Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she had protested to Lord Wardley , who was chief billeting officer for that part of Northumberland , he had referred her to a minion who , in turn , had taken great pleasure in pointing out that she could , if she preferred , have some evacuees from Gateshead but , either way , her spare room could not remain empty when everyone was required to make a war effort . |
| 2 | Her concerned employers had referred her to a doctor , who had put her on the contraceptive pill but , as was normal practice , she had not been examined or questioned . |
| 3 | For a moment she could n't think what he meant , then she remembered with dismay that she 'd already asked him to join her and Elaine and a few of the island friends they 'd made on the new power-boat Stephen had treated them to as the hotel neared completion . |
| 4 | Did Obispal 's associates realize that the rashly rampaging Inquisitor was only present in this auditorium courtesy of Jaq 's Assassin who had plucked him to safety ? |
| 5 | G. had traced it to an ice cream works employing about six men . |
| 6 | The decision arose from a claim lodged with the ECJ by a group of mainly Spanish-owned fishing companies , employing vessels registered as British , that amendments to the UK 1988 Merchant Shipping Act which excluded 95 of their vessels from British waters were illegal under EC law and had exposed them to financial ruin . |
| 7 | They had all learned from him ; she and Lisa still spoke , stylistically , as he had taught them to . |
| 8 | All the same , the theme is still national honour and personal loyalty , the lessons which Dick teaches to Anastasia as successfully as he had taught them to the weak but responsive Carol . |
| 9 | Emerson 's essay on ‘ history ’ begins , ‘ There is one mind common to all individual men ’ , whereas Eliot 's anthropological reading had taught him to be wary of the nineteenth-century assumption of what was ‘ in the words of M. Lévy-Bruhl , the uniformity of mind ’ . |
| 10 | His background had taught him to be sober , frugal and methodical . |
| 11 | And Preston very dubious , because she did n't look like she had a baby in her tummy and experience had taught him to be very sceptical about any information his family gave out , especially on the subject of babies and where they came from . |
| 12 | Mother 's own experience as a child had taught her to be self-sufficient and she needed a lot of support and practice at learning how to meet Maria 's emotional and social needs . |
| 13 | It was only when the colours gave way to plain gold before subsiding into diminishing fountains of silver that she realised she had moved closer to Rune , seeking instinctive protection against the sharp noise of the exploding rockets and that he had gathered her to his strong male body , pinning her to his side by the power of his arm , his hand firmly pressed against her waist . |
| 14 | The house wore a permanently uncompleted air as if , sixty years before , the builder had intended it to be part of a pair of semi-detached houses but had run out of money or enthusiasm before he started on the second one . |
| 15 | The German scientist who around 1906 synthesized novocaine , the first non-addictive narcotic , had intended it to be used in major surgical procedures like amputation . |
| 16 | By Friday she had arranged everything to Rob 's satisfaction , although as she handed Luke his notes for the meeting in York she still had some reservations about his reaction to his brother 's methods of expressing gratitude . |
| 17 | The members of this permanent staff had adjusted themselves to captivity , but prisoners passing through had only just been shot down and were still unsure and bewildered . |
| 18 | The tempo of a summer 's day had adjusted itself to the measured progress of the tournament through the placid dunes and sandhills . |
| 19 | He had thought no more about their excursion until Heather 's disappearance had recalled it to his mind — and been followed by Harry 's visit . |
| 20 | But the archaeologists ' obsession with the past had blinded them to the real cause of the lamentations they witnessed along the river . |
| 21 | Deng 's developmentalist stance had not always endeared him to Mao , but had aligned him to some extent with Premier Zhou , who also saw overly radical , leftist policies as a threat to China 's economic and social development . |
| 22 | On reaching Arcady , he 'd attempted to call Zambia 's old apartment and had explained himself to the woman who now lived there . |
| 23 | He had explained it to her , explained that there were great forces in the universe and that she was destined to serve them . |
| 24 | It was something else that was bothering him , something illogical that he could n't explain to the Captain until he had explained it to himself . |
| 25 | Ben had explained it to her . |
| 26 | ‘ I was under the impression that I had explained it to you . |
| 27 | His own terrible fear and anger had communicated itself to his father and shown him what the better part of valour was : keeping silent . |
| 28 | Not that her cousin 's health had relapsed , or anything like that , but her mood had communicated itself to the twins , who 'd been particularly fractious and difficult . |
| 29 | There was a wealth of passion in him , but whether — perhaps because of her very limited experience in these matters — something of her shyness had communicated itself to him or not , he had seemed to temper his passion , for the moment , to suit hers . |
| 30 | Daffodil , however , had fastened hers to her cleavage , the red , white and gold popping out now and again past the long-haired chinchillas . |