Example sentences of "had [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of a dive to 28 metres for 27 minutes total , the tissue loading bar graph had filled to within one segment/division of the caution zone . |
| 2 | Unless some merchants had withdrawn to the country , while continuing to manage their businesses there must have been significant investment in urban industry and commerce by the agricultural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 . |
| 3 | The attempt had failed , and the queen had withdrawn to sanctuary with her youngest son , the duke of York . |
| 4 | We hurtled at speed back to our ship , and Posi got us away about two nanoseconds after the Manport had withdrawn to the Fraxillian liner . |
| 5 | At Rass he heard that Ibrahim was evacuating all but the Hijaz and had withdrawn to Medina . |
| 6 | Only a few months ago , after this Lord Henry Percy had withdrawn to his other urgent command on the Scottish borders , Owen had run wild over most of North Wales , and made himself master of the counties of Carnarvon and Merioneth ; and while the woollier heads in King Henry 's council had seethed and talked bloody war , Hotspur had come swooping back to hold the balance so sturdily that he had been allowed , on the king 's warrant , to approach the Welsh prince , and attempt to bring him back to his allegiance , on promise of honourable terms . |
| 7 | On June 8 , 18 political organizations including the OLF had unsuccessfully petitioned the electoral commission for a postponement until irregularities and " discriminatory activities " had been resolved and all armed forces had withdrawn to their camps as agreed [ see pp. 38660 ; 38855 ] . |
| 8 | The attempt had failed , and the queen had withdrawn to sanctuary with her youngest son , the duke of York . |
| 9 | In 1899 he was a guest at the Wesleyan Methodist Conference and caused the normally sombre gathering to explode in laughter : the speaker before him had referred to himself as ‘ a humble Presbyterian ’ . |
| 10 | In politics Charles Dilke had referred to ‘ Greater Britain ’ and Joseph Chamberlain to Imperial Unity , while the quixotic Lord Rosebery , with his usual flair for vacuous terms , demanded ‘ Efficiency ’ in government , education and industry . |
| 11 | It had referred to Mr Donovan because he had been targeted as the first victim of the campaign in Britain . |
| 12 | It had referred to Mr Donovan because he had been targeted as the first victim of the campaign in Britain . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Vic Wilcox demanded , an hour or so later , when they were back in his office after what he had referred to as ‘ a quick whistle round the works ’ . |
| 15 | I then reached a small clearing , undoubtedly the spot the man had referred to . |
| 16 | a legendary monster said to have been born to a wealthy lady who had referred to a beggar 's child as a nasty pig . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In his homily , the Bishop had referred to George Villiers , the second of Buckingham who died in Kirkbymoorside in 1687 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Self Inflicted Wound , that was how they had referred to sunburn back in the old days of Counter Insurgency . |
| 21 | Among those instruments were what Van Gelder had referred to as the spy-glass . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Mr Blunkett had been reviewing some of the scientific evidence about the connection between deprivation and ill health or premature death , and immediately before your intervention had referred to children in social class 5 being six times as likely to be burnt or knocked down in accidents as those in social class 1 . |
| 24 | He had met Graham , or Green as he had referred to him throughout the interrogation , for the first time at the Windorah . |
| 25 | Held , allowing the appeal , the judge had referred to Cavendish ( 1961 ) 45 Cr.App.R. 374 in ruling that it was open to a jury to infer from all the circumstances that there must have been prior arrangement with the occupier for such a large quantity of burglary proceeds to arrive so quickly at the premises . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) It was necessary for the judge to deal with the point about the breach of the Code to the jury because TJ 's counsel 's speech had referred to it , although strictly the issue whether there had been a breach of the Code was a matter for the judge and not the jury . |
| 27 | He was thinking that the night Minch had referred to must have been the one when he had made a plea to the powers that rule the skies where eagles fly . |
| 28 | Dorothy had referred to him as ‘ that chap with the birthmark on his face . ’ |
| 29 | The term ‘ Cubism ’ had become common usage in the press after the opening of the Salon des Indépendants , although Apollinaire himself had referred to Metzinger , who had shown a painting directly influenced by Picasso , as ‘ the only adept of Cubism strictly speaking ’ . |
| 30 | This exhibition had received little attention in the press , though l'Autorité and Paris Journal had referred to it as an ‘ exhibition of Fauves and Cubists ’ no doubt through a confusion of terms , but also partly because this seemed the only way of describing the manifold tendencies represented , which were as divergent as at Brussels . |