Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Papa and Mama , informed , were coming over , the lawyers had gathered to draw up the marriage settlement , everything seemed set fair .
2 did not accept that the Vice-Chancellor had intended to lay down a rigid limitation on the exercise of the court 's discretion .
3 did not accept that the Vice-Chancellor in Cloverbay had intended to lay down a rule that no order could be made under section 236 if the purpose for which the office-holder claimed reasonably to require information sought included obtaining information the receipt of which would go beyond a reconstitution of knowledge which the company once had and was entitled in law to possess .
4 Haymarket had intended to set up a computer business with over 20 staff to build its own PCs under the brand Eyecon and sell them through a dealer network .
5 ITTO had intended to build up a consensus towards achieving full sustainability in tropical forestry by the year 2000 .
6 ‘ Wow , I 'm glad you called , man , ’ said Hopper who thought his friend had telephoned to patch up a quarrel they 'd had before Fonda left for Canada .
7 At the same time it was announced Leckpatick chief executive Malcolm Woods had resigned to take up a new position as managing director of John Kelly , Belfast .
8 The visiting pilots had come to ferry back a score of U.S. fighter aircraft flown up from the States as part of the American lend-lease programme .
9 This had to be her mother 's bed , she surmised , and the doctor had forgotten to draw back the curtains .
10 I thought the doctor had forgotten to draw back the curtain , and I was just about to do it when I heard his voice .
11 In April 1945 , Truman 's government played host to representatives from 50 countries at San Francisco who had met to draw up the Charter for the United Nations .
12 Reports in early March had indicated that the IAEA had sought to play down the significance of a recent report submitted to the UN in which it was claimed that Iraq was offering " better co-operation " to IAEA inspectors .
13 They had threatened to blow up the plane unless their demands for the release of political prisoners were met , but the deadline of 6pm passed without incident .
14 The hijackers , who had threatened to blow up the aircraft , surrendered to Thai authorities in the early hours of Oct. 7 ; none of the 79 passengers or four crew was injured .
15 In the meantime various troubles had flared up throughout the world -America had become involved in Korea ; France was involved in both Algiers ( who were seeking independence ) and Indo-China ; whilst Britain became involved in retaliation against the Egyptian government which had threatened to take over the Suez Canal .
16 The restoration of the monarchy , he said , would bring back the communism and anarchy which had threatened to take over the country before the Civil War .
17 Just before that vote Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats , the junior coalition partner , had reached agreement on tax reforms which had been the subject of three months of negotiation and which had threatened to bring down the government .
18 Doctors had decided to carry out a forceps delivery on her mother 15 year old Sally Taylor after a long labour .
19 Also in January I reported that the Queen had decided to give up the bottle .
20 ( B ) The conference had decided to set up a national assembly composed of 123 members based on the number of constituencies existing before 1969 with a speaker and two deputy speakers .
21 It was also reported that the Governor of Sokoto had decided to take up the issue with the federal authorities in Lagos .
22 Albert Popple had decided to go down the Lamb and Flag after walking round the block several times .
23 As the long-running show begins its final series tonight , TODAY had decided to send out a reconnaissance party to see how the real Nouvion — the name was chosen by in Nouvion writers Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft sticking a pin into a map of France — lived up to its TV image .
24 However , by the end of May , the Russian government had decided to pull out the troops .
25 The USA had moved to send out the invitations only after the Israelis and the Arabs had failed to agree on a time and venue .
26 He had offered to top up the money he had given her before by another twenty pounds and she had accepted with polite reluctance .
27 The artillery officer wondered why no one had thought to blow up the bridge which crossed the River Sambre in the centre of the town , but he supposed there must be fords close to Charleroi which would have made the destruction of the fine stone bridge into a futile and even petulant gesture .
28 When Boyd was a child of eight , he and his father had had to sit out a tornado while visiting a German friend who had settled in Kansas .
29 By the time I had been an intern for a few more months , doing my rounds in my white coat with stethoscope dangling round my neck ( and feeling very important ) , Father had had to close down the second branch , leaving — for the time being — only the original shop which he had opened near the Market Place where the annual Goose Fair was held .
30 ( God , or the Deity , existed because somebody had had to work out the mathematics in the first place . )
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