Example sentences of "had [vb pp] to the other " in BNC.
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| 1 | When my father tired of the pretence involved in this relationship ( for he was n't as weak as they had tacitly agreed ) he had hastened to the other extreme and married a woman who , as my mother was fond of remarking , you could pour into a jug . |
| 2 | The King , understandably enough , did not thank Asquith for implying that he would deviate from the role of strict constitutionality by denying to Labour what he had given to the other parties . |
| 3 | And the same had applied to the other electric fires in the house . |
| 4 | He did n't know ‘ what statement Mr. Gibbon had made to the other gentlemen or what reasoning they could have employed so as to sign a paper declaring the fact of urinous vomiting to be utterly impossible — here I must be at issue with them believing as I do … from my little physiological knowledge , that vomiting of urine for 26 weeks is by no means impossible … ’ . |
| 5 | For Vincent , it rankled most that his sensitive brother had defected to the other side , seeing him as the cause of discord and anxiety at home , just as ‘ they ’ did . |
| 6 | She wondered if this coat had ever been on a train before , when it had belonged to the other child . |
| 7 | In fact , within two years I had gone to the other extreme , washing shorts for lads who were old enough to do it for themselves , and baking cakes for the sole purpose of giving them away . |
| 8 | By the 16th century they had gone to the other extreme and were namby-pamby , play-acting affairs without genuine combat . |
| 9 | Lord Sagramoso 's writ had run to the other barren planets of Karka 's Sun , and to those of its runtish red dwarf binary twin , Karka Secundus , including some small mining world in orbit around the twin . |
| 10 | She wondered what had happened to the other pairs of boots . |
| 11 | His friend Okawi had signalled to the other canoes by gently shaking his thumb in the direction of the sleeping animals . |