Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] to [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government of India had only moved to Delhi from Calcutta in 1911 , and the magnificent Lutyens buildings which today dominate New Delhi were still being built . |
| 2 | The Blues suspected the Georgians would be carpeted for their haphazard arranging of the first leg tie ; the Windsor Park club had already complained to UEFA about this . |
| 3 | The Blues suspected the Georgians would be carpeted for their haphazard arranging of the first leg tie ; the Windsor Park club had already complained to UEFA about this . |
| 4 | Irina was wearing a blue-and-brown check low-waisted summer dress with pleats , which Alison had already declared to Franca to be ‘ too smart , too old , and too expensive ’ . |
| 5 | Lowe had not gone to Canada for just academic reasons . |
| 6 | It reported that West Germany was seeking to end restrictions on the export of digital switching equipment , civilian satellites and mobile radio networks to eastern Europe on grounds that restrictions on the export of these items had not applied to China since 1985 . |
| 7 | If Oliver had not come to France with her the playing might have gone further . |
| 8 | Undoubtedly , such a milestone was passed in December 1965 , when the recently appointed Monsignor Harris , who at that time had just gone to London as the Senior Roman Catholic Chaplain to the prison service , was invited by the holy see , to become an Auxiliary Bishop in his native diocese of Liverpool . |
| 9 | Michael Perrin , a young research worker who had just returned to Winnington from Amsterdam took his place . |
| 10 | Kermit Weeks and Linda Meyers had just returned to Florida from France where Kermit had flown the Week 's Solution ( an aerobatic type which he had designed ) in a competition . |
| 11 | In August , Armenia had unsuccessfully appealed to Russia for military support , invoking the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) security treaty [ see pp. 38922 ; 39059 ] . |
| 12 | Koreans who had formerly looked to Japan for help against a conservative , autocratic government and for encouragement to ‘ modernize ’ now found themselves subordinated to those self same Japanese , deprived of an independent voice . |
| 13 | Sor de Naves , here with his brother , had also bowed to Primaflora at her table and had taken the chance , stopping Nicholas , to congratulate him on his marriage . |
| 14 | Levagh put his had up to indicate to Fangio to that he was about to overtake ; Macklin then braked , Levagh caught Macklin 's car and somersaulted over the safety barrier into the crowd . |
| 15 | The government 's inertia was demonstrated both by its reluctance to investigate the murder of Council member Serge Villard in June , and its failure to arrest Williams Regala , a notorious Duvalierist former military officer and minister who had openly returned to Haiti in July despite the existence of an outstanding warrant for his arrest . |
| 16 | What I had said had clearly got to Pikey in a major way . |
| 17 | She had n't spoken to Matthew in a long time . |
| 18 | He had then gone to Hollywood in the early fifties and stayed there long enough to show that he could cope with the system and be moderately successful , but not so long as to alienate his chauvinistic British following . |
| 19 | The ‘ Fury and the Spitfire has been to an airshow the previous day at Yeovilton , they had then flown to Humberside for another airshow and were on their way home . |
| 20 | That defeat caused France — who had previously looked to Russia as an ally — to look to Britain for mutual support , enhancing the Entente Cordiale which had developed following King Edward 's visit to Paris , with Queen Alexandra , in May 1903 . |
| 21 | The secretary of the planning committee that examined the project was an MI6 officer called George Blake who had recently returned to England after a long spell of captivity in Korea . |
| 22 | Ironically , my father , mother , younger brother and I had recently returned to England from Singapore , at the end of a four-year posting . |
| 23 | The catalyst which provoked that indignation was the appearance in their lives of a wealthy businessman , Peter Shand Kydd who had recently returned to Britain after selling a sheep farm in Australia . |