Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] to [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the truth were known , he had only acceded to her wishes because it took him away from her , allowing him access to libraries , bookshops and students of all races and creeds — many of them Irish . |
| 2 | She paused , looking at him reflectively , and then asked : ‘ Do n't you think you had better speak to your father about all this ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You had better come to my room , then . ’ |
| 4 | My mind had suddenly switched to my dinner date with the French family . |
| 5 | Its creator 's reaction to it had merely added to my fright . |
| 6 | Much as he wished that Aunt Tossie might keep her mind on the Form Book , where their interests in beating the Handicapper ran together , he had nevertheless acceded to her insistence on a party , a small house party , for Nicandra 's first real ball . |
| 7 | She had already discovered to her cost just how strongly attracted she was to him on a physical level . |
| 8 | One horrified look told him that Daisy had already sunk to her pasterns . |
| 9 | Hari had already got to his feet and little by little was becoming animated again . |
| 10 | But his thoughts had not turned to his business dealings with Klein more than once during the journey . |
| 11 | Although physical geographers had not contributed to their development , these model sequences were increasingly evident in research writings as knowledge of the sequence in one area and correlation between areas were necessary to proceed towards explanation of local and then of regional patterns . |
| 12 | When patients who did not contact their general practitioners before their attempts were questioned about why they had not gone to their doctor , it was found that many were reluctant to trouble him , some had found him unhelpful in the fist , and others thought he was unlikely to be helpful or might even be unsympathetic ( Hawton and Blackstock 1976 ) . |
| 13 | The judge , an ex-RAF flying officer brought out of retirement for the trial , told the men : ‘ I take into account that none of this would have happened if the girl had not gone to your barracks for sex . |
| 14 | After undergoing medical tests in Australia , Lini returned to work on June 14 and , on June 27 , dismissed four ministers who had not acceded to his loyalty pledge . |
| 15 | His life was meaningless without Coleen , she had not replied to his entreaties so he would end it all . |
| 16 | Such is the case , for instance , in ( 69 ) below , where the phrase the notion that suggests surprise at someone having done such a thing as was done , thereby implying that the speaker would not have thought such audacity possible if the occurrence of the event referred to had not come to his knowledge : ( 69 ) … one of those heroes , the air ace Billy Bishop , was recently the focus of a bitter wrangle between the National Film Board and the Senate . |
| 17 | The words ‘ I love you ’ just uttered by Ludens to Irina , had not come to his lips entirely by accident . |
| 18 | Four hours later police broke in after being alerted by Sian 's husband Andrew — worried that she had not returned to their home in nearby Pontypool . |
| 19 | She would have been asleep if the fly had not returned to her hand . |
| 20 | While Paddy Mayne and his men were busily raiding , Stirling had finally succumbed to his desert sores and had been hospitalized in Cairo . |
| 21 | It was a good thing he had finally come to his senses and realized it for himself . |
| 22 | He had finally settled to his fate : socialist entrepreneur of the grand scale . |
| 23 | They had just gone to their bedroom , leaving friends and relatives at the reception downstairs , when the alarm was raised at 1am . |
| 24 | They had just risen to their feet when a strident voice exclaimed , ‘ Well , will you look who 's here … ? ’ |
| 25 | In fact , facing page 119 , there it was , with Westerby duly posing in front as though it were an animal he had just hunted to its death . |
| 26 | Barry Glenn , assistant manager at Perry 's Brasserie in Darlington , had just returned to his home in Harris Street on Sunday night when a raider struck . |
| 27 | He had just returned to his £12,000-a-year job after five months off with depression , the London tribunal heard . |
| 28 | He had just returned to his Laurel Road home from school yesterday afternoon when the tragedy happened . |
| 29 | In fact , it had just added to his burdens . |
| 30 | Léonie had hardly written to her schoolfriends in England that summer . |