Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also he was worried about a model he had arranged to hire through Mauve , and then doubted whether he could pay the price . |
| 2 | She described a strategy she had developed to deal with this : |
| 3 | Once in the park , Joyce 's mother had stopped to talk to another young woman while Joyce herself sat watching some birds pecking at the remains of a sandwich that someone had dropped on the path . |
| 4 | It seemed incongruous to Dexter , inappropriate when he knew they had come to talk about violent death . |
| 5 | Constance and Monsieur de Levantiére suddenly realised how much they had come to rely upon each other in the time that she had worked there . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , now that he had come to live in this new house he was aware that he would probably be an object of interest to his neighbours . |
| 7 | The costs of Mossadeq 's policies had come to seem to high to too many people and there was already widespread dissatisfaction with his rule , The CIA and M16 provided a spark , but the dry tinder was Iranian . |
| 8 | Although a traffic function would remain , the car would be demoted from the position of priority which it had come to hold in most streets . |
| 9 | To disclose whether or not a warrant has been issued in a particular case could establish means whereby those involved in serious crimes or espionage or subversion could learn the extent to which their activities had come to notice or — perhaps more damaging — could in some cases confirm whether their activities had come to notice at all . |
| 10 | Soon it began to create the steady whine that she had come to associate with this strange instrument . |
| 11 | With over half the British labour force by then state-employed , whether directly or indirectly , competitive private enterprise in a dynamic style inspired by Japan , West Germany and the United States had come to look to many , and with some reason , like a radical option . |
| 12 | Luther Reynolds clenched the sides of the chair , his large fists curling and uncurling , and his fiery dark eyes glaring at the determined face of David Miller , the stepson he had come to resent with such bitterness that he could taste it . |
| 13 | But I 'd never thought of us as really having to worry about money that much ; certainly I was used to getting more or less what I wanted and had come to think of this virtually as a right , the way only children are apt to if their parents are anything other than actively hostile to them . |
| 14 | ‘ In what way ? ’ he asked softly , his tone completely changed , as if he knew they had come to tread on sensitive ground . |
| 15 | Used my travel alarm for the first time having been appointed ‘ waker up ’ for breakfast — not a success as I had forgotten to resent for French time ( one hour ahead ) — many comments about my parentage . |
| 16 | In later life Dicey therefore felt that developments in society and politics were threatening the idea of the British constitution which he had sought to formulate in 1885 . |
| 17 | At the Somme memorial to those with no known grave , his granddaughter wants a posthumous pardon , to finally purge the shame her family had sought to hide for three generations . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've got this Unesco thing coming on — oh , here are the Fairfaxes , ’ he declared , as the door opened to admit a tall middle-aged man and an even taller woman , obviously husband and wife , who had grown to look like each other in a rather unfortunate way , their small heads and long stringy bodies seeming as if they must have combined the worst features of each . |
| 19 | The situation there is that the , there 're , if you have double rooms as doubles then there would be , we do have a relatively low occupancy but the committee had decided to move towards double rooms being used as single occupancy only and on the , I 've got the latest figures for the first of January in front of me just by ch really just by chance |
| 20 | Alyssia tried not to sound like one of those sceptics , but how she wished that she had decided to go into Nice instead and do some shopping . |
| 21 | The following day , Jan. 14 , however , State Department spokesperson Margaret Tutweiler described as a " definite change of position " the strict neutrality the US administration had decided to adopt on this question . |
| 22 | Against all medical advice a large and well-known British oil company had decided to break through time-honoured barriers of sex discrimination and employ this spunky lass , a liberated young lady and somewhat vociferous champion of equal rights for women , as their first ever female labourer . |
| 23 | Since his shock sacking , Fry had promised to sue for unfair dismissal , and he urged his players to report Flashman to the local police for threats he had made against them . |
| 24 | In a moment of high fervour I had offered to talk to that Mafia of old , the Winchester Quakers , on my experiences at the Bristol Cancer Help Centre . |
| 25 | Fenner , the Hull-based power transmission engineer , bought the stake when the original bid was announced and had offered to act as white knight to Armstrong and to distribute their fasteners through its own international network . |
| 26 | Shortly after his arrival he got together a conference of Anglo-Burmans , who agreed that when they returned to Burma they would ally themselves more closely with the people of the country rather than as exclusively with the British side of their heritage as they had tended to do in pre-war days . |
| 27 | She made a deliberate effort to relax : they would both have blown up if they had had to sit like that all evening , she thought . |
| 28 | Too determined for her own good really , which was why he had had to agree to last night in the first place . |
| 29 | According to Subaire the new party would serve Moslems in the enclave who for years had had to rely on other parties to include Moslem representatives among their candidates . |
| 30 | If evolutionary progress had had to rely on single-step selection , it would never have got anywhere . |