Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The councils had effectively agreed to a ministerial veto in sensitive areas including ‘ matters liable significantly to involve ministers including highly contentious and politically sensitive matters of moment ’ . |
| 2 | She and her husband had only moved to a government-sponsored caravan park south of Miami after Hurricane Andrew destroyed their home last August . |
| 3 | A constant eerie keening sound , which she had been only vaguely aware of until then , had suddenly risen to a blood-chilling shriek , before being abruptly cut off . |
| 4 | The red stripes on the overall 's outer seams had long faded to a dull purple . |
| 5 | Murdoch 's motivation was simply profit , and his cynical attitude had already led to a mass exodus of high-minded journalists . |
| 6 | She had already applied to a Physical Training College when a hip dislocation shattered her plans , and she found herself instead working for Prudential Assurance in Holborn for eight years . |
| 7 | Yet urban , industrial polarization had already developed to a considerable degree before 1917 , creating awareness of the political centre among the more sophisticated peasant strata such as village teachers , zemstvo clerks , bookkeepers , doctors ' and veterinarians ' assistants . |
| 8 | At this there was a muted growl of support from those in the hall who had not succumbed to a heavy lunch . |
| 9 | Didier had not taken to a foreign language and was having trouble keeping up in class . |
| 10 | Like some animated corpse in a horror movie , the dying oriental had somehow risen to a kneeling position , blood pumping unchecked from the torn stump of his missing arm . |
| 11 | In contrast to 1956 , when Khruschev 's call for reform in the East had soon led to a Soviet clampdown , Gorbachev 's desire for change included an acceptance of political pluralism . |
| 12 | We wanted very much to ask Eliot round before departure , especially as we had now moved to a bigger flat . |
| 13 | One of the detectives in charge of the inquiry , Det Insp Ray Wareham said the hunt had now moved to a new location . |
| 14 | The conditions were primitive — no electricity or running water — and in a way it was a continuation of the life we had led on Lewis , except that the extended family had now shrunk to a nuclear and very isolated one . |
| 15 | If she had n't yielded to a guilty passion then she would have been a better wife to Denny . |
| 16 | Her life had simply come to a full stop . |
| 17 | The hushed court had earlier listened to a dramatic seven-minute recording of Daniel 's 999 call , part of which is shown on the left . |
| 18 | In 1929 , he had again returned to a familiar theme , stressing that , while the establishment of a ‘ National Preservation ’ body was worthwhile , it was especially important that its attention be directed not merely to the countryside . |
| 19 | Of one thing she was convinced , however , and that was that she had actually regressed to a previous life and that it had not simply been the work of her imagination . |