Example sentences of "had [vb pp] to [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | poets had referred to the riches of the east for many years , but in the early seventeenth century ‘ My America , my new-found-land ’ seemed a more effective phrase to represent emotional force and involvement . |
| 2 | The children gave the same simple obedience as they had given to the men with the megaphones . ’ |
| 3 | Thus , Barker ( 1984 ) , in her study of the Moonies , gave a questionnaire similar to that which she had given to the Moonies to a group of people who were matched with the Moonies with respect to sex , age , and background . |
| 4 | The details recalled by Carol during the regression ( and which she continued to remember afterwards ) tallied precisely with those she had given to the police on the night the rape had occurred . |
| 5 | Lancaster 's expedition to Brittany also had to be postponed , probably because of the need to recover Berwick , which had fallen to the Scots in October 1355 . |
| 6 | He had added to the crumbs of education thrown to him by his father an ambition of his own focused on Samavia — not , to him , a real place so much as a symbol of satisfying large issues to take him out of a drab world . |
| 7 | However , Cavendish was of more assistance to L : Lord Parker C.J. emphasised ( at p.378 ) that more must be proved for actual or constructive possession than that the goods were found at the premises , it had to be shown that goods had come to the premises by arrangement and that a servant or agent had instructions to take the goods . |
| 8 | What had come to the poets in their most serene or passionate moments we glided into as easily as we gathered flowers for Maud or Blanche or Mabel , as we lay in the grass with our eyes divided between the books , the land and the clouds . |
| 9 | The ECJ , defending its own supreme right to interpret EC law , had objected to the rights of a proposed EEA joint legal body to resolve disputes . |
| 10 | Twelve males and twelve females — Godwin had objected to the ties of conventional marriage — would hold their property in common , as in the ideal republic described by Plato ( whence Pantisocracy , which literally means ‘ all equal government ’ ) . |
| 11 | The local authority , the Croydon London Borough Council , had applied to the justices in circumstances to which I will refer for an interim care order . |
| 12 | Harriet , albeit with misgiving , had bowed to the wishes of Liza 's doting father and their headstrong mercurial daughter . |
| 13 | Environmental groups also criticized the agreement , claiming that governments had bowed to the demands of chemical companies . |
| 14 | A MAN accused of attacking two girls while posing as a taxi driver had confessed to the crimes during a tape-recorded interview , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 15 | Russian colonization , cities and railways cut up the great grazing lands of the nomadic peoples as violently as American settlers had done to the Amerindians in the United States . |
| 16 | Drowning the typewriter reminded him of what he had done to the remains of Ivor Newley . |
| 17 | As he said these words he remembered again the vow he had made to the powers of Callanish which was that he would let Minch go before him . |
| 18 | It abolished almost completely the attributes of statehood which the 1978 Yugoslav federal Constitution had granted to the provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina within the Serbian republic . |
| 19 | My parents had moved to the outskirts of Glasgow and I joined the local pipe band and met Duncan McIntyre . |
| 20 | We had moved to the edges of our previously closed system of thought and action , both physically and philosophically , and almost implicitly came to recognize that the ‘ foundation metaphors ’ which Turner identifies as being crucial to transformational experience of liminality were making paradigmatic statements about our own cultural format ; although I know we would have been unable to articulate this . |
| 21 | Earlier , on Aug. 19 , a spokesman for the AIG had appealed to the leaders of the ( ultimately unsuccessful ) Soviet coup to " open a new chapter in the relations of the two countries by removing the puppet regime in Kabul " . |
| 22 | He was somewhat reluctant to explain , but finally did so , although if the associative method that he used had got to the ears of his victims , it might have been embarrassing . |
| 23 | He outlined his purpose to the pair of journalists in much the same words as he had used to the members of the nascent Rothschild CPRS on the lawn at No. 10 in 1971 : |
| 24 | Vietnam had agreed to the arrangements for repatriation and aid would be given to assist resettlement , Mr Hurd said . |
| 25 | President Gnassingbe Eyadema , whose regime was facing mounting opposition , had agreed to the terms of the conference at a meeting on June 12 with the Democratic Opposition Front , representing illegal opposition groupings . |
| 26 | In the next chapter , we shall see whether insubordination in science was encouraged by insubordination in religion , whether the Protestant Reformation had contributed to the conditions in which a re-formed philosophy of nature could flourish . |
| 27 | The Times of Dec. 11 , however , had quoted an Icelandic doctor who had headed the intensive care unit at the Mubarak al-Kabir hospital , who described as " not true " the reports that Iraqi looting had contributed to the deaths of premature babies , but said that some babies had died " because of lack of staff " . |
| 28 | As the British had retreated to the beaches of Dunkirk , the government of France had run for the southern port in case the worst should happen . |
| 29 | The old Eythrope house which had stood near to Bridge Lodge had belonged to the Earls of Chesterfield , who had pulled it down in 1810 and made the most of the high price of building materials then prevailing owing to the Napoleonic wars . |
| 30 | For the first time in British history , and after a long struggle , Conscription had become law ; but in Dublin the ‘ Easter Rising ’ had set the spark to Ireland , and in Mesopotamia General Townshend had surrendered to the Turks at Kut . |