Example sentences of "had [vb pp] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had referred to all the relevant authorities and had properly understood the principles and so could not be said to have erred in law . |
| 2 | It was about three weeks later when I happened to notice that the pupil of this eye had dilated to such an extent that it was now noticeable to everyone . |
| 3 | Foreign currency reserves had plunged to some US$2,300 million in early March , barely enough to cover three weeks ' imports . |
| 4 | When the psychiatrist Jack Dominian wrote his influential book on marital breakdown in 1968 , that figure had soared to some 30,000 divorces every year . |
| 5 | The technique had developed to such an extent by the New Temple Period , beginning in 1700 BC , that vases were being made out of obsidian and rock crystal : for example , the beautiful crystal rhyton from Zakro . |
| 6 | Potatoes had flown to all four comers of the kitchen . |
| 7 | It was as though all of her nerve-ends had flown to these spots . |
| 8 | It being the 30th October , His Majesty 's birthday , General Wade had given to each detachment an ox-feast and liquor ; six oxen were roasted whole , one at the head of each party . |
| 9 | It also allows you to start a newness within your mind which was hitherto filled with the pain of loss and the pain of the control you had given to another to live your life . |
| 10 | The apostles , the folk who had known Jesus in the old days in Galilee , Stephen , Paul ; all are ‘ witnesses of these things ; and so is the Holy Spirit whom God had given to those who obey him ’ ( Acts 5:32 ) . |
| 11 | There was no indication whether individuals within the subgroups had travelled to either their country of origin , if appropriate , or — if born in one geographical location — had travelled to other areas where the incidence of environmental toxoplasma exposed them to increased risk of this infection . |
| 12 | At 1st April 1991 , the date of the latest actuarial valuation , the market value of the main UK scheme 's assets was £277.4 million , the actuarial value of which represented 141% of the liability for benefits that had accrued to that date making full allowance for future salary and pension increases and after taking into account benefit changes introduced as of 1st April 1991 . |
| 13 | By the end of April 1935 Danzig 's currency reserves stood at less than half of their 1933 figure ; by June the reserve had dropped to less than one-eighth of that figure . |
| 14 | This had dropped to fewer than 200 animals in 1979 in spite of a conservation programme since 1976 , largely because of its relative similarity to the Blonde which led to a high degree of crossing . |
| 15 | Petur Beron on Dec. 3 announced his intention to resign as chair of the UDF co-ordinating council ( he had succeeded to that post after Zhelev had resigned it in August upon being elected President ) . |
| 16 | Neither Catherine the Great 's Commission on Popular Schools of 1782 nor the education statutes of 1804 and 1828 nor the foundation of elementary schools by the Ministry of State Properties and the Holy Synod had succeeded to any great extent in promoting the cause of peasant literacy . |
| 17 | ‘ The thought that he had come to that state of despair would break my heart . ’ |
| 18 | It is necessary I had come to that view for me , at that time it was necessary for me to contact one of the duty Chief Officers and on this occasion it was the Assistant Chief Constable Mr , so I made contact with him . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , the fact that the matter had come to such a head did have a sobering effect on them both . |
| 20 | In " Inside the Whale " George Orwell described how the post-war group of writers , Pound , Joyce , Eliot and Lewis ( who have since been described as the " modernists " ) were united by their pessimism : unlike men such as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells , they had seen through the ideals and systems of the late nineteenth century which had come to such a smash in the early decades of the twentieth . |
| 21 | It was no wonder the good Sisters had come to such a place to work . |
| 22 | Harry had come to this place to meet someone . |
| 23 | He had come to this . |
| 24 | He had come to this , with a wife and three kids to support . |
| 25 | Now it had come to this , the repomen at the door for the second time . |
| 26 | But Pascoe had come to this broken-down hotel in these bleak streets already guessing that Charlie probably was n't Zeno . |
| 27 | She had come to this , to a limp white heap who had forgotten the names of her nearest and dearest . |
| 28 | What had she got to lose , she seemed to be saying , now that it had come to this ? |
| 29 | Ah this was really just Yona and and me you know I mean Yona obviously felt very strongly about her father standing in the rain on the picket line worked hard all his life an it had come to this really being sacked er they were just newly sacked then . |
| 30 | So , they had come to this . |