Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] [to-vb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let me invite you to dinner in an hour , ’ said George , ‘ and ’ — this was addressed to Mrs Robinson , who had crept in to stand in the doorway and hear the end of the story , and now stepped forward to play a part — ‘ please , let us borrow your daughter for the evening so that we four can be a company . |
| 2 | Another interesting , although minority , opinion was expressed by staff of an LEA which had decided not to participate in the SCDC Arts in Schools Project . |
| 3 | I had decided not to stay in the same hotel as any of the groups of owners , actors , racegoers or crew , and asked Nell if she knew of anywhere else . |
| 4 | He felt an overwhelming desire for a cigarette , but Ivy was a non-smoker and he had agreed not to smoke in the car . |
| 5 | The Tories had broadly accepted ‘ Attlee 's consensus ’ , although Churchill was already critical of ‘ socialist bureaucracy ’ and ‘ loss-making nationalised industries ’ and his party promised a further relaxation of wartime controls on workers , consumers and private capital ; the Labour leadership had basically achieved what they had set out to achieve in the initial round of nationalisation and formation of the National Health Service and had no new radical project to present to their working class supporters , while the broader ‘ labour movement ’ in the country was not unified around any radical demands for further government action . |
| 6 | Since the advent of Felicity , she had gone up to sleep in the attic — an arrangement she preferred , as she had absolute privacy up there , and as luck would have it , there was an electric fire , so that she could use it as a study . |
| 7 | The occasion was an immediately recognisable lunch party , after which Comfort and some of the other guests had gone off to swim in the nearby river , while Anthony and Julia had sat together , digesting and beginning to explore the edges of the feeling that was growing between them . |
| 8 | All of the grooms , except one who was asleep on some hay bales , had chosen not to sit in the car with their charges , and I imagined it was because of Leslie Brown 's daunting presence : racing lads on the whole felt a companionable devotion to their horses , and I would have expected more of them to be sitting on the hay bales during the day . |
| 9 | Basinger had testified in the civil lawsuit that no contract existed and that she had chosen not to appear in the unreleased film because she would have been required to perform in gratuitous sex scenes . |