Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] [conj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed that all the other Minpins from the big tree had turned up as well to witness the great victory over the dreaded Gruncher . |
| 2 | Such evidence is given by phrases including ‘ I saw women with prams obstructed by the offending vehicle parking across a pavement ’ ; ‘ several motor cars had to negotiate carefully and slowly to pass the offending vehicle ’ etc . |
| 3 | The formulation of a course for validation placed a greater burden on college resources than offering a centrally devised course but he felt that this was offset by the ability which a college now had to react quickly and flexibly to meet local demands . |
| 4 | Because of a vague feeling of loyalty , a need to repay someone or something who had seemed to walk with me through the burning fiery furnace of my husband 's last illness , I had started now and then to go to church . |
| 5 | Delicately Louisa had tried again and again to create the opportunity , but she had been allowed no room . |
| 6 | He began to tell me the difficulties of his life at home , and finally he told me that he had tried more than once to find a home with another brother or sister , but they had persuaded him to return to Cis and Elfed . |
| 7 | And then I had tried harder and harder to obtain opiates and would do my damnedest to get hold of morphine , opium , diamorph and anything , y'know … . |
| 8 | After visiting once with her mother , while still at school , Juliet had fallen in love with the hospital , and had vowed there and then to do her nursing training at Riverside . |