Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [to-vb] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The church was full of the women and girls who had attended the morning service and had decided to wait to see the wedding . |
| 2 | 15 She had good reason to suspect that it would , for long before the 1924 show opened , she had decided to try to convince the critics to change their ideas about her work by changing the nature of what she exhibited . |
| 3 | He loved the tough life of thrill and fear and his excellent war record had made it easy for him when , in 1941 he had decided to apply to join the newly formed Parachute Regiment . |
| 4 | From his point of view he had asked to go to see the gorillas and he had been told ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 5 | It had continued to seek to absorb the Saar even after the formation of the West German state , and relations between the two countries , collaboration in ECSC notwithstanding , were not entirely cordial . |
| 6 | In the final days of the crisis , financial institutions had begun to refuse to honour the warrants , thereby threatening to precipitate a widespread closure of state offices . |