Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv prt] to [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 1877 trunk lines were begun on both North and South Islands to cement the short , separate , coast-to-interior railways which had developed up to that date . |
| 2 | It was Lucchese 's first shot of a game Newcastle had dominated up to that point , with both Kristensen and Kevin Sheedy having gone close . |
| 3 | The casualty was now heading south west , and the swell had built up to some 20ft . |
| 4 | He explained that the people who had got on to that ferry would get off in another world , and would never be seen in this one again . |
| 5 | Since the death of the writer the insults and threats he had dealt out to each member of his family took on a new significance . |
| 6 | I had assumed up to this point that you really wished to speak not to me but to my husband ( who is of course E J Maitland , a philosopher whose reputation is rather more likely than mine to attract telephone calls from the great officers of state ) and that I was being summoned to the phone merely because he was not there . |
| 7 | One was left to imagine the scene being played out inside the commissariat and the events which had led up to this incident . |
| 8 | Two members of the PAIN organisation went to Orkney to prepare a report on the events as they had happened up to that point , and to compare the reality with the guidelines . |
| 9 | It was a peak everyone had worked up to all week , in a way through all the dark dreary closed early part of the year . |
| 10 | After this , I still found the problems of pragmatics a challenge , requiring the revision of the whole approach to language ( and particularly meaning ) which I had taken up to that time . |
| 11 | There was high excitement ; the race had lived up to all expectations . |
| 12 | If we pause for a moment and consider the place of the Neolithic revolution in the theory of human personality and society so far advanced in these pages we will be struck by the fact that the coming of cultivation posed a major threat to the psychological foundations of human society as they had evolved up to that point . |