Example sentences of "had [vb pp] to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We hurtled at speed back to our ship , and Posi got us away about two nanoseconds after the Manport had withdrawn to the Fraxillian liner .
2 In wounded puzzlement I had a sudden flashback to the time immediately after Dunkirk , when Leslie had referred to the projected formation of a parachute corps , and to service in it as ‘ absolute certain death ’ in a ‘ suicide squad ’ .
3 And she , Merrill , had jumped to the obvious conclusion that Luke was trying to hide his past association with her cousin because he felt some guilt over the manner of her death .
4 Luke had jumped to the wrong conclusion about Richard , and she did n't intend to enlighten him — yet .
5 Dr Kemp himself ! — the man who had one day been deprived of a jewel which he himself had traced to an American collector , a jewel for which he had been negotiating , a jewel that had been found in the waters below the bridge at Wolvercote in 1873 , a jewel which once united with its mate would doubtless be the subject of some considerable historical interest , and bring some short-term celebrity , possibly some long-term preferment , to himself — to Kemp .
6 He had left her and gone to live with an upper-class woman , had soared to the opposite end of the scale from Josie , whose attraction for him had been that of a splenetic victim from the lower depths of the goyim : but Josie had refused a divorce and the ordeal had dragged on .
7 Perhaps they had adjusted to the sanitised neutralism of a Stockholm commune , but it seemed an odd life for men who had chosen to become soldiers .
8 Leading up to the introduction of the Payroll/Personnel database , the personnel information system , despite various limitations , had developed to a considerable degree of sophistication .
9 In Russia , on the other hand , commanders such as Rumyantsev and Suvorov had developed to a high pitch of effectiveness by the end of this period the more aggressive method of attack in column with the bayonet ( though the contrast between Russian and West European tactics has been greatly exaggerated by some Soviet historians ) .
10 Once , when they had gone on a nature walk , Eve had pointed to a small cottage and said that it was her house .
11 But in the final analysis , things had not changed since Wellington had pointed to a British infantryman before Waterloo with the words ‘ It all depends on that article ’ .
12 Before the war , Unionists had pointed to the huge disparity between the smallest and largest seats ( in 1910 Kilkenny had an electorate of a few hundred and Romford an electorate of over 50,000 ) , and had noted that Unionist constituencies were on average larger than Liberal constituencies , far larger than those of Nationalists in Ireland .
13 The King , understandably enough , did not thank Asquith for implying that he would deviate from the role of strict constitutionality by denying to Labour what he had given to the other parties .
14 On March 26 Noubir Amaoui , secretary-general of the Democratic Confederation of Labour ( CDT ) — a trade union grouping close to the opposition Socialist Union of Popular Forces ( USFP ) — was arrested at the CDT offices in Casablanca in connection with an interview he had given to the Spanish newspaper El País on March 11 .
15 The assembled guests well knew they were after bigger quarry than hare or stag and it the small town of Kirkmichael , Mar , on Tuesday 6 September , formally proclaimed James King of England , Scotland and , as tradition required , France , a poor return for all the help the Bourbons had given to the Jacobite cause .
16 On Dec. 4 , 1991 , Valverde had given to the parliamentary commission on industry a detailed exposition of Renfe 's role in the affair , which he claimed had been merely to execute plans made by the Transport Ministry and the Autonomous Community ( local council ) of Madrid .
17 It was clear that the responses they had given to the respective campaign teams were not necessarily accurate .
18 A copy of a paper he had given to the British Association on ‘ The car of the future ’ led to his being summoned to Detroit , and to a commission to design and build it .
19 As a result , she had been able to put away a few shillings every week , and over these past three years the shillings had mounted until now the bag of coins which she kept hidden under the bedroom floorboards had swollen to a tidy sum .
20 It was not known if Koos van der Merwe , an advocate of the negotiations process who was expelled from the CP in April [ see p. 38850 ] , had joined to the new party .
21 Accompanied by a number of his key allies , he had travelled to the southern SEZs in January to launch his counteroffensive [ see pp. 38722 ; 38764 ] .
22 The one notable feature in his face were the eyes ; they were brilliant blue , recognised as the colour of gentians by those who had travelled to the Swiss mountains in summer .
23 The three had travelled to the Russian capital to watch their team play Spartak Moscow in the European Cup Winners ' Cup .
24 And in this way the aristocrat who had fallen to the low road returned — now sober , repentant , well-heeled — to the world in which he was born .
25 Most of the surrounding marshland had fallen to the crippling infection .
26 She was to be the Honourable Lady Penelope , a British aristocrat who was seeking the protection of an influential Wehrmacht officer after Britain had fallen to the Third Reich .
27 Applying Phipps he would have been guilty if he had drove to the agreed destination and then driven to his true destination .
28 281 had added to the protected class a case in which vulnerable elderly parents had agreed to provide security for the debts of their adult son .
29 The country in the south had been really weird , with mushrooms of crumbling lava and wide flat rivers to cross , and it had rained for days , which had added to the general air of unreality as these features kept emerging from the mist .
30 By 1701 the young Tsar Peter I had added to the resident representative in Warsaw others in The Hague , Copenhagen , Vienna and Constantinople .
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