Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This would mean we had given in to vandalism and bad behaviour , ’ he said . |
| 2 | ‘ [ The eunuch ] waited until the hour Shah Jehan had sat down to dinner , ’ wrote Manucci . |
| 3 | Zeno had looked out to sea while a few words were exchanged , then laid a hand on Carey 's arm , as if about to hurry him along . |
| 4 | I wandered in from time to time looking , usually , for something which was out of print or which no other bookseller had come around to stocking . |
| 5 | The Vicar had come round to tea and was talking to Tommy and his mother about his daughter . |
| 6 | Besides , it had come on to rain , and the prospect of arriving home soaking wet to find my housemates Trisha and Brian curled up in a post-coital stupor in front of the TV was more than I could bear , so I swallowed my pride and went back inside . |
| 7 | The father pleaded with the elder brother and tried to point out to him that it was only right to celebrate for it was as if the younger son had come back to life from the dead . |
| 8 | She looked at the baby , also drenched in tears , and found he had come back to life . |
| 9 | It was as if Lady Lavinia herself had come back to life , and sat staring at her out of the malevolence in her soul . |
| 10 | He told the doctors all about how my dad had come back to life in this grey cardigan and had told him the secrets of the universe . |
| 11 | When Angel One had reported back to Dragon Control early on the day following the destruction of his Bethlehem House base , the Controller had been unable to keep the malicious satisfaction out of his voice when he had berated him for his ignominious failure , as he put it , in allowing his entire organisation to be destroyed by unforeseen enemy action . |
| 12 | Stephen had been told he was needed in the factory which had turned over to war work but Joe and Terry had applied to join the Irish Guards , and Eileen to join the WAAFs . |
| 13 | The bill poster had moved on to dryer pastures and all the gas-lamps were now lit . |
| 14 | It was the end of Ramadan and the Old City , funereal for the last month , had sprung back to life with a vengeance . |
| 15 | They found the cutting and scrambled down the slopes of the cutting enjoying the freedom , the old hut looked interesting and they soon explored the area , that had reverted back to nature . |
| 16 | Charlotte had gone on to university ; Luke was now at sixth-form college . |
| 17 | He had decided it was not a subject for honest men , and had gone on to history , where he had developed a real interest in local history and a talent for getting old working-class men and women talking about the customs and social conditions of their childhood . |
| 18 | She recounted how they had gone up to Master Allingham 's chamber and , finding the door locked , had ordered the workmen from the yard below to force the chamber . |
| 19 | Afterwards , when the boys had gone up to bed , he told Josh that Mabel 's death was an act of retribution on the part of Almighty God . ’ |
| 20 | Last night , after her parents had gone up to bed , and Aubrey very tactfully made himself scarce , I had a chance to ask her . |
| 21 | The teachers had suddenly ended their strike , and the four youngest children had gone back to school . |
| 22 | Steve had gone back to school , where he kept his head down and avoided his enemies ; he felt as if the whole school was his enemy . |
| 23 | His work finished , or perhaps even abandoned , he had gone back to Water Gypsy , expecting her to be there . |
| 24 | Nina Rozanov , tired , had gone off to bed . |
| 25 | The next morning , after Master had gone off to school for the day , Sergeant decided to pay a visit to Riverbank to see his new friend Anabelle Hedgehog . |
| 26 | Perhaps she would learn a little more from them when Harry had gone off to sea again , an event she had learnt , over the years , to look forward to . |
| 27 | Er and this this case the there was a fire in a flat , the chap had gone out to work , we did n't know he 'd gone out to work , so we broke First of all we informed the fire brigade was on the way , we broke down the door , quick look in the flat , best possible way we could look , and the fire brigade turned up and dealt with the flat . |
| 28 | He reminded her of her concern when she had heard her father had gone out to lunch the day he died , and he put it to her that she had guessed whom he had met . |
| 29 | Today John had gone out to lunch before her and she ate her sandwiches quickly , then started out on the brisk quarter of an hour 's walk to her uncle 's church . |
| 30 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |