Example sentences of "had [vb pp] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attempt had failed , and the queen had withdrawn to sanctuary with her youngest son , the duke of York . |
| 2 | The attempt had failed , and the queen had withdrawn to sanctuary with her youngest son , the duke of York . |
| 3 | She had arranged to lunch with friends at the Lion d'Or at Cologny and call in to the clinic afterwards to see one or two patients . |
| 4 | All Penny Seu Chen could tell me when I returned on Friday evening to find you gone was that you and he had flown to Hualien for the weekend . ’ |
| 5 | The prominence he had given to instruction in science had evidently made matters worse . |
| 6 | Away over towards the canal beyond the golf course , a bridge of coloured light arced to the silent earth just about where her husband would be just now , crouched in his little watchman 's hut , at the foot of the night rainbow , where a piece of heaven had fallen to earth in Ruchill . |
| 7 | Soap opera had come to life within touching distance . |
| 8 | He saw , as though some wall painting had come to life before his eyes , the glitter of steel and the minute clusters of rainbow colours just moving over the crest of one rise , to descend into the next bowl ; and riding towards them , negligently like men out hawking , he saw a smaller group , no more than half a dozen mounted men , who had been until this moment hidden from them by the lie of the land . |
| 9 | His celebration after Ronnie Whelan had scored a simple equaliser was the perfect demonstration of how close his Liverpool team had come to elimination from the FA Cup . |
| 10 | History appeared irrevocably on the side of the ageing generation of Communists who had come to maturity in the era of the great depression and Hitler . |
| 11 | After a lot of pestering I was allowed to speak to two friends who had come to court with me , and I was appalled by having to speak to them through a glass and metal grille thing . |
| 12 | Hoyte himself had come to office in the last elections in December 1985 [ see p. 34162 ] , while his People 's National Congress ( PNC ) had been in power since independence in 1966 . |
| 13 | The centre-right minority government which had come to office in October [ see p. 38542 ] proposed major expenditure cuts in the 1992-93 budget introduced on Jan. 10 . |
| 14 | The former had come to Chant in a derelict house in Clerkenwell ; about that there was no ambiguity . |
| 15 | Lord ( Cyril ) Radcliffe , a brilliant barrister who had come to attention by his achievements in the wartime civil service , succeeded Waverley that year , and lasted until 1977 . |
| 16 | Superintendent if any other information had come to light over the next few hours would you have reconsidered the matter ? |
| 17 | It is Alan Usher 's contention that if this evidence had come to light before the trial , a third opinion could have been obtained from a specialist paediatric pathologist . |
| 18 | The affair had come to light in late January when a United Kingdom businessman , Paul Pearson , representing a South African-registered company , Dove Trading International , was stopped and searched at Moscow 's Sheremetyevo Airport on his way out of the country . |
| 19 | The languages of earth — English , Italian , Hindustani and Chinese particularly — were known in some variation everywhere , though it seemed the Autarch — who had come to power in the confusion following the failed Reconciliation — favoured English , which was the preferred linguistic currency almost everywhere now . |
| 20 | Col. Jean-Baptiste Bagaza , who had come to power in a coup in 1976 , and had been elected President by direct suffrage in August 1984 , was overthrown in early September 1987 in a bloodless armed forces coup led by Maj. Pierre Buyoya [ see pp. 35631-32 ] . |
| 21 | Lekhanya had come to power in 1986 after a South African-backed coup , and initially restored nominal legislative and executive powers to the King [ see pp. 34786-89 ] . |
| 22 | It was widely believed that this provision had been specifically inserted to prevent a return to office by Ríos Montt , an evangelical Protestant who had come to power in the wake of a military coup and ruled as dictator from March 1982 to August 1983 [ see pp. 31605-07 ; 32494-96 ] . |
| 23 | On May 10 the government of Gro Harlem Brundtland , which had come to power in November 1990 [ see p. 37868 ] , announced a three-year infrastructure spending package to revive economic growth and reduce unemployment . |
| 24 | The first major demonstration against the three-party ruling coalition which had come to power in April 1990 [ see p. 37380 ] erupted in September 1990 . |
| 25 | His ruling Nepali Congress party had come to power in May 1991 ( in the first free elections in 32 years — see p. 38193 ) promising to raise living standards , but now faced the prospect of defeat in local elections due in May and June . |
| 26 | Only in Queensland , where the ALP had come to power in 1989 after more than 30 years of corrupt National Party rule , was the party free of scandal and able to record healthy public opinion ratings . |
| 27 | Now in the Black Sea region the dynasty , which had come to power after the Persian Wars , ruled a principality centred on Pantikapaion until 438 , when they were succeeded by a new one founded by one Spartokos ( Diod. xi.31 ) . |
| 28 | For very soon , cam the news that the wandering band of All Blacks had come to earth in Vichy , France , and had played a match against a French selection . |
| 29 | Detained under a section of the Mental Health Act in the first place , these patients had responded to treatment in hospital , and their leave was subject to a requirement that treatment should be continued outside hospital . |
| 30 | On this occasion Cooke led a delegation to see O'Neill who had responded to pressure from a Unionist MP , Austin Ardill , to meet the men . |