Example sentences of "had [verb] [pers pn] to [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only when the colours gave way to plain gold before subsiding into diminishing fountains of silver that she realised she had moved closer to Rune , seeking instinctive protection against the sharp noise of the exploding rockets and that he had gathered her to his strong male body , pinning her to his side by the power of his arm , his hand firmly pressed against her waist . |
| 2 | He had given it to his youngest daughter , Margaret , when she trained as a nurse at Benedict 's just after the last World War . |
| 3 | The report was able to recount what had been done in the first year of effort of the newly-organised national campaign for emancipation but to stress continuity through reliance on the circulation of pamphlets by Wilberforce and Clarkson ; reformers were ‘ thus enabled to proceed under the conduct of the same veteran Champions who had first led the battle against the African Slave Trade and who had pursued it to its final extinction ’ . |
| 4 | Quite clearly , Paul Fisher thought she had reported him to his superior , but she knew full well that she had n't . |
| 5 | A few minutes earlier Ruth would have welcomed the idea of everyone going off to sleep ( not that Sean showed any sign of doing so ) as an opportunity for her to indulge in her own thoughts , but the fits of uninhibited laughter had restored her to something nearer to normality , and at last she was present with her companions in mind as well as in the flesh . |
| 6 | Bultmann was primarily a New Testament scholar , and his theological position , once he had settled it to his own satisfaction , remained more or less inflexible thereafter . |
| 7 | Afterwards they had gone out into the brilliant sunshine of mid-June , the English summer being fine for a change , and Matey had introduced her to her other , lesser treasure , the curate Mr Julian Sands . |
| 8 | The economists advising Beveridge had converted him to their own views , which Beveridge described as ‘ the socialisation of demand ’ . |
| 9 | On the other hand , I had to prove it to my own satisfaction and I hailed a cab to the next corner . |