Example sentences of "had [verb] [to-vb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had arranged to meet at the Metropole Hotel . |
| 2 | Supposing , just supposing , that Mackay and Parsons had arranged to meet at the cottage . |
| 3 | He had expected to stay at the Dog and Gun , a tavern well known for its radical associations , where unstamped , illegal newspapers had always been laid out openly on the bar-counter for the perusal of anyone so inclined . |
| 4 | In the event , Paris was saved because Galliéni recognized that the moment had come to strike at the Germans when Kluck , wheeling northeast of the city , exposed his right flank to the Sixth Army . |
| 5 | Mrs Heaton said : ‘ I certainly did not expect this we had come to look at the architecture . ’ |
| 6 | She had come to look at the frescos of Sandweg , the frescos that interpreted the story of the Massacre of the Innocents — the slaughter of the male children of Bethlehem at the behest of Herod . |
| 7 | That was when Buckley arrived from Kettering , with Grimsby in Division Four , just seven players on the staff and a debt of £850,000 that someone had forgotten to mention at the job interview . |
| 8 | At the same time as the Convent negotiations were taking place , the Governors were also advertising for a new headmaster , for Mr. Scott had decided to retire at the end of the Easter Term in 1979 . |
| 9 | He knew nothing , nothing , of what Sally-Anne had had to suffer at the hands of one of the monsters who controlled … what were his weaselling words ? … the mechanism . |
| 10 | He had taken his boys to the river , they had played tennis with some people they had got to know at the boathouse ; he had gone mushrooming in the early morning with the youngest one , whom the lethargy of youth had not yet struck . |
| 11 | Wedgie [ Tony Benn ] then made what I found a very effective speech , pointing out that we had got to look at the problem in domestic as well as international terms . |
| 12 | But the woman 's insults rankled , as did her earlier insolence — for her contemptuous glance had raked Theda 's person when she had dared to ask at the Feathers for a room for the night . |
| 13 | The three brothers had agreed to meet at the beginning of October , at Metz , where their father was buried . |
| 14 | Mr Bush announced that Mrs Black had agreed to help at the school as there would be an extra seventy children attending . |
| 15 | Inside her she had felt a little sense of triumph begin to grow as they rode side by side through the cool bright jungle glades ; sometimes she had allowed her horse to drift towards his on the narrow trail , perhaps hoping he might give voice to the passion his expression had seemed to promise at the palais . |
| 16 | The cornflower-blue dress she had brought to wear at the finals had been slept on by Ethel and was impossibly creased , as was her face after two nights sleeping in the car . |
| 17 | Mrs Labno , mother of two sons , who lived in Moreton , Wirral , had hoped to work at the hospice . |
| 18 | Mrs Labno , mother of two sons , who lived in Moreton , Wirral , had hoped to work at the hospice . |
| 19 | Nottingham Crown Court heard that Allitt had gone to live at the Jobson home in 1991 . |
| 20 | She had gone to stand at the cemetery end after spotting Uncle Vernon on the touchline in front of the club-house . |
| 21 | The distraught and guilt-ridden driver was unable to remember the number plates of the vans which he had tried to memorise at the time of the kidnapping . |
| 22 | At first he had tried to look at the newspapers regularly to search for job vacancies and had sent application forms to prospective employers . |
| 23 | Bathsheba had planned to stay at the party for only an hour , and she was in fact preparing to leave when Boldwood found her alone in an upstairs room . |
| 24 | It must have been nearly three months before I heard from Mrs Ainsworth , and in fact I had begun to wonder at the bassets ' long symptomless run when she came on the phone . |
| 25 | Again in 1960 , the EEC had begun to look at the problem of discrimination in transport , and in 1961 a Monetary Committee was established , as well as one charged with examining trade cycle policy . |
| 26 | Such dramatic attempts at direct action were not the only ways in which people had begun to protest at the development of nuclear power . |
| 27 | Curiously , Branson did not dislike McLaren — Malcolm 's transparently roguish charm made him hard to dislike — but he had never trusted him from the day they had first shaken hands in Leslie Hill 's office and McLaren had failed to arrive at the Virgin offices ; failed to keep his promise . |
| 28 | Prices were down by around 50% by comparison to two years ago in the hope of moving stock : Willy d'Huysser from Belgium , for example , with a very fine choice of works , offered a Jannis Kounellis sculpture of 1976 for FFr850,000 which he had failed to sell at the Salon de Mars in Paris last year for FFr1.2 million . |