Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third parties would be bound by the regime and would also be entitled to invoke its provisions and to exercise any conferred right , provided they had expressly consented to it , or their consent could be implied through acquiescence . |
| 2 | In his memoirs he admitted that he had secretly aspired to it for decades , but had not pressed the issue for tactical reasons ( because it would have made him vulnerable to the charge of Bonapartism and perhaps also , as Debré argued in his memoirs , because popular election of the president in the circumstances of 1958 would have placed a majority of votes in the hands of the peoples of the French Community ) . |
| 3 | Only , I wish I had ever shown some sign of affection ; I wish I had perhaps written to her — even if only a card ( and even though I was rather far down in the family hierarchy ) . |
| 4 | Before this single , the rather distanced American rock press failed to probe deeply into the phenomenon of The Smiths and had constantly referred to them as some kind of wacko gay outfit , English eccentrics playing lightweight rock . |
| 5 | They had all come to her , one by one , during the evening , an evening harried with telephone calls — ‘ I do n't think , ’ Anna had said at one point , ‘ that we have eaten an uninterrupted meal in twenty-one years ’ — and they had all explained to her how awful they felt , and how guilty they felt about feeling awful , because it was n't anybody 's fault , and that made it worse , having nobody to blame . |
| 6 | They had all come to her , one by one , during the evening , an evening harried with telephone calls — ‘ I do n't think , ’ Anna had said at one point , ‘ that we have eaten an uninterrupted meal in twenty-one years ’ — and they had all explained to her how awful they felt , and how guilty they felt about feeling awful , because it was n't anybody 's fault , and that made it worse , having nobody to blame . |
| 7 | Sue 's skin , thought Marion , Sue 's skin , so why do I feel as if I 'm the one , as if it all happened in my room , as if it had all happened to me ? |
| 8 | They had all lied to her . |
| 9 | And now it had all come to nothing . |
| 10 | If the truth were known , he had only acceded to her wishes because it took him away from her , allowing him access to libraries , bookshops and students of all races and creeds — many of them Irish . |
| 11 | I 'd been expecting her to put up a stiff rearguard action , protesting that holidays were one thing and everyday life another , that she had only surrendered to me in a moment of weakness which she would regret for the rest of her life , and so on and so forth . |
| 12 | ‘ You once said if there was anything you could do to help me I had only to come to you and ask . |
| 13 | Shiva had called it that , but in his mouth it had not been the hackneyed expression it would have been if an English person had so referred to it . |
| 14 | She paused , looking at him reflectively , and then asked : ‘ Do n't you think you had better speak to your father about all this ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You had better come to my room , then . ’ |
| 16 | Then towards the end she had lost her temper completely and declared that if the listeners wanted to find out what it was really all about , they had better write to her . |
| 17 | RENEE SMITH , widow of the late Eric Smith — ‘ Mr Orrell ’ to most people — came across an interesting series of correspondence when going through her husband 's effects which had obviously appealed to his great sense of humour . |
| 18 | But Mark had now become absorbed in an idea for a sermon that had suddenly come to him . |
| 19 | The second one — well , I almost hoped it would be a little shocked , as they often are , because of the idea that had suddenly come to me . ’ |
| 20 | It had suddenly occurred to her that he probably had a family , a wife . |
| 21 | But what had suddenly occurred to her was that , with her having a day off tomorrow , if the tissue-typing results came she would n't be able to ring Mrs Hazell , as she 'd promised . |
| 22 | Because it had suddenly occurred to her that Guy Sterne was bothering to justify himself like this only because his relationship with Nicola Schreider was threatened if he did n't . |
| 23 | It had suddenly occurred to him that he might have underestimated Gazzer : he remembered that unexpected defiance , last night , on the Wheel . |
| 24 | My mind had suddenly switched to my dinner date with the French family . |
| 25 | For the North African church had long clung to its own traditions of autonomy with a tenacity which made it a power with which the emperors and popes had to reckon . |
| 26 | Its creator 's reaction to it had merely added to my fright . |
| 27 | The Lord of the Manor had apparently lied to us . |
| 28 | Much as he wished that Aunt Tossie might keep her mind on the Form Book , where their interests in beating the Handicapper ran together , he had nevertheless acceded to her insistence on a party , a small house party , for Nicandra 's first real ball . |
| 29 | She asked him why he could not leave her alone , in view of what the other man had already done to her , but he turned off the lights and told her to undress . |
| 30 | This followed a serious accident at the reactor on Oct. 19 which had already led to its temporary closure [ see p. 36984 ] . |