Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] [adv] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who , she wondered , had hated him enough to break his neck ? |
| 2 | In the two years they had been operating , Stephen had taught her never to lose her temper with the guests , however unreasonable , but to try to win them over . |
| 3 | That fact had aroused her enough to make her display her feminine assets to best advantage . |
| 4 | And then she came bounding back and could n't stop herself , went straight into Doreen , knocked Doreen off her legs completely , and she was just sprawled out on all fours , it was just hilarious , we , in fact we did an action replay on that because you had to see it again to believe it . |
| 5 | I think the Rainbow people had rung everyone else to warn them . |
| 6 | Before this , I had got someone else to give my lectures for me , because most people could not understand my voice . |
| 7 | trying to make it balance all afternoon so I had to start it yesterday to make it balance . |
| 8 | ‘ You would then be able to assure yourself that all your worst forebodings were correct , that I had brought you here to cheat you out of your share in some shady manner . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ If the FA had asked me personally to select our opponents I 'd have gone for Orient , ’ said Still . |
| 10 | Because I I mean I because she had asked me originally to keep it but I keep mine all separate until you asked me for it . |
| 11 | But little Harry had wept — for his beloved sister 's absence and Lily had taken him secretly to visit her . |
| 12 | While the DUC itself had amassed information and expertise by now to undertake this study itself , it realized that the report would have to be produced from outside the community if it was to have legitimacy or to be seen in any way as neutral : ‘ We in the Committee felt that we knew enough to write the report ourselves but we also felt that it would n't be acceptable to the County Council so we had to get somebody else to do it ’ . |
| 13 | Binchy 's father , a lawyer , had warned her never to put anyone real into her fiction , and she has stuck to his advice with only minor deviations : Benny in Circle of Friends was in part a self-portrait — a safe enough liberty ; and a mean friend of her mother found her way , disguised , into The Lilac Bus . |
| 14 | He had warned her never to put anything on it . |
| 15 | Something had scared him enough to make him go running across rooftops in the early hours of the morning . |