Example sentences of "had [verb] [to-vb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wigan had intended to spring the former Great Britain captain on an unsuspecting St Helens , their arch-rivals , on Boxing Day . |
| 2 | He had read that , at the exclusive Beefsteak Club in London , every steward was addressed as George , and the colonel had decided to adopt the same rule to save people from remembering unnecessary names when stewards were changed . |
| 3 | Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif announced on Dec. 13 that Pakistan had decided to recognize the former Soviet Moslem republic of Azerbaijan . |
| 4 | Organic chemists had been troubled and had had to overcome the same semantic problems a century earlier ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 5 | Duncan had wanted to wait the few hours it would take to fix the Citation and run checks on it , but Myeloski was anxious to get to Tobolsk . |
| 6 | They won by applying themselves to the job in hand and , if they had continued to do the same in the Tests , it might have been an interesting summer . |
| 7 | The Roker manager had planned to watch the former Spurs midfielder in action last week , but ran a check instead on Sheffield Wednesday 's Danny Wilson . |
| 8 | On April 17 a Lebanese newspaper reported , citing Sudanese government sources , that the plotters had planned to reinstall the former President Jaafer al-Nemery and that the Cairo-based opposition umbrella group , the National Democratic Alliance ( NDA ) , had known of the plot and had sought to arrange a meeting between Nemery and Garang . |
| 9 | The CNAA , he and others believed , had made great progress in improving the standards of business studies , and had begun to do the same for management studies , but ‘ the job of improving management studies has hardly begun . |
| 10 | The fact that three of these families had been moderately wealthy in Palestine and had managed to acquire the same social status in their exile — that they behaved and looked like millions of middle-class couples in Europe , or indeed in Israel — only compounded my error . |