Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Nightingale had been a wartime soldier in a fairly respectable regiment ( George 's opinion as an excavalryman ) and while he had filled out to a pink-and-white chubbiness he still wore a small military moustache that had stayed loyally ginger as a reminder of the Desert campaign . |
| 2 | The Chinese had dyeing down to a fine art as much as 5,000 years ago , and there are herbs grown today whose names record their colouring ability , such as dyer's-greenweed and dyer's-bugloss . |
| 3 | The movies had broken through to a vast new public and everything was on a different scale . |
| 4 | No matter the weather , one had to go out to a privy next to a coalshed in the backyard . |
| 5 | They had fallen behind to a crazy goal after 33 minutes . |
| 6 | But she had done it in a very peculiar way : she had booked in to a private Well Woman Clinic under an assumed name . |
| 7 | Unlike most grown-ups , he was usually ready to stop whatever he was doing to sit down and talk , and Oliver , who had looked forward to a good gossip , was both puzzled and disappointed when his friend stood up , spat on his hands and went back to his digging . |
| 8 | SMETANA and Dvorak — the RSNO 's programme had been tailor-made for Walter Weller and one had looked forward to a good wallow ; to tunes , and torrents of the particularly lush sounds he and his orchestra make together . |
| 9 | I had looked forward to a leisurely ramble amongst the hills , since we had started early and the days were long . |
| 10 | Jean had looked forward to a comfortable retirement after a lifetime of work . |
| 11 | Not when he had looked forward to a brief glimpse of Araminta jumping up and down in the sea in a bathing dress . |
| 12 | We had come now to a poor area . |
| 13 | Miserably aware that the evening had lurched off to a regrettable start , Shannon fell into step beside him , irritated still further when she caught the receptionist 's knowing smirk at the sight of them walking out together . |
| 14 | Sixty years ago there was not an educated mute in America , but now there are four who are principals of schools , three are editors of newspapers circulating among the hearing community , two are professors in the deaf-mute college , three are chemists , six are ordained ministers , two have entered the civil service of the government ; one of these , who had risen rapidly to a high and responsible position , resigned to enter upon the practice of law in patent cases in Chicago and Cincinnati , and has been admitted to practise in the Supreme Court of the United States . |
| 15 | Their best effort of the entire proceedings was a superb save in 75 minutes by keeper Kevin McKeown who brilliantly touched away a searing drive by full back John Drake who had moved on to a Totten free kick . |
| 16 | The fire had died down to a dull glow and Patrick was just beginning to doze off when there was a soft knock on the door , and it opened to admit Jane , the younger of the two maids , carrying a large tea tray . |
| 17 | Instead , after the first flaring of fame had died down to a steady glow , and he had enjoyed the sexual fruits that it offered , he stayed in his two-room West 11th Street apartment , together with Anne and Karina again , dressed in the faded jeans and threadbare leather jackets he had always worn . |
| 18 | She said it had got off to a slow start but then the true issues had been recognised . |
| 19 | In a meeting late on Tuesday , the couple agreed the tour had got off to a bad start , upsetting the Koreans . |
| 20 | Their decision came during a meeting late on Tuesday when the couple realised the tour had got off to a bad start . |
| 21 | The day had got off to a bad start as it was ( late for work , lost the shop key , spilt a load of fish-food all over the floor and then cracked my head on a shelf while clearing it up ) . |
| 22 | The overseas struggle had become closer to a world-wide contest ; the fighting outside Europe before 1713 had been confined to North America , but between 1739 and 1763 the British went far enough afield to attack the Philippines and — what was much more important — the struggle had spread to India . |
| 23 | They argued that the rapid movements involved in a star 's collapse would mean that the gravitational waves it gave off would make it ever more spherical , and by the time it had settled down to a stationary state , it would be precisely spherical . |
| 24 | Some years later , when Hellen and I had settled down to a busy and happily married life in China , we had a Chinese name worked out for her . |
| 25 | Our second daughter Rachel had gone off to a finishing school near Florence , while Ailsa and her painter husband had bought a house in the country near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk . |
| 26 | He lay still until the pain had subsided again to a dull ache , then let his eyes examine his surroundings as far as was possible without moving his head . |
| 27 | The wide and leisurely Nile , constant for over 600 miles , had contracted suddenly to a dark gorge . |
| 28 | He had caught up with and passed his rival in a latter of a few strides in a quite extraordinary spurt of acceleration for a steeple-chaser carrying twelve and a half stone at the end of a three-mile chase , and for the big horse it was simply too much : Mill House weakened rapidly and by the time Arkle had strode home to a rapturous reception Mill House had been passed by Rondetto . |