Example sentences of "had [adv] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must be dreaming , but surely she had only just gone to sleep . |
| 2 | Burleigh itself had been founded — no , started — between the wars , had survived the Depression ( as the South of England middle classes in general had so signally managed to coast blithely through the Depression ) and had offered over the years an alternative to the Grammar , Secondary Modern and Technical Schools of the town of Cullbridge . |
| 3 | After the plans had been shelved , the whole place had been leased out to various small-time manufacturers and warehousemen ; the broken-down sheds and godowns must still be the property of somebody , so too must be the piles of crates whose stencilled lettering had long since faded to pallor . |
| 4 | His wife and daughters had long since gone to bed . |
| 5 | The Airds had long since gone to bed . |
| 6 | No. 9 had long since gone to bed , so I crept up the stairs as quietly as I could . |
| 7 | But as he tried to think of his work ( Charles had long since ceased to grace it with the name of ‘ his career ’ ) , his thoughts kept returning to the Steen situation . |
| 8 | The NARCOG budget had apparently not stretched to air-conditioning , and there were times when life in Filanta Court was almost insupportable . |
| 9 | It was unlikely that anything he might discover had not already come to light . |
| 10 | I had not only come to faith . |
| 11 | He must have written it as soon as Barbara had telephoned the news and had sent it round by one of his nurses who , in a hurry to get home after night duty , had n't even stopped to hand it in but had slipped it through the letter box . |
| 12 | He 'd said too much — and I had n't even begun to cotton on . |
| 13 | Denis , in his nine years in the United States had never really taken to baseball . |