Example sentences of "had [verb] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Japan had halted aid to Vietnam following the Vietnamese intervention in Cambodia in 1978 . |
| 2 | A tiny shaft of surprise jolted through him at the realisation that , this time , he had imputed courage to Isabel 's stoic control instead of calculated coldness . |
| 3 | It was officially stated that 47 per cent of the members of the new central committee were aged under 49 , that four of them were women and that 41 per cent had received education to university level . |
| 4 | And Horsley had given money to miners ' families during the 1984–5 strike . |
| 5 | Jacqueline had given birth to Tommy 's daughter and moved in with a man called Steve Branch , who was living on Mill Farm Close . |
| 6 | ( They would marry two years later , some months after she had given birth to twin boys . |
| 7 | Then in November last year , soon after Wendy had given birth to Bryony , her second daughter , everything began to go wrong . |
| 8 | And locals who said that McSweeney had given birth to twins bounced Farrah up and down , never suspecting they were holding the most wanted baby in Britain . |
| 9 | Many of Rosemary Cook 's respondents in the Rhondda , who had given birth to children during the inter-war years , said that birth control had been out of the question despite the fact that the birth rate for the Rhondda fell dramatically during the inter-war period . |
| 10 | Just eighteen months previously Diana 's mother had given birth to John , a baby so badly deformed and sickly that he survived for only ten hours . |
| 11 | And then she remembered why she was there , because the Mahon virus had been joined with humanity , had been introduced into the genes as the same batch of fluid that had given life to Piphros . |
| 12 | Mr Robin Cook MP , objected to Lord Diplock 's suitability on the ground that he had been chairman of the Security Commission since 1971 , and had not formerly indicated any understanding of the concern for civil liberties and privacy which had given rise to public and press anxiety about the procedures of the security services . |
| 13 | A two-day visit to Lagos in late December 1989 by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) Managing Director Michel Camdessus had given rise to speculation that the Fund would soon agree to further financing facilities [ for 1989 standby arrangement see p. 37140 ] . |
| 14 | The previous day 's drizzle had given way to sun and wind . |
| 15 | I spoke calmly since now revulsion had given way to hopelessness . |
| 16 | Up in the dome , the uncoupling of the private car had given way to speculation about whether the northern lights would oblige : the weather was right , apparently . |
| 17 | With Gibbons , he wrote , oak had given way to limewood and earthbound solidity to feats of impossible lightness . |
| 18 | At the end of the nineteenth century the verdict of the legal philosopher Dicey was that laissez-faire had given way to collectivism ; that government had begun to assume a role in society that had taken Britain well on the way to becoming a socialist state . |
| 19 | He also perceived that monotony could be relieved by transposition of material , a foreshadowing of the key-schemes that would be possible when modality had given way to tonality . |
| 20 | When the light and warmth of the fire had given way to smoke , they put on their shoes and wandered homeward through the silent village and the frosty starlit night . |
| 21 | By 1962 , steam engines had given way to diesel locomotives and practically the whole of the system 's signalling had been renewed . |
| 22 | He had seen the whole pattern of crime change in the Oswaldston area in the course of his career : crimes that grew out of hunger and desperation had given way to crimes that grew out of affluence , greed , imitation and boredom . |
| 23 | China 's rift with Moscow , and other evidence of the breakdown of Soviet control in the Communist bloc , had given encouragement to de Gaulle 's own policy of greater independence within the Western alliance . |
| 24 | Who had given information to Brückner 's wife ? |
| 25 | She had given tea to Phil . |
| 26 | To remove the distinction completely would seem to undermine the insights that had given force to Bakhtin 's earlier criticism . |
| 27 | Although the 200 soldiers and police officers in the Fort had been supplied with provisions by the Sri Lankan Air Force throughout the siege , conditions had been harsh and in addition a number of soldiers had fallen victim to LTTE snipers . |
| 28 | Again it seems probable that this experienced pilot had fallen victim to Müncheberg , who claimed one Hurricane at 1306 , reporting ‘ the fighting spirit of the British pilot was fantastic ; he tried , although very badly hit , to still attack a Ju88 ( sic ) . ’ |
| 29 | Then , after that humiliation , he had added insult to injury by saying she 'd be perfectly safe with him ! |
| 30 | The memory of the terrible moment she had come face to face with Salt rolled over her . |