Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who , she wondered , had hated him enough to break his neck ? |
| 2 | In the two years they had been operating , Stephen had taught her never to lose her temper with the guests , however unreasonable , but to try to win them over . |
| 3 | That fact had aroused her enough to make her display her feminine assets to best advantage . |
| 4 | And then she came bounding back and could n't stop herself , went straight into Doreen , knocked Doreen off her legs completely , and she was just sprawled out on all fours , it was just hilarious , we , in fact we did an action replay on that because you had to see it again to believe it . |
| 5 | Davide sighed ; with Tommaso Talvi he had been hungry for experience , but now , he wondered what had impelled him then to want so much , everything , travel , influence , money , work , before he had ever touched a woman ; when now he sang arias of extreme emotion , when he grieved and sobbed his passion in La Forza and Boccanegra and La Traviata , he thought of young men in the future bursting their hearts for his daughters . |
| 6 | I think the Rainbow people had rung everyone else to warn them . |
| 7 | It took ages to dawn on me that I had to find something else to do with my time other than music . |
| 8 | When the classic car market collapsed , he had to find something else to do with the vehicles awaiting restoration : |
| 9 | When the classic car market collapsed , he had to find something else to do with the vehicles awaiting restoration : |
| 10 | When the Central Authority carpeted him for this , he stated that he had done it both to meet statutory obligations and to make faster progress on rural electrification than agreed . |
| 11 | Too many people twigged — or at least thought they did — that he had done it only to open the door of Number 10 . |
| 12 | They had thought it well to keep that , trimmed into a square shape that concealed his lean jaw and fallen cheeks as much as possible . |
| 13 | When she asked him if they had really been as beautiful as angels , he had told her abruptly to look at the portraits , just as now , sensing that she had been hounded out of the house , he had given her something to do , a task to occupy her hands and head . |
| 14 | Frankly , he did not suppose Adam had had anything directly to do with this at all . |
| 15 | Before this , I had got someone else to give my lectures for me , because most people could not understand my voice . |
| 16 | Poor old d'Urfé ; I had used him before to suggest that centuries of high culture lay in my blood . |
| 17 | It was apparent that he had used it both to slam the shutters and so knock the simple latch back into place . |
| 18 | Deborah Sherwin , defending Miller , said she had sold her home to set up the fish stall at Redcar and Ferryhill markets but when her marriage broke up her husband took over running the stall on the understanding it would provide for their daughter . |
| 19 | That assessment was echoed by the other speakers in the session — Kevin Allard of Bertram Books , David Edyvean of the Gosport Bookshop and Nick Polkinhorne of the Sevenoaks Bookshop — each of whom explained how the application of new technology had enabled them successfully to transform the environment in which they worked . |
| 20 | Perhaps Christian 's ownership of the farm depended in some way upon the manor , or the Fettiplace family , and Christian had called them together to break the bad news to them . |
| 21 | trying to make it balance all afternoon so I had to start it yesterday to make it balance . |
| 22 | And he had found her somewhere to live . |
| 23 | ‘ You would then be able to assure yourself that all your worst forebodings were correct , that I had brought you here to cheat you out of your share in some shady manner . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ If the FA had asked me personally to select our opponents I 'd have gone for Orient , ’ said Still . |
| 25 | Because I I mean I because she had asked me originally to keep it but I keep mine all separate until you asked me for it . |
| 26 | He had asked her never to do that . |
| 27 | We had undertaken to collect birds and mammals for the Natural History Museum in London and we soon collected several specimens of blue-winged goose near the Sandfords ' farm ; the museum authorities had asked us specially to look out for this bird since they only had one specimen , collected in 1868 during Napier 's Magdala expedition . |
| 28 | He had come to Salzburg from his parental home in Augsburg in 1737 to study at the University with the intention of becoming a priest , but his love of music had led him instead to take up an appointment initially with the Canon of Salzburg before joining the Archbishop 's household . |
| 29 | The truth was she had n't wanted to be a housewife at all : she had wanted someone else to do the washing and the shopping and the cooking and to mind the child while she breakfasted with clients . |
| 30 | She had encouraged him rather to work as a translator , this seemed to be a safer activity . |