Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voice had veered from exasperation to incredulity . |
| 2 | No one had heard of access to ink print information in those days and as I was the only blind student there I did n't feel I had any support to ask for it to be made available . |
| 3 | They had travelled by train to Peking , via Russia and Outer Mongolia ! |
| 4 | Where at that date , any payment was accruing due , ie where payment in arrears was stipulated , the creditor may prove for the amount which would have fallen due if the debt had accrued from day to day ( r 6.112(2) ) . |
| 5 | Between these , gold-dark , dark-gold and violent pink , lay Lady Rose Martindale , solid but not fat or for in less , indeed very woman-shaped , in pink-and-brown striped silk bathing suit , with gold hair spattered softly over the brown flesh of her shoulders and whitish sand speckled on the gleam of her thighs where she had rolled from side to side . |
| 6 | However , although the boundary existed , its position had varied from case to case . |
| 7 | But by January the pound had dropped in value to 1.05 . |
| 8 | At first their mother 's sister had come from time to time but she and Moran had quarrelled . |
| 9 | Jess , who had come in response to the message brought by Midnight from Miss Jarman , stood in the doorway appalled . |
| 10 | If it is withdrawn , then the advertiser is in breach of contract with any bidder who had come in response to the advertisement . |
| 11 | European stock markets were stronger , with market operators relieved that Wall Street did not repeat Tuesday 's sharp 83-point drop , which had come in reaction to early indications of what Mr Clinton had in mind . |
| 12 | By the time the girl who had rung in response to his advertisement had arrived on the scene , the horse was already bridled and saddled . |
| 13 | When she had rung in response to the advertisement card on the board in the Tadley Post Office , she had n't thought of where the classes might be . |
| 14 | Moreover , since , under section 6(4) all those who had applied for admission to the school had expressed a statutory preference for that school , the rejection of any one of those applicants involved a failure to give effect to the preference of one or more parents . |
| 15 | By the end of May around 15,000 former BCCI depositors had applied for compensation to the UK 's Deposit Protection Board . |
| 16 | It had struggled from beginning to end , had depended entirely on charity throughout its four-year existence , and now the girls working there were being irresponsibly left destitute . |
| 17 | Meanwhile the Republic , effectively abandoned by its fellow democracies , had turned for help to the Soviet Union . |
| 18 | Just under a century later , in 869–70 , the Emperor Basil II , though he had turned for help to Pope Hadrian II , was responsible for summoning the fourth Council of Constantinople . |
| 19 | In the month since the decision had been taken that she would come to school here , her feelings had turned from foreboding to anticipation . |
| 20 | William Webster , director of the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) , had said in evidence to the House armed services committee on Dec. 5 that sanctions " have dealt a serious blow " , shutting off " more than 90 per cent of imports and 97 per cent of exports " but that there was " no assurance or guarantee " that economic hardship would bring a change in Iraqi policy . |
| 21 | Only a few weeks before , he had said in response to a publicity interviewers ' assertion that his father , John , had abandoned the family when he was born : ‘ My father and mother separated when I was a baby . |
| 22 | In a statement issued on Nov. 10 Worner had said in reference to the opening of borders between East and West Germany ( see p. 37024 ) that " … we see this as part of an inevitable process ' . |
| 23 | Ace had retreated from Kate , and she was made painfully aware that his reservations about her had grown in proportion to her failure to find out why his car was under-performing . |
| 24 | In France , for example , the domestic CP market was launched at around the same time , but by the end of 1990 it had grown in size to FF165 billion , around four times the size of the UK market ( see Table 6.10 for a comparison of commercial paper markets in Europe , the ECP market and the US CP market ) . |
| 25 | In the introduction he had written in reference to Jakobson and Jones " s " shakespeare 's verbal art in Th'expence of spirit " that " There is too much information , not all of which is relevant to a critical understanding of the text " ( p. 7 ) . |
| 26 | Later still , the analyst suggests that Fraser may want to offer reparation , by writing this book , for the guilt he had felt in relation to his father , and Fraser asks : ‘ For wanting to destroy him so I could have my mother to myself ? ’ |
| 27 | In the old world the race of Man had risen from savagery to being the dominant civilisation in two short millennia . |
| 28 | Bombed out of one small premises , Grandpa had moved from factory to factory , finally ending up in what was now Belmodes . |
| 29 | Flaubert was emblematic of a further development in modernization , in which the referent of the work of art , having evolved from the timeless and ideal to the contingent , now had moved from contingency to virtual insignificance . |
| 30 | He tried to remember what the weather had been like in the last week and realized he had no idea ; like many city-dwellers he had moved from flat to car to office without registering any variation . |