Example sentences of "had [vb pp] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless some merchants had withdrawn to the country , while continuing to manage their businesses there must have been significant investment in urban industry and commerce by the agricultural sector to maintain the balance between town and country in West Sussex . |
| 2 | We hurtled at speed back to our ship , and Posi got us away about two nanoseconds after the Manport had withdrawn to the Fraxillian liner . |
| 3 | In wounded puzzlement I had a sudden flashback to the time immediately after Dunkirk , when Leslie had referred to the projected formation of a parachute corps , and to service in it as ‘ absolute certain death ’ in a ‘ suicide squad ’ . |
| 4 | The County Manager explained that , as a full meeting of the County Council was not due before the statutory decision-making period was up , he had referred to the Planning Working Committee who decided that the Manager should clear the decision with the County Council Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson . |
| 5 | poets had referred to the riches of the east for many years , but in the early seventeenth century ‘ My America , my new-found-land ’ seemed a more effective phrase to represent emotional force and involvement . |
| 6 | Allard had referred to the work of Kupka at the Salon des Indépendants as ‘ post-Cubist fantasies ’ , while at the Section d'Or Vauxcelles singled out as representative of the worst and most outrageous tendencies Duchamp 's Le Roi et la Reine entourés de nus vites . |
| 7 | We had referred to the rather disturbing politics of The Times , which under Geoffrey Dawson favoured appeasement of the dictators . |
| 8 | Tom had referred to the place as ‘ George 's smoking room . |
| 9 | A statement in early September 1989 by the National Assembly Speaker , Saadi Medhi Saleh , had referred to the regime 's commitment to a multiparty system , although decisions regarding the political forces which would be permitted to take part in it would be left to the " near future " . |
| 10 | The resolution as passed on Aug. 25 represented a significant modification of the US draft , which had referred to the use of " such minimum force as may be necessary " but was changed at Chinese insistence to read " measures commensurate to the specific circumstances " . |
| 11 | Instead he had referred to the " widespread disappointment and apprehension which now exists among the British with respect to the policies of the new United States administration " . |
| 12 | The Home Secretary , Kenneth Clarke had referred to the need to do something about the really persistent , nasty little juvenile offenders . |
| 13 | Luke had jumped to the wrong conclusion about Richard , and she did n't intend to enlighten him — yet . |
| 14 | And she , Merrill , had jumped to the obvious conclusion that Luke was trying to hide his past association with her cousin because he felt some guilt over the manner of her death . |
| 15 | He , Harper and Smith had jumped to the ground when the fire started . |
| 16 | Two fences later , as the runners swerved left over the Canal Turn , he had sped to the front and was inexorably increasing his advantage and turning the Grand National into a glorious exhibition round . |
| 17 | It may even be that it was done to make possible the appointment of this particular scholar , a native of Bosnasarayi who had taught to the level . |
| 18 | Once an estate had devolved to the heir , a legatee per vindicationem was immediately able to vindicate the object from the heir , for the legatee was himself owner . |
| 19 | He had left her and gone to live with an upper-class woman , had soared to the opposite end of the scale from Josie , whose attraction for him had been that of a splenetic victim from the lower depths of the goyim : but Josie had refused a divorce and the ordeal had dragged on . |
| 20 | Her third single — SAW 's version of her old favourite , Little Eva 's ‘ The Loco-Motion ’ , — had soared to the number two slot maintaining her record of getting her releases in the top two . |
| 21 | ln that time , the sixty men had adjusted to the soldiers ' normal routine of work at night and lie-up during the day . |
| 22 | Either that , or my eyes had adjusted to the gloom . |
| 23 | He shaded his eyes and blinked for a few seconds until he had adjusted to the change . |
| 24 | But whereas Packford had adjusted to the age of new technology and the design possibilities it offered , Sutton remained wedded , at heart , to the old hot-metal approach . |
| 25 | Now that his eyes had adjusted to the light , Patrick could just about make out the vague shape of the young woman before him , her face a dim grey against the paler shape of her nightdress . |
| 26 | There , when our eyes had adjusted to the gloom , we found the world of the river that we had just left . |
| 27 | This continued each day for three months , by which time the cycles of the recipients had adjusted to the rhythm of the donor . |
| 28 | It was only when his eyes had adjusted to the brightness that Dexter could assess Stephen Blufton properly . |
| 29 | Perhaps they had adjusted to the sanitised neutralism of a Stockholm commune , but it seemed an odd life for men who had chosen to become soldiers . |
| 30 | By now , my sight had adjusted to the dark . |