Example sentences of "had [verb] [adj] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that in his opinion the lift had stopped due to the lift buttons being pressed rapidly and randomly , or through a mechanical fault . |
| 2 | Then Joe unlocked the door and picked up my sister , who had dropped unconscious to the ground , but only after watching the fight through the window . |
| 3 | Although both sides had hinted prior to the summit that other issues might be raised , such as continuing differences on arms control negotiations , and US economic aid for the Soviet Union , no major announcements were made on these or other issues . |
| 4 | This job was made very difficult by corrosion which had grown adjacent to the brass tubes carrying the head studs . |
| 5 | When my eyes had grown accustomed to the darkness I saw its silhouette and I reached out to touch it , it was rough and had nodules growing from it . |
| 6 | I had got used to the pace over there which was so slow you could almost walk your way into scoring positions . |
| 7 | I had got used to the pace over there which was so slow you could almost walk your way into scoring positions . |
| 8 | Once the eagles had got used to the return of Minch they settled down for the summer months . |
| 9 | But David had always worked by himself , so I had got used to the idea that I would never play with him , much as I wanted to . |
| 10 | At one point we thought one of our players ( ca nt remember who — Whelan ? ) had got stuck to an opposition armpit … but then remembered that the velcro shirt was still an idea only . |
| 11 | But for Branson a quick death had become preferable to the prospect of prolonged agony . |
| 12 | In addition , due to the efforts of Woodhouse , Babbage , Herschel and Peacock from 1803 onwards , Leibniz " notation and methods in the calculus had gradually replaced Newton 's in England and as a consequence much of continental analysis had become available to the English . |
| 13 | Once it had become apparent to the farmer that the locking mechanism was broken , that had brought to an end the seller 's obligation that the coupling continue to be reasonably fit for its purpose . |
| 14 | Ludens had become used to the flat , it had become home-like and lived-in , Irina had bought plates , table-cloths , bedspreads . |
| 15 | Putting the light on would be too risky , but the curtains were drawn back and by now their eyes had become accustomed to a darkness in which could be made out the shapes of furniture and smaller objects , a darkness of monochrome and black spaces and faintly gleaming edges . |
| 16 | By the time Charlie 's eyes had become accustomed to the darkness he began to study the moon and , more importantly , the movement of the clouds . |
| 17 | But repeat the procedure often enough and the response will diminish and eventually the animal will no longer curl itself into a ball when touched — as if it had become accustomed to the stimulus and no longer regarded it as dangerous . |
| 18 | After the first game the majority of the players had become accustomed to the range and accuracy of the paintball markers so the second game was much more exciting . |
| 19 | But it was only somewhere about thirty degrees Celsius and after a few days I had become accustomed to the change in temperature . |
| 20 | Her eyes had become accustomed to the dark , and she could see , as she peered down it either way , that to the left this road opened out . |
| 21 | By now denying that the arm's-length principle applies to national museums Lord Armstrong makes me wonder how he interpreted his new role when he moved from being Mrs Thatcher 's Cabinet Secretary to being her choice as Chairman of the V & A. If he saw himself as dutifully executing government policy over the V & A 's restructuring it is understandable that he did not subsequently feel constrained to resign , nor to dismiss his director , when it had become clear to the museum 's staff that the essence of the restructuring separation of research from ‘ object-management ’ had been abandoned as unworkable . |
| 22 | It had become clear to the garrison that not only did the doctors sometimes apply different remedies to the same illness , in certain cases these remedies were diametrically opposed to each other . |
| 23 | That was done and counsel for the appellant told us that the disclosed documents had proved vital to the presentation of the appellant 's case . |
| 24 | If , on the other hand , they had remained loyal to the meetinghouse style they would have still been criticized for not having a style which met the needs of their time . |
| 25 | Finally , the bulk of the Airforce had remained loyal to the government , as had the frontier police and the Civil Guard in Madrid , Barcelona and Valencia . |
| 26 | necessarily calling for radicalization cos it was forced erm I , I , it appeared to me that how that the Communist Party would have continued a moderate policy had the peasants not erm been demanding further radical change and in actual fact the tone of the document 's quite moderate and it 's protecting middle peasants , rich peasants , even some landlords who had remained loyal to the Party so it 's not at all radical but erm it 's just it 's radical in the sense that how that it wants to get rid of feudalism , but it 's not getting rid of landlords per se as a class . |
| 27 | Spanish industry , by contrast , was situated almost entirely in areas which had remained loyal to the Republic . |
| 28 | In November 1989 Secord had pleaded guilty to a felony charge of making a false statement to congressional investigators by denying that he knew that funds from the Iran-contra operation had been used to instal a security system at the house of Oliver North . |
| 29 | Where a defendant was charged with committing an act of gross indecency with a co-defendant who had pleaded guilty to a charge of gross indecency with the appellant , evidence of the co-defendant 's plea of guilty , although relevant , should have been excluded from the jury , since such evidence would have an adverse effect on the fairness of the proceedings against the defendant as the jury was likely to treat it as going to prove the defendant 's guilt . |
| 30 | In November the corporation had pleaded guilty to the felony charge of " unauthorized use of government funds " . |