Example sentences of "had [verb] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men who had formed associations to go hill-walking , cycling , even mountaineering , clutching pamphlets like Initial Efforts on the Boulder Face , or Coping with Crevices , and spent long days toiling up braes and free-wheeling down glens , now had a wage to earn . |
| 2 | His father , a seaman , had jumped ship to seek a better life when Bulgaria had been on the brink of civil war in the 1920s . |
| 3 | As a child the continuous moves had taught Eva to leave behind the place they had been and give herself to the new . |
| 4 | When she had taught Sarah to read and write it had been her textbook , and it would have broken her heart if she 'd heard such a tirade after all her patient teaching . |
| 5 | It was a family house after all , no doubt Hilbert had intended Adam to share it with the rest of the family . |
| 6 | Poland had supported the allies in the War , who in turn had intended Poland to benefit by the agreement once Poland became independent . |
| 7 | Adam of Bremen reports that Cnut had intended Swegen to rule Norway , Harthacnut Denmark , and Harold England , and the Historia Regum attributed to Symeon of Durham that he made Harold the English king , but the Encomium says that he not only promised Emma that any son of hers should be heir , but later on oath pledged the whole kingdom subject to him to Harthacnut , who received oaths of loyalty from English nobles . |
| 8 | He pulls the hair of a young uniformed constable , shouting at him , ‘ If God had intended policemen to have hair he would n't have created barbers ’ . |
| 9 | Mr Ebrahim Asvat , brother of the murdered man , said yesterday the family had consulted lawyers to re-open the case . |
| 10 | The future of the Swiss nuclear industry had been in doubt for a number of years , particularly since the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union [ see pp.34460-62 ] , and in 1988 the government had halted plans to build a nuclear power station at Kaiseraugst near Basel [ see p. 36499 ] . |
| 11 | It was the Guga Hunters who had chartered Viking to land the men and supplies ' on Sula Sgeir and return for them at a specified date . |
| 12 | The meeting was timely because Hamish Kidd , a Cambridge chemical engineer who had spent a long period in general management consultancy with P-E Consulting Group , had developed systems to introduce executive search into P-E when it was sanctioned as an allowable technique by the Management Consultants Association ( MCA ) . |
| 13 | As early as 1917 Roxburgh demonstrated that many municipal legal systems had developed devices to avoid the restrictions and inconveniences caused by a rigid adherence to the analogous rule that contracts bind only parties to them , a process that continues . |
| 14 | In Brussels yesterday NATO sources said the alliance had completed plans to enforce a no-fly zone over Bosnia , with the United Nations expected to approve the use of allied fighters this week to shoot down Serb or other planes flying over the republic . |
| 15 | Not out of Steve , anyway , who was saying nothing much , only affirming that he had bashed Charley to save his mother ; he had ‘ guessed ’ where she was . |
| 16 | So poor that he had to borrow money to buy a horse , he found Mehmed II on the road from Istanbul to Edirne and was introduced to the sultan by the vezir Mahmud Papa ( Grand Vezir 858–72/1454–68 and 877–8/1472–3 ) . |
| 17 | THE winner of the jackpot prize of IR£418,000 in the Republic 's midweek lottery draw had to borrow money to buy an airline ticket to fly to Dublin from London to collect her prize . |
| 18 | We did lose four equity partners along the way and had to borrow £300,000 to repay their capital accounts , but , with a turnover of around £2m , we did not consider it a problem . ’ |
| 19 | Wallace , who had broken training to help at the birth of a foal on Tuesday at her Devon farm , faded near the end after previously looking strong throughout . |
| 20 | A spokesman for BT yesterday refused to comment on whether the company had received instructions to cut lines . |
| 21 | By the time they had received instructions to follow and observe , they had lost it in a swirl of speed at one hundred and forty miles an hour . |
| 22 | In the first stage of training the subjects had received instructions to emit a given response ( a key-press in one study , a word in another ) to one of the tones and to the light , but to emit a different response to the other tone . |
| 23 | Only 29% of those with hypertension had received treatment to achieve normal blood pressure levels . |
| 24 | Costs per job in schemes where developers had received assistance to improve property for use by others were much lower . |
| 25 | For example the head of Craft , Design and Technology had received money to replace inadequate stock and an increase in capitation , whilst the head of Home Economics was in the process of gaining badly-needed equipment — although much of this was still in the ‘ pipeline ’ at the time of the interview . |
| 26 | Professor Richard Alderslade , Trent Regional Health Authority 's regional medical officer , said the authorities had received approval to make payments ‘ without delay ’ . |
| 27 | Further it suggested that of those people who did not go to a lawyer , a higher proportion had received help from outside the household , and of that group only one-quarter had received advice to go to a lawyer which they had ignored Such contrary evidence does not denigrate the value of pre-legal advice , but suggests that , as would be expected , it is not the only significant factor in determining whether , and if so why and how , people seek legal advice . |
| 28 | In 1598 the Privy Council had to instruct commissioners to produce more realistic returns and to assess J.P.s at a minimum of £20 . |
| 29 | Now the rumours were widespread about Hitler 's fits and frenzies of rage , that he had to be accompanied everywhere by a doctor specializing in mental illness and Himmler had given orders to allow no one to see him , and that he was wounded and in hospital . |
| 30 | Police had to erect barriers to keep crowds back as Charles was warmly greeted by hundreds of wellwishers as he arrived at Dundee 's City Square . |