Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] to [noun] [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 | One of the reasons for watching a raid on Germany was to provide some balance , as the pupils had all listened to accounts of raids on this country . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is as if the words had suddenly come to life inside my head . |
| 6 | But now , nearly thirty years later , when he thought he had long come to terms with the deed and his own reaction to it , memory had begun to stir again . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | His surprise in finding her there had not turned to relief as , in normal circumstances , it ought . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Lowe had not gone to Canada for just academic reasons . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If Oliver had not come to France with her the playing might have gone further . |
| 16 | Minton 's sharpest critic was David Sylvester who , having admired his Painter and Model at the Contemporary Art Society exhibition earlier that year , damned the portraits at the Lefevre for their lack of reality ; Minton , he argued , had not come to grips with appearances because he had failed to detach his faculties of observation from his interest in the sitters ' personalities . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He confessed that he had finally come to terms with the fact that he was a homosexual , after a lifetime of denying it to himself . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She had just got to incarceration in a convent for the rest of her days when they arrived at the top of the stairs . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Michael Perrin , a young research worker who had just returned to Winnington from Amsterdam took his place . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In August , Armenia had unsuccessfully appealed to Russia for military support , invoking the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) security treaty [ see pp. 38922 ; 39059 ] . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The reference guide The Executive Grapevine had been used by the government service organisation and one of the anonymous respondents ; the latter had also responded to mail-shots from headhunters seeking business . |
| 30 | 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 . |