Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had uneasily come to terms with the fact that Connors had been more than vague , had actually held back vital information . |
| 2 | He had swiftly risen to prominence during student demonstrations in favour of a multiparty system in Tirana in December 1990 , and the DP had that month been the first opposition party to be formed [ see p. 37924 ] . |
| 3 | One of the reasons for watching a raid on Germany was to provide some balance , as the pupils had all listened to accounts of raids on this country . |
| 4 | The Government of India had only moved to Delhi from Calcutta in 1911 , and the magnificent Lutyens buildings which today dominate New Delhi were still being built . |
| 5 | The new government pledged itself to deal with a range of serious environmental problems affecting the country , the extent of many of which had only come to light after the collapse of communist rule . |
| 6 | It is as if the words had suddenly come to life inside my head . |
| 7 | But now , nearly thirty years later , when he thought he had long come to terms with the deed and his own reaction to it , memory had begun to stir again . |
| 8 | The expected shortfall in social services funding for community care had already led to tightening of the criteria that social workers will use to decide who is eligible for care management , and patients with moderate needs for care might lose out altogether . |
| 9 | The Blues suspected the Georgians would be carpeted for their haphazard arranging of the first leg tie ; the Windsor Park club had already complained to UEFA about this . |
| 10 | The Blues suspected the Georgians would be carpeted for their haphazard arranging of the first leg tie ; the Windsor Park club had already complained to UEFA about this . |
| 11 | Irina was wearing a blue-and-brown check low-waisted summer dress with pleats , which Alison had already declared to Franca to be ‘ too smart , too old , and too expensive ’ . |
| 12 | He confessed that he had finally come to terms with the fact that he was a homosexual , after a lifetime of denying it to himself . |
| 13 | Undoubtedly , such a milestone was passed in December 1965 , when the recently appointed Monsignor Harris , who at that time had just gone to London as the Senior Roman Catholic Chaplain to the prison service , was invited by the holy see , to become an Auxiliary Bishop in his native diocese of Liverpool . |
| 14 | She had just got to incarceration in a convent for the rest of her days when they arrived at the top of the stairs . |
| 15 | Julia , who had just returned to work after major brain surgery , was given the three-times-a-week slot Focus on Britain in the revamped News at Ten . |
| 16 | Michael Perrin , a young research worker who had just returned to Winnington from Amsterdam took his place . |
| 17 | Kermit Weeks and Linda Meyers had just returned to Florida from France where Kermit had flown the Week 's Solution ( an aerobatic type which he had designed ) in a competition . |
| 18 | But since any arrangement would need the consent of Louis VII to be valid , he had somehow to come to terms with the French King — despite Toulouse , despite Auvergne , despite Becket . |
| 19 | They passed lock-up stores , splendid Georgian terraces , and the stern front of St Mary 's Church with its massive columns which had always seemed to Boxer like the fingers of an upraised hand ordering him to halt , enter and say a prayer . |
| 20 | In August , Armenia had unsuccessfully appealed to Russia for military support , invoking the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) security treaty [ see pp. 38922 ; 39059 ] . |
| 21 | Koreans who had formerly looked to Japan for help against a conservative , autocratic government and for encouragement to ‘ modernize ’ now found themselves subordinated to those self same Japanese , deprived of an independent voice . |
| 22 | Sor de Naves , here with his brother , had also bowed to Primaflora at her table and had taken the chance , stopping Nicholas , to congratulate him on his marriage . |
| 23 | The reference guide The Executive Grapevine had been used by the government service organisation and one of the anonymous respondents ; the latter had also responded to mail-shots from headhunters seeking business . |
| 24 | The government 's inertia was demonstrated both by its reluctance to investigate the murder of Council member Serge Villard in June , and its failure to arrest Williams Regala , a notorious Duvalierist former military officer and minister who had openly returned to Haiti in July despite the existence of an outstanding warrant for his arrest . |
| 25 | What I had said had clearly got to Pikey in a major way . |
| 26 | In any case , she had now got to thinking of other things . |
| 27 | He had often drunk to excess in alcoholic ‘ binges ’ . |
| 28 | In particular , the Khmer Rouge delegation had strongly objected to demands by the Phnom Penh government and the Vietnamese delegation that a sentence be included in the final statement referring to the " non-return of the genocidal policies and practices of the Pol Pot [ Khmer Rouge ] regime " . |
| 29 | He had then gone to Hollywood in the early fifties and stayed there long enough to show that he could cope with the system and be moderately successful , but not so long as to alienate his chauvinistic British following . |
| 30 | The ‘ Fury and the Spitfire has been to an airshow the previous day at Yeovilton , they had then flown to Humberside for another airshow and were on their way home . |