Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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1 | But my bit had yet to come ; I had no idea if we had sustained damage to the undercarriage , although we had three greens burning bright , I motored in as if to land on new-laid eggs ; all the crew , including Jock the engineer , were at crash stations and we landed " soft as a mouse 's instep " , as Spike used to say . |
2 | None the less , it is broadly speaking true that the Church had exalted the monarch in the tenth century , and abased him in the twelfth ; that the Church had taught obedience to him in the tenth century when ancient rights of resistance to a king who broke his subjects ' rights and liberties still flourished ; and that in the twelfth century Church and people exchanged ideas about the bases for the right of resistance . |
3 | But by the late 1960s world inflation had gathered pace to such an extent that most governments came to regard this as the major problem confront-ing them . |
4 | Japan had halted aid to Vietnam following the Vietnamese intervention in Cambodia in 1978 . |
5 | Apart from relief of intestinal obstruction he also experienced relief of dysphagia that supported the hypothesis that oesophagitis had developed secondary to vomiting in the presence of large bowel obstruction . |
6 | A tiny shaft of surprise jolted through him at the realisation that , this time , he had imputed courage to Isabel 's stoic control instead of calculated coldness . |
7 | The case , Cohen v. Cowles Media Co. , arose from the attempt of Dan Cohen , a Minnesota political operative , to sue two of the state 's largest newspapers for revealing that he had leaked information to them . |
8 | It was officially stated that 47 per cent of the members of the new central committee were aged under 49 , that four of them were women and that 41 per cent had received education to university level . |
9 | A Mr Ashton had given evidence to the Inquiry and quoted a third party , who appeared to criticise its works . |
10 | On Feb. 20 Rubio had given evidence to the economic commission of the Congress of Deputies . |
11 | Lords Forte , Taylor ( of the construction giant Taylor Woodrow ) , Weinstock , King , Edwin McAlpine , Matthews , Vinson and Sieff had also coincidentally been associated with companies which had given money to the Conservative cause . |
12 | And Horsley had given money to miners ' families during the 1984–5 strike . |
13 | Sagawa 's chairman , Kiyoshi Sagawa , said on Feb. 13 that the company had given money to 280 politicians for use in " hiring secretaries " . |
14 | In the event , although both Charitable Trust and Council had given assent to the first advert on the policy agreed , they baulked at the second wave of recruiting , and sought to change the basis of our agreement . |
15 | One of the questions raised ( see also above , p. 202 and below p. 650 ) was whether the plaintiffs had given consideration to the defendants by promising to perform an existing contract between the plaintiffs and a third party , Fu Chip , in the performance of which the defendants had an interest . |
16 | For example , Government- or TANU- employed journalists who had given thought to the matter told me that within the provisions of the Arusha Declaration and its main socialist objectives there was a wide range of issues concerning implementation to discuss . |
17 | Then in November last year , soon after Wendy had given birth to Bryony , her second daughter , everything began to go wrong . |
18 | It was not only that my grandmother had given birth to and brought up eight children , and with the help of a Mrs Pipkin ( whose wages were ten shillings a week and an egg ) run a large house for many years ; there was the shop , and shops in those days were by no means labour-saving . |
19 | The City winger had spent the day with his wife , who had given birth to a son . |
20 | Broadcast on November 23rd , 1982 , the Play for Today , ‘ John David ’ was meticulously balanced in its depiction of the true life dilemma facing the author of the play , Paula Milne , on discovering that she had given birth to a child with Down 's Syndrome . |
21 | Although he now realised what the phenomenon was that he had just witnessed , he found it impossible to digest the truth before his very eyes : Firelight had given birth to a baby . |
22 | Sally had a great capacity for love and a down-to-earth quality that Harriet presumed was a throw-back to her early upbringing and which had been honed and tested in the fire when she had given birth to — and kept — an illegitimate son in the days when illegitimacy was still a scandal . |
23 | Annie was broad-hipped and had given birth to overweight babies with no difficulty . |
24 | His celebrations were heightened by the news that his wife Carmen had given birth to their second son . |
25 | ( They would marry two years later , some months after she had given birth to twin boys . |
26 | At times she hated Freddie Nash with a ferocity that astonished her ; yet at others she longed to see him , to have his support , to feel that one day , perhaps after she had given birth to his baby , they would meet again and that she would experience , however transitory and unreliable — at least on his part — their mutual passion . |
27 | The second suspect was a resident of Consett , but on the night in question his wife had given birth to their first child , and the doctor and the midwife both vouched for the fact that the man had never left the house after he came in from work at half-past five until he went to work the next morning , an hour after he had heard his son first cry . |
28 | Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place . |
29 | And locals who said that McSweeney had given birth to twins bounced Farrah up and down , never suspecting they were holding the most wanted baby in Britain . |
30 | In fact the painter never did return to Koraloona — and Marama , his mistress , always thought he had abandoned her , and over the years became obsessed by bitterness at the betrayal , for she never knew that in 1903 the painter had died , after she had given birth to a daughter , a baby girl so white that her mother christened her Tiare , after the beautiful white flower of the South Seas . |