Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had swiftly risen to prominence during student demonstrations in favour of a multiparty system in Tirana in December 1990 , and the DP had that month been the first opposition party to be formed [ see p. 37924 ] . |
| 2 | The new government pledged itself to deal with a range of serious environmental problems affecting the country , the extent of many of which had only come to light after the collapse of communist rule . |
| 3 | It is as if the words had suddenly come to life inside my head . |
| 4 | The expected shortfall in social services funding for community care had already led to tightening of the criteria that social workers will use to decide who is eligible for care management , and patients with moderate needs for care might lose out altogether . |
| 5 | His surprise in finding her there had not turned to relief as , in normal circumstances , it ought . |
| 6 | To meet new people meant a lot to me because those of my Fontanellato friends who had not gone to school in Parma had already started work . |
| 7 | During continuing negotiations with mediating union officials , the government threatened on Aug. 26 to dismiss strikers if they had not returned to work by 8 am on Aug. 28 . |
| 8 | During continuing negotiations with mediating union officials , the government threatened on Aug. 26 to dismiss strikers if they had not returned to work by 8 am on Aug. 28 . |
| 9 | She had just got to incarceration in a convent for the rest of her days when they arrived at the top of the stairs . |
| 10 | Julia , who had just returned to work after major brain surgery , was given the three-times-a-week slot Focus on Britain in the revamped News at Ten . |
| 11 | They passed lock-up stores , splendid Georgian terraces , and the stern front of St Mary 's Church with its massive columns which had always seemed to Boxer like the fingers of an upraised hand ordering him to halt , enter and say a prayer . |
| 12 | In any case , she had now got to thinking of other things . |
| 13 | He had often drunk to excess in alcoholic ‘ binges ’ . |
| 14 | I 'd forgone breakfast because I had n't got to bed till four in the morning , lunch because I had a hangover and anyway I was late for the train , and due to the fact that it was — according to British Rail at any rate — still part of the extended Festive Period , there had been no buffet trolley on the train . |
| 15 | Even though she had n't got to bed till the small hours , and had been feeling totally exhausted , she 'd been tossing and turning for what seemed like hours , utterly unable to sleep . |
| 16 | Yes , this was the closest that Lexandro had yet come to communion with elder Brethren . |