Example sentences of "had [verb] [pers pn] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were n't allowed to have a hearse , you had to carry them to the church , and er er we used to b bury them by lamp light . |
| 2 | She had n't expected to be greeted with open arms , but the reception she 'd actually received had shaken her to the core . |
| 3 | 780 Ealdhun also gave lands which Ecgberht had given him to the familia of Christ Church ( CS 293 : S 155 ; cf. , CS 319 , 320 : S 1259 and CS 332 : S 1264 ) . |
| 4 | At Holly 's request Rosie had added it to the list of diary items Rain would offer at the afternoon conference . |
| 5 | He could see that whatever was agitating his friend had pushed him to the limit but he judged it better to let him get it off his chest than keep it bottled up . |
| 6 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 7 | ‘ You were lucky to make it to the lav , ’ observed Lydia , meaning that she was very grateful that Betty had made it to the lav , since one of the rules is that the afflicted person does not mop up her own vomit and Lydia was absolutely no good at doing this . |
| 8 | I had made it to the door of my flat . |
| 9 | He sat on the top of the large expanse of teak desk and stared coldly at the men who had made it to the top of one of the biggest corporations in the world , employing nearly one million people . |
| 10 | Nineteen of us had made it to the end . |
| 11 | Man of the match Smith admitted he would not have been surprised if Hick had pipped him to the award . |
| 12 | He refused to swap it with opposite number Willie Carne after the game because he had promised it to the Mirror . |
| 13 | How it had shrivelled her to the point of annihilation . |
| 14 | Fearing her correspondence would otherwise be intercepted , the queen-dowager had entrusted it to the care of Cardinal Bourchier — sending it by a trusted servant to the cardinal 's residence , requesting that it be forwarded to her cousin forthwith . |
| 15 | Anyone who became Nawab expected to be rich , and took it for granted that he should reward those who had helped him to the throne . |
| 16 | Jilly Jonathan was pale but had calmed down after the bout of hysterical weeping that had overcome her once they had got her to the hotel . |
| 17 | His strategy was that he spent big , to give the club momentum , once he had got us to the top , he knew we were living beyond our means , but hoped that the structure he created would maintain our position . |
| 18 | He had shown her to the guest bedroom . |
| 19 | Well , you had to give it to the kid for determination . |
| 20 | She suspected that the Bishop and the Archdeacon had invited her to the meeting more to enlist her help as a sleuth than as a source of information of a kind which might be to them , in any case , unwelcome . |
| 21 | For that evening , as work finished , the Zoo Curator himself had summoned him to the building near the Cages where they did a lot of the scientific and veterinary work on the birds . |
| 22 | Dolly had reduced it to the size of an irregular-sided marble . |
| 23 | Rafiq had dug a twelve-foot hole at the bottom of the garden , and then , in the grip of one of his periodic fits of depression , had abandoned it to the spring rain . |
| 24 | Informed sources say that Mr Major was informed ‘ rather late ’ when much of the Thatcher outburst had already been drafted by Charles Powell , her private secretary , who had accompanied her to the weekend retreat of Lankawi . |
| 25 | Informed sources say that Mr Major was informed ‘ rather late ’ when much of the Thatcher outburst had already been drafted by Charles Powell , her private secretary , who had accompanied her to the weekend retreat of Lankawi . |
| 26 | It was getting late and her youngest child , Tudor , who had accompanied her to the funeral , and was now waiting for her in the local hotel , would be growing anxious . |
| 27 | Amaranth was joined by Charles Harvey , who had accompanied her to the party and had been circulating among his colleagues . |
| 28 | She said a third man , Lee Thompson , had pinned her to the ground during the alleged incident at Mr Cowen 's flat in east London on 31 May , 1991 . |
| 29 | True , extreme poverty and hardship had driven him to the point when suicide must have seemed preferable to the life he was leading . |
| 30 | She shivered , her right hand moving restlessly towards the gold chain with its rectangular pendant which lay on the exposed skin of her neck above the scooped-out neckline of her dress : Rune 's parting gift given to her that dull morning when , after having insisted on collecting her from her hotel , he had driven her to the airport at Kastrup . |