Example sentences of "had [verb] to the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | ln that time , the sixty men had adjusted to the soldiers ' normal routine of work at night and lie-up during the day . |
| 2 | He had come to the comrades ' attention when he wrote an article in the journal of the Right-On wing of the Communist Party , Marxism Today , shortly before the £750 GLC pre-feasibility study was completed in November 1984 . |
| 3 | In 1933 it first appeared in its present format , accompanied by the slim one-volume Supplement which added quotations , words , and meanings that had come to the editors ' attention after the publication of the relevant part of the Dictionary . |
| 4 | If , when it was in a position to do so , Consumers ' Co-operation had reverted to the Pioneers ' intention to develop independent and self-governing factories and workshops , the story would of course have been different . |
| 5 | The agency gave assurances that this new evidence had been passed to the relevant prosecuting authorities , and it was this which had led to the prosecutors ' decision to withdraw from their plea bargain arrangement with Drogoul , thereby allowing him to change his plea to innocent . |
| 6 | However , by that time property in the goods had passed to the buyers ' customers , so that the sellers were unable to recover their goods ( by virtue of s25 of the SGA 1979 ) . |