Example sentences of "had [verb] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless some merchants had withdrawn to the country , while continuing to manage their businesses there must have been significant investment in urban industry and commerce by the agricultural sector to maintain the balance between town and country in West Sussex . |
| 2 | a legendary monster said to have been born to a wealthy lady who had referred to a beggar 's child as a nasty pig . |
| 3 | Allard had referred to the work of Kupka at the Salon des Indépendants as ‘ post-Cubist fantasies ’ , while at the Section d'Or Vauxcelles singled out as representative of the worst and most outrageous tendencies Duchamp 's Le Roi et la Reine entourés de nus vites . |
| 4 | poets had referred to the riches of the east for many years , but in the early seventeenth century ‘ My America , my new-found-land ’ seemed a more effective phrase to represent emotional force and involvement . |
| 5 | The resolution as passed on Aug. 25 represented a significant modification of the US draft , which had referred to the use of " such minimum force as may be necessary " but was changed at Chinese insistence to read " measures commensurate to the specific circumstances " . |
| 6 | Tom had referred to the place as ‘ George 's smoking room . |
| 7 | The Home Secretary , Kenneth Clarke had referred to the need to do something about the really persistent , nasty little juvenile offenders . |
| 8 | A statement in early September 1989 by the National Assembly Speaker , Saadi Medhi Saleh , had referred to the regime 's commitment to a multiparty system , although decisions regarding the political forces which would be permitted to take part in it would be left to the " near future " . |
| 9 | The County Manager explained that , as a full meeting of the County Council was not due before the statutory decision-making period was up , he had referred to the Planning Working Committee who decided that the Manager should clear the decision with the County Council Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson . |
| 10 | He , Harper and Smith had jumped to the ground when the fire started . |
| 11 | It was windy and the cedar , which he had likened to a galleon and Zosie to a witch , danced witch-like , its branches arms and leaping legs and flying skirts . |
| 12 | Two fences later , as the runners swerved left over the Canal Turn , he had sped to the front and was inexorably increasing his advantage and turning the Grand National into a glorious exhibition round . |
| 13 | It may even be that it was done to make possible the appointment of this particular scholar , a native of Bosnasarayi who had taught to the level . |
| 14 | They crashed to 4p on news that the recession-bashed property group had plunged to a £41.6m loss ( from £7.15m profit ) . |
| 15 | I knew that if I had to drive to the park or into the country first , then the walking would never get done except at weekends . |
| 16 | She had to drive to the end of the street to turn round ; when she passed Giles 's house on the way back the door was closed . |
| 17 | Faced with the threat of losing its Parliamentary representatives the NAC had to agree to a plebiscite of the membership on the issue . |
| 18 | The Easter Rising in Dublin and the government 's abortive plan to rush through a Home Rule settlement caused an even greater furore ; this time Bonar Law had to agree to a meeting of the Central Council , but only alter the cabinet had dropped the Home Rule idea , and with a stipulation in advance that questions would be allowed but not resolutions . |
| 19 | All had to agree to the investment , and at the last minute Stockport , the only council where Labour had lost overall control to a mixture of Tories and Liberals , vetoed the decision . |
| 20 | However , the Khmers Rouges opposed the Sihanouk-Hun Sen arrangement , arguing that the SOC had to agree to the UN plan in full . |
| 21 | Once an estate had devolved to the heir , a legatee per vindicationem was immediately able to vindicate the object from the heir , for the legatee was himself owner . |
| 22 | Her third single — SAW 's version of her old favourite , Little Eva 's ‘ The Loco-Motion ’ , — had soared to the number two slot maintaining her record of getting her releases in the top two . |
| 23 | He shaded his eyes and blinked for a few seconds until he had adjusted to the change . |
| 24 | It was only when his eyes had adjusted to the brightness that Dexter could assess Stephen Blufton properly . |
| 25 | ln that time , the sixty men had adjusted to the soldiers ' normal routine of work at night and lie-up during the day . |
| 26 | Either that , or my eyes had adjusted to the gloom . |
| 27 | There , when our eyes had adjusted to the gloom , we found the world of the river that we had just left . |
| 28 | This continued each day for three months , by which time the cycles of the recipients had adjusted to the rhythm of the donor . |
| 29 | But whereas Packford had adjusted to the age of new technology and the design possibilities it offered , Sutton remained wedded , at heart , to the old hot-metal approach . |
| 30 | Now that his eyes had adjusted to the light , Patrick could just about make out the vague shape of the young woman before him , her face a dim grey against the paler shape of her nightdress . |