Example sentences of "had [verb] to a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In a period when the number of courses increased , WEA membership in the District declined by 150 and in 1931 , capitation fees from branches had slumped to a mere £44 . |
| 32 | I had said to a promising-looking man behind a counter , but it seems I should have said ‘ Cup of tea ’ and left it at that , for he put his hands on his hips and shouted , ‘ What 's stopping you ? ’ |
| 33 | Although conditions were a little better in that there was a bit of breeze at times during the night , the moon had grown to a full half rather than the quarter it had been . |
| 34 | When she was in her fifties and had grown to a generous obesity , her husband would whisper proudly to his dinner guests as they stood in front of some glowing nude or abstract construction , ‘ Wonderful artist , was n't he ? |
| 35 | The sound from next door had risen to a mechanical drumbeat , like a pneumatic drill hammering away , it was him , banging and banging away at Jenny , she could almost hear the girl 's screams . |
| 36 | His father had risen to a leading position in the town of Ottery from a background of extreme poverty , and Coleridge 's surviving brothers were all gifted men whose descendants were to include not only scholars and bishops , but the Lord Chief Justice of England . |
| 37 | Glad that the conversation had moved to a wide field , she gave a sigh of relief . |
| 38 | Caroline who had moved to a new area was asked by a neighbour to join a committee planning the local summer carnival . |
| 39 | He felt a sharp twinge of guilt now for not taking the trouble to visit , but William 's family had moved to a better neighbourhood when William 's mum had made her first million , and Preston had gradually lost touch . |
| 40 | I had had one very close childhood friend , Maeve , but her family had moved to a different part of the country and I never saw her again . |
| 41 | By 1973 the Conservatives had moved to a statutory prices and incomes policy and massive state intervention in industry ; the reorganization of secondary schooling along comprehensive lines proceeded , albeit at a slower pace than under Labour , and the trade union legislation under the Industrial Relations Act was effectively non-operational . |
| 42 | But you 've got to prove that they are a suspected person — they had to belong to a particular class of person to be classed as a suspected person . |
| 43 | It is perhaps as well to remember at the outset that the main injury in this particular case was a hip injury which , if it had occurred to a younger man , would have produced an arthrodesis operation . |
| 44 | Some medium-sized schools had shifted to a three-tier model , while some large schools were still operating a rather unsatisfactory and somewhat stressed version of Type 2 or even Type 1 . |
| 45 | Ireland had crashed to a 145-90 defeat at the hands of the English losing out on all six rinks , and looked to have little chance when they took on the Scots , who had beaten defending champions Wales 130-100 in their opener . |
| 46 | LORD ALDINGTON yesterday denied that he had lied to a High Court libel jury about the date in May 1945 on which he left the British Army 's V Corps in southern Austria . |
| 47 | On the issue of financial compensation for countries unable to sustain the economic costs of applying sanctions , it was reported on Aug. 22 that Jordan faced direct costs of $1,500 million and indirect costs of $500 million in 1990 , and that the UN had agreed to a special compensation package ( thought to amount to some $240 million ) . |
| 48 | The figures , submitted to the Arab League in Cairo on Dec. 17 , were described as " realistic " by the United Nations Children 's Fund ( UNICEF ) which on Dec. 19 confirmed that the shortage of polio vaccines had contributed to a significant increase in reported cases of polio among young children . |
| 49 | Once the trough had flooded to a manageable width , the boys would swim for it , usually finishing up about one hundred yards upstream by the time they had struggled through the rough water and reached the home bank . |
| 50 | It was an old sofa , but had been a good one in its day , made of soft leather which had worn to a comfortable softness . |
| 51 | The fields appeared to have been abandoned , the broken stalks of the crop left to rot in a vast expanse of furrowed mud which the recent rains had reduced to a sticky mess . |
| 52 | During the hearing the court received information that W. 's condition had deteriorated to a serious extent . |
| 53 | On August 28 , 1990 , he and Miss Jeannette had driven to a secluded spot where they had begun to make love but Nichol was unable . |
| 54 | Whilst at the Slade the Moynihans had belonged to a high-spirited group which included Nicolette Macnamara and who describes Hinor in Two Flamboyant Fathers as a ‘ vivid , witty personality ’ , with red cheeks , black hair and ‘ a Mona Lisa smile ’ in which an ‘ uplift of humour ’ replaced mystery . |
| 55 | The place had belonged to a Polish woman , who 'd lived there as a child and then rented it to students for the past fifteen years . |
| 56 | This had ominous implications for a party whose political strength in the 1980s had rested to a large extent on its competence in managing economic prosperity . |
| 57 | The cuckoo had to fly to a new nest , or perish . |
| 58 | Perfect Strangers ( 1945 ) , which he directed for MGM , seemed glib in its presentation of the changes war had brought to a married couple , changing him from timid clerk to authoritarian naval officer , and her from drab housewife to confident member of the WRNS , but the film was popular nevertheless . |
| 59 | Earlier , I had spoken to a Uruguayan woman and her boyfriend . |
| 60 | Ashley had swung to a middle-aged woman beside her to demand if she knew when the camera shot changed . |