Example sentences of "had [vb pp] to [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Encouraged by Hamadan , Younis made much of the minor role Nabi Berri had assigned to him in the Air Jordanian incident and admitted he had helped guard the hostages after the TWA 747 hijack . |
| 2 | Jesus had not left them orphans : he had come to them in the person of the Spirit , who was not only the special gift of the Messiah to the messianic people in order to enable them to know his continued presence with them , but was the first instalment of the Age to Come , the pledge that the last days which had dawned with Jesus of Nazareth would , one day , come to God 's perfect conclusion . |
| 3 | He had come to her in the night . |
| 4 | I strongly felt that Resenence had come to me in the dream and yet , when I awoke , when the morning came , I told myself I had created it myself . |
| 5 | Her mother had stopped crocheting , so Jessie said , and was in the sitting-room going through a catalogue of curtain material for yet another change at the windows and had decided firmly against anything resembling Nottingham Lace ; her mind was now set on drapes with pelmets , so Jessie had whispered to her in the back shop a short while ago . |
| 6 | Maria stood there , hating him , but not for anything he had done to her in the past . |
| 7 | Dr Geoffrey Pasvol of the John Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said : ‘ There was so much there [ in Allison 's paper ] that Ian had said to me in the summer . ’ |
| 8 | Once again I had the feeling that what my father had said to me in the garden could all be some horrible trick . |
| 9 | Remember your moral crime : that you have now lied twice about why I had written to you in the first place ( Letters report , 5 December ) , and you have lied on purpose and you have done so with manifest contempt and disregard for any say or rights that I may have against your sick sense of ‘ editorship ’ . |
| 10 | Erm erm I , I think that you know I , that had occurred to me in the past |
| 11 | Once again she wished she understood what had happened to her in the last three months . |
| 12 | What had happened to her in the church — and in a church — and with him . |
| 13 | I was n't prepared for what had happened to her in the year since I had last seen her . |
| 14 | It was as though all that had happened to her in the past year was suddenly before her , and all her own shortcomings into the bargain had landed on her in a heap , and were destroying her . |
| 15 | At the time of writing I was too taken up with the present to make any but the vaguest connection with what had happened to me in the past . |
| 16 | I had to accept what had happened to me in the past before I could even begin to accept the changes in my life . |
| 17 | But my father never did a regular job after he come out th out of the army you know , I think it was something had happened to him in the army , he 'd got erm bomb blast or something or he was near s something when it went off and he got buried . |
| 18 | And that 's what had happened to him in the prison , because someone said , I wonder how long that will last . |
| 19 | How lovely it would be to find the garden , and see what had happened to it in the last ten years ! |