Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | But outside the house on this Sunday morning the usual gossip was forgotten , for Max Klein 's new motor-car was parked at the Rabbi 's front door and it seemed that half the community had gathered to wonder at it . |
| 2 | There was nothing revealing about Culley 's pause — the surprise was genuine , as if Sanchez had come straight to a point that Culley had intended to arrive at slowly . |
| 3 | Baldwin had intended to resign at once if Labour got a majority and this was still his instinct , but now he retired to Chequers where on 1 June came Davidson , Eyres Monsell , Austen Chamberlain and Hoare . |
| 4 | Supposing , just supposing , that Mackay and Parsons had arranged to meet at the cottage . |
| 5 | They had arranged to meet at the Metropole Hotel . |
| 6 | They had arranged to meet at a pub in Soho , not far from Helen 's flat . |
| 7 | Hope was so dug into his happy daydream that he failed to notice that Crump had stopped to gaze at something : he himself walked several yards on before the absence of his companion impinged on him . |
| 8 | The woman , from Heywood , near Rochdale , had stopped to look at directions in Farnworth near Manchester when the man struck at 5.40am on Saturday . |
| 9 | The Kurd , whom she had expected to flee at the first shaking of the ground , was staying with them . |
| 10 | He had expected to stay at the Dog and Gun , a tavern well known for its radical associations , where unstamped , illegal newspapers had always been laid out openly on the bar-counter for the perusal of anyone so inclined . |
| 11 | To disclose whether or not a warrant has been issued in a particular case could establish means whereby those involved in serious crimes or espionage or subversion could learn the extent to which their activities had come to notice or — perhaps more damaging — could in some cases confirm whether their activities had come to notice at all . |
| 12 | In the event , Paris was saved because Galliéni recognized that the moment had come to strike at the Germans when Kluck , wheeling northeast of the city , exposed his right flank to the Sixth Army . |
| 13 | She had come to look at the frescos of Sandweg , the frescos that interpreted the story of the Massacre of the Innocents — the slaughter of the male children of Bethlehem at the behest of Herod . |
| 14 | Mrs Heaton said : ‘ I certainly did not expect this we had come to look at the architecture . ’ |
| 15 | In any case the latter now had a substitute , very agreeable to Dinah ; the young man Nathan Holland who had come to read at Lamprey 's . |
| 16 | That was when Buckley arrived from Kettering , with Grimsby in Division Four , just seven players on the staff and a debt of £850,000 that someone had forgotten to mention at the job interview . |
| 17 | As he left the café he realised that he had forgotten to look at Elsie 's feet . |
| 18 | But he had used their bathroom and was back in bed again before he realized that he had forgotten to look at his daughter . |
| 19 | The Continental Palace orchestra had been playing the new popular melody " Tea for Two " as he came out onto the terrace , and he had been faintly surprised in the event that nobody had turned to stare at him . |
| 20 | Last year she had come to his school for the first time , and every eye had turned to gape at her long red hair and golden earrings as she swept into the assembly-hall wearing one of her special dresses . |
| 21 | He had turned to look at her , slipping off his coat as he did so and tossing it carelessly over the back of one of the armchairs . |
| 22 | His voice cut into her thoughts , and she realised that he had turned to look at her . |
| 23 | Suddenly , he had turned to look at her — simultaneously surprising her and proving her theory . |
| 24 | Guido had turned to glance at her with a look of mocking distaste . |
| 25 | At the same time as the Convent negotiations were taking place , the Governors were also advertising for a new headmaster , for Mr. Scott had decided to retire at the end of the Easter Term in 1979 . |
| 26 | ‘ Metzinger , Le Fauconnier , Delaunay , Léger and I , ’ writes Gleizes , ‘ had decided to show at the next Salon des Indépendants … but … we should show as a group , everyone was agreed . ’ |
| 27 | Jim had decided to stay at a hotel there till his car was mended . |
| 28 | At times the police car had had to go at over 100 mph . |
| 29 | He knew nothing , nothing , of what Sally-Anne had had to suffer at the hands of one of the monsters who controlled … what were his weaselling words ? … the mechanism . |
| 30 | Duroc had had to smile at that . |