Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It applied equally to the Galapagos Archipelago where the ancestors of Darwin 's finches had on arrival resolutely stuck to their islands and refused to travel short distances across water to interbreed and had consequently evolved into thirteen distinct species . |
| 2 | Its Royal Horticultural Society Gardeners ' Encyclopaedia Of Gardening cost £2.5 million to create and had over 100 editors working on it . |
| 3 | to buy and had very much in the sports car range . |
| 4 | Despite a Senate vote on Dec. 2 formally to indict him , Collor had refused to resign and had persistently tried to delay impeachment proceedings , most recently by dismissing his two defence lawyers on Dec. 21 ( the day before the trial was due to begin ) to gain a week 's grace while the Supreme Court appointed a public defender . |
| 5 | That was the secret she had always had to keep and had never confessed , not even to the Irish priests who stayed secretly at Roscarrock Hall . |
| 6 | Before my wife was a Christian , she moved to Cambridge to study and had nowhere to live . |
| 7 | He had obeyed the Father in all things and would not only have to die but had also to become sin for the sake of the captives . |
| 8 | My mother also had it and when I had previously attempted to diet and had successfully lost weight there was little improvement , if any , to the appearance of my ugly dimpled thighs , that is until I went on my low fat diet . |
| 9 | No one was really sorry to see her go as she was very expensive to maintain and had never been very effective as a revenue vessel . |
| 10 | They talked about other Christmas flops and bombs , delaying for as long as they could any mention of TCT 's ‘ T is He Whose Yester-evening 's High Disdain ’ , which had cost practically nothing to make and had already done 120 million in its first three weeks . |