Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] [noun pl] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the face of mounting political tensions , it was reported on April 9 that President Mobutu Sese Seko had withdrawn his objections to the holding of a national conference . |
| 2 | What is certain is that the Egyptian goldsmiths had developed their skills to the point at which they were able to mount amethyst , lapis lazuli and turquoise in the gold bracelets buried with King Zer of the first dynasty in his tomb at Abydos . |
| 3 | After Becky had bade her farewells to the rest of the party , Guy drove her back to Chelsea and having said , ‘ Goodnight , Miss Salmon , ’ shook her by the hand . |
| 4 | Discussing the case of a headmaster who had reported his pupils to the police for criminal behaviour , the Philosopher , who was female , expressed the opinion that , since the headmaster is in loco parentis , he should have tried to avoid resort to law ; he should have dealt with his pupils himself , privately and without publicity — as would , she suggested , a loving parent . |
| 5 | He had been looking down into her face , lit by the candle he carried , but some sound had turned his eyes to the back of the hall . |
| 6 | The irony was that , by dismissing as irrelevant all talk of the Tyrrell Society , he had closed his eyes to the vital clue Rex Cunningham could have given him : the identity of the man whose photograph Clare Mallender had carried about with her . |
| 7 | Today — the Saturday of the Whitsun weekend — the shop had opened its doors to the public for the first time ; and they had got off to an encouraging start . |
| 8 | Even if it 's even if people had sold their houses to the local council . |
| 9 | He also says that the committee had raised their concerns to the council about recruitment practice as far back as the late 1970s . |
| 10 | Soon the bodies began to pile up here , too , and yet again the Collector and his men had to put their shoulders to the carnal barricade to prevent it from being ejected into the hall ; and yet again , as if in a dream , the Collector found his face an inch from that of an amused sepoy and thought : " It surely ca n't be the same man ! " for from this corpse 's moustache there was also a scent of patchouli . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the king had to send his justices to the clergy 's deliberations and threatened to take the names of opposers , and it took all Winchelsey 's good will and best arts to elicit from them a grant of one tenth for the current year and another , should it be necessary , in the following year . |
| 12 | After the audience had accustomed their eyes to the flash , they beheld a subtle and beautiful sight . |
| 13 | The Building News and The Architects ' Journal and ‘ gentlemen who had devoted their lives to the study of architecture ’ favoured Scott 's design . |
| 14 | At the cry of ‘ stewards ’ , forty leathery men of uncertain age , who , as agents , had devoted their lives to the Party , frogmarched the YCs out of the hall to loud applause . |
| 15 | Sweden and Norway had linked their currencies to the ECU in May 1991 and October 1990 respectively [ see pp. 38202 ; 37782 ] . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's got more money than I have , ’ complained Owen after four largeish simultaneous demonstrations had stretched his resources to the utmost . |
| 17 | It was not , you went on thinking , knowing vaguely about butterflies , a future barred to the wrinkled and whitish corpses on your plate , tinged with green as if out of obedience to your grandmother 's convictions they had surrendered their essences to the cabbage . |
| 18 | ‘ You could say that I had worked my fingers to the bone for you ! ’ |
| 19 | He had taken his boys to the river , they had played tennis with some people they had got to know at the boathouse ; he had gone mushrooming in the early morning with the youngest one , whom the lethargy of youth had not yet struck . |
| 20 | Mr Ralph had taken his children to the Disney resort in Florida because he thought they would enjoy it , but he had fallen in love with Mickey Mouse himself . |
| 21 | I had to direct my words to the teachers , so I said they were like cardinals because they were the hinges on which the new South Africa would turn . |
| 22 | One polytechnic had expressed its fears to the Council that not all boards would operate the new arrangements , and had received an assurance from the Chief Officer that ‘ corrective action would be taken as soon as possible where any Board was seen not acting in the spirit of the new arrangements ’ . |
| 23 | Many had lost their families to the spawn of Chaos . |
| 24 | The men had sent their families to the relative security of a schoolhouse a mile down the road . |
| 25 | Kravchuk had sent his greetings to the Congress formed in August . |