Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] [noun sg] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should not , in the administration 's view , disqualify Thomas as a Supreme Court Justice , unlike the case of Douglas Ginsburg , who in 1987 had withdrawn his nomination to the Supreme Court after it was revealed that he had smoked marijuana while a teacher at Harvard Law School . |
| 2 | The children here were all considered old enough by their parents to understand a sympathetic explanation of the grounds on which the Reporter had referred their case to the Children 's Panel . |
| 3 | At the time of the Marne , the Crown Prince had communicated his concern to the Kaiser about the difficulties von Kluck 's right wing had run into — only to receive the patronising rebuff : ‘ My dear boy ! |
| 4 | The record of this parliament is incomplete , but the recollection of contemporaries seems unequivocal , and in later , more difficult , circumstances parliament was to be reminded more than once that it had given its assent to the war . |
| 5 | Once parliament had given its assent to the war and Edward 's prospective companions in arms had been singled out for honours , Edward set about mobilizing the financial support he needed . |
| 6 | In that context , Franco was the unifying common denominator , in that he was the only person acceptable to all the shades of political opinion present on the Committee , to the external powers whose political and material support were vital to the Nationalists , and to the Catholic Church , which had given its blessing to the rising as the defence of Christianity against communism . |
| 7 | Julia , stunned but dry-eyed , had given her statement to the police . |
| 8 | On May 17 , local leaders meeting with SNM representatives at the town of Burao in the north-east had given their support to the secession ; according to Le Monde of May 16 and 21 , SNM leaders favoured a federalist solution but had bowed to this grasssroots opinion . |
| 9 | The dead Jewish convoy commander had given his name to the land where Mrs Zamzam 's village once stood , an Israeli hamlet that was now periodically threatened with rocket-fire from Palestinian guerrillas , perhaps the same men who as children walked with Mrs Zamzam from Um Al-Farajh after the ambush on the Jewish convoy . |
| 10 | He made it sound as though she had given his sermon to the messenger boy . |
| 11 | This was the journal Jewry Ueber Alles which had just been published in February 1920 , and had altered its name to The Hidden Hand in September 1920 and to the British Guardian in May 1924 . |
| 12 | Hasan had pressed his face to the glass in front of the cakes and was sniffing the fresh bread , a look of ecstasy on his face . |
| 13 | The firm of sheriff officers , Love & Co , said it had cancelled its visit to the home of Jim Smeddon at Bonnyrigg on the advice of the police . |
| 14 | The Malthusian League had addressed its message to the working class , emphasising birth control as the only remedy for poverty , and had met with understandable hostility from leading ( male ) socialists . |
| 15 | Before long the Parachute Regiment had added their name to the backers . |
| 16 | In 1932 US Navy Admiral Harry Yarnell was commanding a fleet of some 199 ships on manoeuvres west of Panama in the Pacific ; previously he had added his voice to the concern of Oahu 's vulnerability but his warnings went unheeded . |
| 17 | The Party had modified its opposition to the Government 's rearmament programme and the Left felt that this had inhibited the campaign against Chamberlain . |
| 18 | After the man had enjoyed his trip to the pub , Judge George Shindler sacked him , sent the rest of the jury home and ordered a retrial that could cost thousands . |
| 19 | Amelia Putt had dropped her objection to the wedding of one of her employees taking place in chapel and not church when she learned the identity of Tom 's bride-to-be . |
| 20 | But Mr Major felt that the man who brought down Mrs Thatcher had earned his passage to the department of his choice . |
| 21 | Was it too much to think that that dying little creature with the last of her strength had carried her kitten to the only haven of comfort and warmth she had ever known in the hope that it would be cared for there ? |
| 22 | How to achieve a political settlement without antagonizing an army which had committed its honour to the goal of total , unconditional victory ? |
| 23 | The government had to increase its grant to the Arts Council in order to replace at least part of the subsidies these county authorities had paid to support cultural activities . |
| 24 | So far as the latter issue was concerned , to succeed the applicant had to show that the decision was ‘ so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who had applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it ’ . |
| 25 | " It applies to a decision which is so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who had applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it . " " |
| 26 | ‘ so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who had applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it : ’ |
| 27 | Once he had arrived at the Southern Capital , he had proclaimed his loyalty to the old gods loudly and publicly , disowning the Aten and throwing himself on the mercy of the priests of Amun , who even then were growing bold as the revolutionary pharaoh lost his grip both on reality and his empire . |
| 28 | But she had turned her face to the wall . |
| 29 | But she had turned her face to the camera and it had caught a look that she could find nowhere else and indeed that seemed to belong to another girl ; she barely recognised herself . |
| 30 | Mr Stannard had turned his attention to the class performance lists . |