Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] had [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A strange fierce joy had filled him after that , and he had n't really heard anything Ashton or Smith had said to him . |
| 2 | Sweetheart nor Buddie had spoken to him since he was called down from his room almost an hour ago . |
| 3 | For example , in 1936–37 the costs of providing courses in rural Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire had amounted to £330 in excess of grant earned under the Board of Education Regulations . |
| 4 | If Monet and Cezanne had to retreat to the edge of abstraction – – why should it not be possible to do the reverse , to develop a relationship with nature from working within abstraction itself ? ’ |
| 5 | Fabien was away , and Gaston had gone to Bordeaux on business , so there was no one to raise the alarm . ’ |
| 6 | By then Florey and Heatley had gone to America to seek aid from a richer country not yet involved in war . |
| 7 | Thank God Grandma and our Kate had gone out to Huyton in the lorries and Peggy had gone to their Meg 's shelter . |
| 8 | D. S. MacColl , keeper of the Wallace Collection , and Sir Edmund Gosse [ qq.v. ] , angered at the harm Douglas and Crosland had caused to Ross 's reputation , organized a testimonial for him . |
| 9 | Crestfallen , he and Ian had driven to Ian 's house , but Mrs MacDonald had gone to an art exhibition and Mr MacDonald to a service club meeting . |
| 10 | Margaret and Geraldine had gone to Canada as domestics in the earl y thirties and married Canadian husbands , and would n't come back to Liverpool , they wrote , for a big clock . |
| 11 | Yet patients in Italy , France and Germany had switched to newer ACE inhibitors with fewer side effects and greater benefit to patients with linked problems like diabetes and heart disease , asthma , gout and high blood-fat levels , said Dr Griffin . |
| 12 | By the time Oldfield and his bride-to-be at last arrived , Joan and Richard had fallen to speculating which of the marriages would end in divorce . |
| 13 | Guido was being mercifully discreet about what Silvia and Jeff had done to him , when she had thought it would be more his style to rant and rave in anger . |
| 14 | In their different ways both Tom and Emilia had alluded to the same experience ; and before that experience she was utterly virgin . |
| 15 | The later play 's music-hall element seems strongest when closest to the more daring Sweeney Agonistes , bringing to this distinctly urban form some of the ironic bite which Brecht and Weill had brought to Berlin stages in 1929 . |
| 16 | ‘ Your mother has gone off on a little holiday , ’ he had announced vaguely and Katherine had returned to New York and to school . |
| 17 | By then Nkrumah and Danquah had returned to Saltpond . |
| 18 | Dertliev 's withdrawal in Zhelev 's favour indicated that the BSP and UDF had come to an agreement ( reportedly Dertliev had been unacceptable to the BSP as President ) , as did the Assembly 's election by acclamation on Aug. 1 of the BSP 's Atanas Semerdzhiev as Vice-President . |
| 19 | For it had been when Ryan had died , three years ago now , that the situation between her and Jake had come to a head . |
| 20 | The Union of the Crowns did not mean that England and Scotland had ceased to be separate countries . |
| 21 | The RSFSR , Ukraine and Kazakhstan had objected to allowing the federal government to impose taxes , demanding that the union budget should be financed from taxes collected by individual republics . |
| 22 | Some of his fans became involved in fighting and Bulloch had to return to the ring to appeal to them to stop . |
| 23 | In April he and Constanze had moved to a smaller , less fashionable apartment on the Landstrasse , and Constanze was once again pregnant . |
| 24 | The measure was explained by the Finance Minister , Laszlo Bekesi , as an attempt to tackle Hungary 's current account surplus in roubles which between January and July had grown to R865,100,000 from R233,800.000 in 1988 [ see p. 37740 ] . |
| 25 | However , the incident involving Mely and Cullen had come to the attention of the stewards with the result that both were penalised . |
| 26 | It was unfair , because last time he had been in the thick of the fighting when the message came , and Tuathal had fought to be beside him . |
| 27 | Changes were on the way ; but not because the British government or the Governor initiated them , Dorman-Smith and Knight had managed to stone-wall for almost a year ; largely because Bogyoke was occupied in building up his power base . |
| 28 | Mrs Leyshon told the court how she and Stokle had gone to a house in Staunton to meet Evans and Stroud . |
| 29 | Limping awkwardly to the window , he watched Tom fight his way through the snow in the farmyard , and he thought of how close he and Carrie had come to being caught in bed together . |
| 30 | And after he 'd gone , and Isobel had returned to the newsroom to file all the dead stories and check the agency printers for the next hour 's updates ready to hand over to Jim , the late-shift newsreader , it briefly crossed her mind that maybe , just maybe , a rising star of journalism with her eye on the national media might have asked a couple of more searching questions . |