraft flown up from the States as part of the American lend-lease programme . |
| 7 | This had to be her mother 's bed , she surmised , and the doctor had forgotten to draw back the curtains . |
| 8 | I thought the doctor had forgotten to draw back the curtain , and I was just about to do it when I heard his voice . |
| 9 | In April 1945 , Truman 's government played host to representatives from 50 countries at San Francisco who had met to draw up the Charter for the United Nations . |
| 10 | Reports in early March had indicated that the IAEA had sought to play down the significance of a recent report submitted to the UN in which it was claimed that Iraq was offering " better co-operation " to IAEA inspectors . |
| 11 | The hijackers , who had threatened to blow up the aircraft , surrendered to Thai authorities in the early hours of Oct. 7 ; none of the 79 passengers or four crew was injured . |
| 12 | They had threatened to blow up the plane unless their demands for the release of political prisoners were met , but the deadline of 6pm passed without incident . |
| 13 | The restoration of the monarchy , he said , would bring back the communism and anarchy which had threatened to take over the country before the Civil War . |
| 14 | In the meantime various troubles had flared up throughout the world -America had become involved in Korea ; France was involved in both Algiers ( who were seeking independence ) and Indo-China ; whilst Britain became involved in retaliation against the Egyptian government which had threatened to take over the Suez Canal . |
| 15 | Just before that vote Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats , the junior coalition partner , had reached agreement on tax reforms which had been the subject of three months of negotiation and which had threatened to bring down the government . |
| 16 | Doctors had decided to carry out a forceps delivery on her mother 15 year old Sally Taylor after a long labour . |
| 17 | Also in January I reported that the Queen had decided to give up the bottle . |
| 18 | It was also reported that the Governor of Sokoto had decided to take up the issue with the federal authorities in Lagos . |
| 19 | Albert Popple had decided to go down the Lamb and Flag after walking round the block several times . |
| 20 | As the long-running show begins its final series tonight , TODAY had decided to send out a reconnaissance party to see how the real Nouvion — the name was chosen by in Nouvion writers Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft sticking a pin into a map of France — lived up to its TV image . |
| 21 | Although I had decided to have neither a healer nor a counsellor , I had , in earlier weeks when feeling positive , made gentle , tentative enquiries . |
| 22 | She wished she had decided to come home a month earlier , even two days earlier . |
| 23 | However , by the end of May , the Russian government had decided to pull out the troops . |
| 24 | The USA had moved to send out the invitations only after the Israelis and the Arabs had failed to agree on a time and venue . |
| 25 | He had offered to top up the money he had given her before by another twenty pounds and she had accepted with polite reluctance . |
| 26 | The artillery officer wondered why no one had thought to blow up the bridge which crossed the River Sambre in the centre of the town , but he supposed there must be fords close to Charleroi which would have made the destruction of the fine stone bridge into a futile and even petulant gesture . |
| 27 | When Boyd was a child of eight , he and his father had had to sit out a tornado while visiting a German friend who had settled in Kansas . |
| 28 | ( God , or the Deity , existed because somebody had had to work out the mathematics in the first place . ) |
| 29 | Her exhausted captain had had to hand over the wheel to Arthur and for eight days he was scarcely relieved . |
| 30 | Six inches of concrete , luckily not too dense , had been used to top off whatever he had used to fill in the excavation . |