Example sentences of "had [verb] the [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days she had likened the climb to life : she had dared to hope that there might be wonderful things over the horizon . |
| 2 | The police had traced the dinghy to Londoners who owned a weekend cottage a few miles away up the Welsh coast . |
| 3 | Sir Bryan himself had broken the news to Stephen Bonnard . |
| 4 | This was the third year running that Booker Fitch had given the award to students on the HCIMA course , and it attracted the greatest number of entries to date . |
| 5 | If instead of holding on to the property X had given the property to Y no inheritance tax will be in point provided Y farmed the property ( or X survived the gift by seven years ) but in that case there would have been no capital gains tax uplift on the death of X. |
| 6 | He landed on the person 's head who had given the ring to Tim in front of him and was sent to court at Newgate . |
| 7 | His father had given the cross to Lepkin . |
| 8 | Pava Barisic , head of the local Red Cross , said the army had cancelled the convoys to Belgrade and the Croatian port of Split even although the departure of about 6,300 refugees already had been approved . |
| 9 | I had expected the cock to crow , that day . |
| 10 | The woman who died was a heavy smoker and the Family Planning Association here points out that the French health ministry had stressed the dangers to smokers . |
| 11 | The NIRC had committed the men to prison . |
| 12 | The Empress had ordered her to do whatever was necessary in order to leave with fitzAlan , and if she had n't been so angry and confused that she had forgotten the threat to Edmund she would have complied . |
| 13 | He told the inquiry at Edinburgh Sheriff Court that he had reported the matter to supervisors and a new radio system was planned . |
| 14 | The eunuch had made a cursory search and then had reported the matter to Prince Narouz . |
| 15 | It was the monster-Meh'Lindi who had jerked the Inquisitor to safety . |
| 16 | Over supper Gardiner and Foxe explained how a few days earlier Cardinal Campeggio , the Papal Legate had refused to take a decision on the King 's petition for a divorce from Queen Catherine of Aragon and had transferred the case to Rome . |
| 17 | A hefty contingent of English spectators had made the trip to Paris to support Mill Reef , and at the off his price on the Pari-Mutuel was 10–7 on . |
| 18 | They had made the transition to college ‘ inhabitants ’ in the two years since I had left the borough . |
| 19 | When he realised that none of his children was interested in farming as a career , he had moved the family to Brisbane and had encouraged Belinda in her ambition to become a nurse . |
| 20 | A little firm just down the road had developed QDOS — Quick and Dirty Operating System — which looked just right for IBM 's PC. $100,000 later , Microsoft had bought the rights to QDOS , renamed it MS-DOS — Microsoft Disk Operating System , no frivolous acronyms for Big Blue , please — and licensed it to IBM . |
| 21 | Following the annexation Iraq ordered all foreign embassies in Kuwait to move to Baghdad within two weeks and announced that , for security reasons , it had closed the borders to foreigners trying to leave Iraq and Kuwait . |
| 22 | He had offered the car to Hubert for the summer on condition that everyone promised never to stand on the running boards , because they were threatening to fall off . |
| 23 | By the time he had got the train to Exeter St David 's , its first stop , people had begun arriving , notably his father in a taxi . |
| 24 | Clutterbuck Deane died in 1701 and within a year Mary had sold the mill to Thomas Shurmur , in whose family it was to remain for a century . |
| 25 | Émile , enthusiastic about Jean-Claude 's work in general ( and me in particular ) , had sold the idea to Frontenac on the grounds of Jean-Claude 's association with la Sologne . |
| 26 | During the 1890s , Kemble and Dash took over , and by 1901 had sold the mills to R. Townsend and Co Ltd . |
| 27 | Estimated at $700–900,000 , the Johnson carpet was special , and after fierce bidding sold to a New York dealer ( acting for a private collector ) for $1.2 million ( £672,200 ) ( underbid by Maurice Segoura , who had sold the carpet to Mrs Johnson ) , a world record price for a carpet at auction . |
| 28 | Incapacitated as he now was and about to go off to stay with his mother in Weston-super-Mare , St Ives had sold the tickets to Desmond Fairchild . |
| 29 | A week later , of his own volition , he provided him with proof that Albrecht Haushofer had written to Douglas , Duke of Hamilton , before the war — and that Hamilton had shown the letter to Winston Churchill at his Morpeth Mansions flat . |
| 30 | The ruling was seen as a victory for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and civil rights groups which had challenged the claims to confidentiality , made in this instance by the University of Pennsylvania , as a shield for discrimination . |