Example sentences of "had [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When my husband 's mother , Lakey , died , an extraordinary scene of pillage went on in her little Blackpool bungalow after Jack had uttered the fateful sentence to visiting friends and relatives ‘ Take whatever you want . ’ |
| 2 | I had intended the whole play to be accompanied by light drum taps to accentuate the beats ( esp . |
| 3 | Robert Hardy — who had arranged a nifty transfer to London — confirms this . |
| 4 | This monumental achievement acknowledged the work of Marsh and also that of the Russian geographer A.I. Woeikof ( 1842–1914 ) , who had developed a utilitarian approach to the study of the earth 's surface acknowledging the impact of man 's activities . |
| 5 | Members of the CSJ , the NILP , the CPNI , the Belfast Wolfe Tone Society , the Republican Clubs and private individuals worked together because they had developed a personal commitment to the association , and not because they were directed by any outside agency . |
| 6 | Indeed , some psychiatrists had developed a whole approach to treatment in which the hospital itself , the total environment , was organized therapeutically . |
| 7 | The first hint of such an ability in bees came years ago when von Frisch discovered that bees that had flown an indirect route to a food source were nevertheless able to indicate by their famous communication dances the straight line direction to the food . |
| 8 | Jessie had said a fortnight , but it was only nine days since she had broken the awful news to her . |
| 9 | Turkey had also offered to supplement any shortfall in electricity supply to Syria , but had received no formal response to this offer . |
| 10 | This happened to our Corporal Jane , who arrived back in camp after a brief visit to one of the neighbouring air fields to find that she had been posted to the Met Office at Group Headquarters , Huntingdon , and the corporal there , Rosemary Hilton , had received a reciprocal posting to Bourn . |
| 11 | The Saar settlement had given a strong boost to Franco-German relations , while those with Britain had deteriorated because of the failure of the Suez venture . |
| 12 | Yes , those ladies had given a useful fillip to his prestige . |
| 13 | And she had given a certain name to it , and I ca n't remember what the name was now , something like fiddling , I mean fiddling is too obvious , it was n't that , but it was something like that , an ordinary everyday term like that . |
| 14 | The taxi-driver had given a rude sign to Myeloski 's disappearing back before turning to a bemused Duncan for support . |
| 15 | It quoted him as saying that " if the Iraqis had given a positive response to our call sooner , the situation would be different now " , but also as adding that it had become " evident " that " the USA and its allies are pursuing wider aims than Iraq 's withdrawal from Kuwait " . |
| 16 | It is also a moment of generalisation for the twenty-one-year-old second mate who on this voyage from Australia , carrying grain and bent on winning the famous gain-race , had had to contend with an arrogant and hostile captain and who had cast off his boat , after a collision in the dark had given a mortal blow to the Blackgauntlet and he had waited in vain for orders . |
| 17 | This attitude was bitterly criticized by republican politicians who felt that he had given an enormous fillip to a rebellion that would otherwise have run out of steam . |
| 18 | Pearce had given the necessary instructions to a depressed , disillusioned and just plain pissed-off police cordon outside that the ‘ block ’ had to be maintained . |
| 19 | When I learnt biology , I was taught that Weismann , although he was right about the independence of germ line and soma , had given the wrong answer to this question . |
| 20 | Meanwhile the Chancellor was shocked to discover that the Civil War of the previous reign had swollen the National Debt to a record level … |
| 21 | The measure also restored citizenship to 175 cultural figures stripped of their citizenship on emigration , and to those who had joined the Russian emigration to Israel . |
| 22 | Unwelcomed , unwanted , despised and dug out , they had added a new dimension to my life , given me another self and I wanted never to go from Claro . |
| 23 | He still stressed the desirability of banning the fascists but he now stated that anti-semitism had added a new dimension to the problem since 1934 . |
| 24 | But already Lili had added a new dimension to my view . |
| 25 | He had written to tell them about Amy since his parents constantly threatened to visit and ‘ unlikely as this was actually to happen , the prospect had added an intolerable anxiety to his already anxiety-ridden life . |
| 26 | On completion of his secondary education at Q.R.C. , the young Eric Williams had won a coveted scholarship to Oxford . |
| 27 | She had expected the royal apartments to be brimming with activity . |
| 28 | I had expected an American senator to be as pompous and flatulent as a British MP , but George Crowninshield had proved affable and friendly . |
| 29 | As before , he was concerned to hear that we had enjoyed a good flight to his native city , had found a good hotel and that we were managing to survive the bitter cold , the snow and the ice of a Canadian winter . |
| 30 | She had come the other way to the school , and was parked by the road , now , increasingly fretful that the two boys were nowhere to be seen . |