Example sentences of "had [verb] [to-vb] [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Molly and Mary both had things to do that evening , so Yanto had arranged to meet Billy in the Boar to round off a good weekend . |
| 2 | She had arranged to meet Luke in the bar for a drink , and she hoped that he had a dinner engagement so that she would be left to her own devices afterwards . |
| 3 | The Christmas tree was already ensconced in the drawing-room , so they had arranged to have tea in the dining-room , where a lovely fire was blazing . |
| 4 | It was reported that Yazov , Kryuchkov , Baklanov and Tizyakov had flown to meet Gorbachev in the Crimea , where Gorbachev had had them arrested ( his 32-strong bodyguard having remained with him ) . |
| 5 | Stephen Dorrell , Finnacial Secretary to the Treasury , said 1.8 million potential new investors had registered to buy shares in the latest sale . |
| 6 | As he spoke there were others who were not enjoying themselves quite so much , for the wind had got up and men were finding out what the soft spring this year had done to nurture growth in the grass lurking on either side of the fairways . |
| 7 | Then she remembered that she had promised to keep Sybil in the picture but decided that could wait as well . |
| 8 | She was one of five Third World feminist writers the NI had commissioned to visit countries in the rich world and comment on women 's lives there . |
| 9 | She remembered the fights she had had to keep Eve in the first place , when so many other solutions were being offered . |
| 10 | The Partnership had helped to stabilize conditions in the inner city , partly as a result of encouraging a range of organizations to focus attention on the older urban core . |
| 11 | He was glad he had agreed to take part in the TV series Call My Bluff in which Ken was starring . |
| 12 | Was n't that partly the reason why she had agreed to see André in the first place ? |
| 13 | Kamal Jumblatt and other nationalist leaders said that they would no longer support a Cabinet that included Phalangists — just as Chamoun , back in 1957 , had refused to countenance nationalists in the administration . |
| 14 | The Church had continued to lose members in the 1970s and 1980s , yet it remained a powerful source of social criticism . |
| 15 | Of 15 ministers dropped from the previous Cabinet , 13 had failed to win seats in the February 1989 elections in which the NRC had been expanded from 98 members to 278 [ see p. 36455 ] . |
| 16 | The result was particularly welcome for the Greens ( led in Hesse by the pragmatist former Bundestag deputy Joschka Fischer ) , which had failed to win representation in the Bundestag in the December 1990 general election . |