Example sentences of "who had [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company had to give up the surplus stock it had accumulated at the expense of the public creditors and rescind its claims to be paid in full for the amount it had sold , but the real victims were the public creditors , who had to reconcile themselves to drastic losses in income and capital . |
| 2 | I was the one who had to take it to my tutor , not them . |
| 3 | Did Obispal 's associates realize that the rashly rampaging Inquisitor was only present in this auditorium courtesy of Jaq 's Assassin who had plucked him to safety ? |
| 4 | He had also telephoned an old friend , who had invited him to a birthday party the following weekend , which he was looking forward to , although with some apprehension . |
| 5 | In that sensible frame of mind she had hurried downstairs to join her daughter — who had beaten her to the breakfast table again ! — and her host in the sunny conservatory . |
| 6 | ‘ You know everyone , ’ said Brian , indicating Constance , who had beaten them to it into the drawing-room . |
| 7 | Who 's Who had revealed him to be seventy-four : in the flesh he could have passed for ten years younger , despite having a head entirely free of hair . |
| 8 | This was the street along which she had run , a skinny and excited ten-year-old , to boast to her father that she was the only girl who had made it to the next round of the chess competition . |
| 9 | He sat on the top of the large expanse of teak desk and stared coldly at the men who had made it to the top of one of the biggest corporations in the world , employing nearly one million people . |
| 10 | After its discovery in 1873 , the Tongue had found its way into the hands of a treasure-hunter , who had kept quiet about it and sold it to a London dealer , who in turn had sold it to an American collector , who had lent it to an exhibition in Philadelphia in 1922 — which latter appearance had provided the clues , sixty-five years later , for a detective-story-like investigation on the part of Theodore Kemp of the Ashmolean Museum — a man who now lay dead in the mortuary at the Radcliffe Infirmary . |
| 11 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 12 | I was a war baby and a shame to my birth-dead mother who had given herself to the last-time-leave blandishments of my faceless father . |
| 13 | If the Council 's Temporary Press Officer , who had been appointed solely to deal with the alleged child abuse controversy , had been given such confidential information , she said , they wanted to know who had given it to him . |
| 14 | I found it folded in a corner , still heavy with the perfume of the Sheikha who had given it to me . |
| 15 | His attitude has changed from being one of someone superior punishing someone who had insulted him to that of him being a bully and chasing down a poor wretch . |
| 16 | Instead she gazed into the dully glowing ashes of the dying fire and remembered a wild , enchanted garden and a tender , handsome soldier who had awoken her to approaching womanhood with one gentle kiss and a rose . |
| 17 | Lupold was never acceptable to the pope ( to whom he remained the bishop of Worms who had transferred himself to Mainz without papal licence ) and when at the end of 1204 Philip saw hope of victory he made a bad move by sending Lupold to Italy . |
| 18 | And he had done it to a woman who had done nothing to him , simply been a little rude and overbearing , not unlike The Fat Controller himself . |
| 19 | There seemed nothing but crags along the border of Crummock Water and Hope , who had imagined it to be a short walk , soon regretted that he had not saddled up . |
| 20 | The militia was much in evidence last January during a week of demonstrations in the centre of Prague in memory of Jan Palach , the student who had burned himself to death in public protest 20 years before . |
| 21 | Fewer pigs are kept in these republics ( pork being an unclean meat for Muslims , as it is for Jews ) and traditional customs such as the postponement of cohabitation ( kaitarma ) , pilgrimages to the graves of local holy men and even abduction are still practised , in some cases with the covert support of local party officials ( most tragic of all were the reports of girls who had burned themselves to death after being dishonoured in this and other ways ) . |
| 22 | Informed sources say that Mr Major was informed ‘ rather late ’ when much of the Thatcher outburst had already been drafted by Charles Powell , her private secretary , who had accompanied her to the weekend retreat of Lankawi . |
| 23 | Informed sources say that Mr Major was informed ‘ rather late ’ when much of the Thatcher outburst had already been drafted by Charles Powell , her private secretary , who had accompanied her to the weekend retreat of Lankawi . |
| 24 | Her famous ‘ four Maries ’ — Beaton , Seton , Fleming and Livingstone — who had accompanied her to France , remained there with her , to join the new friends in France , the king 's daughters Elisabeth and Claude , the dauphin Francis , and the other royal children . |
| 25 | It was getting late and her youngest child , Tudor , who had accompanied her to the funeral , and was now waiting for her in the local hotel , would be growing anxious . |
| 26 | Amaranth was joined by Charles Harvey , who had accompanied her to the party and had been circulating among his colleagues . |
| 27 | She was not even on speaking terms with Anthony Swan , the Labour MP who had accompanied her to Paris three or four years before . |
| 28 | Afterwards , he ensured the men who had accompanied him to Scotland were well before sending Ranulf off to wash their clothes and busy himself about the abbey . |
| 29 | He no longer had men like Harold Nicolson who had accompanied him to Rome , but it seemed likely that the new deputation to Germany might include William Joyce . |
| 30 | Late in the afternoon , he asked and obtained from the now bemused Prior the services of the lay brother who had accompanied them to Earlston . |