Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv prt] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a moment he had jumped on to the horse 's back . |
| 2 | The attendant , now adding a sulk to his sullenness , had shuffled off to the kitchen area . |
| 3 | It was a day much like today , hot and sunny , but unlike today there were no tourists about and Dave and I had stripped off to the skin and stepped through the shallows with mud squidging between our toes to the pebbly beach , swimming out into the cool water . |
| 4 | He had fastened on to the fact that she was a Connor , played on memories of her father 's reputation for throwing races . |
| 5 | Elvis had travelled back to the dawn of mankind and persuaded God to let him do it his way . |
| 6 | There was to be no repetition of the disaster two years previously in 1896 , when a crowd in excess of 60,000 had spilled on to the pitch . |
| 7 | In the middle of her outbursts , she noticed that the paperweight had fallen on to the desk , badly marking the surface . |
| 8 | The purple book , which had fallen on to the floor during the night , jogged his memory . |
| 9 | Rocks had fallen on to the road , cutting off the way forward . |
| 10 | The fat man over to his right had leaned down to the floor . |
| 11 | Aggie had taken her hat and coat off and had dropped on to the settle , and as he entered the room she said immediately , ‘ Somethin' will have to be … ’ but paused as Millie came in on Ben 's heels , and she nodded towards her saying , ‘ Go and take your things off and set the tray . ’ |
| 12 | I flung the sporting pistol I had looted on to the back seat , relieved to think I would never have to defend myself with it . |
| 13 | In common with some other contributors to Essays in Criticism he had come around to the view that the object of English should be to develop in students a " trained mind " rather than to produce " literary critics " or even " good readers " . |
| 14 | He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post . |
| 15 | Five or six young boys had come over to the fire with some scraps of meat and sections of cleaned intestine that they skewered with s ticks and laid on the embers to roast . |
| 16 | That she had always been in control before he had come on to the scene and turned everything upside-down . |
| 17 | I had surely noticed that nearly all the ingredients had come on to the train fresh ? |
| 18 | At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed . |
| 19 | Meanwhile one of the adjacent houses on Clifton Park Road had come on to the market and School had bought it . |
| 20 | Miss Foley was ready to go now and had come up to the desk to clear his out tray . |
| 21 | It was n't just today the boy had come up to the wood but yesterday as well . |
| 22 | They had come up to the Buraimi for the men to look for better opportunities . |
| 23 | But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man . |
| 24 | She had come back to the nursery ready to sympathize with Nannie about the underarm cramp caused by her inside . |
| 25 | After wartime service in the RAF he had come back to the School , and with his friends Mr. Norris and Mr. Hardie had helped to introduce Rugby to the School . |
| 26 | He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them . |
| 27 | It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field . |
| 28 | The woman had come back to the farm 's archway from where she and two men stared nervously up the road towards Frasnes . |
| 29 | He had come down to the gallery to join the houseparty , he thought simply to look at a new sculpture , before they all returned to the house for luncheon . |
| 30 | In the twilight of the Great Drought he had come down to the river and filled his wheelbarrow with water until only a Samson could have moved it . |