Example sentences of "had [vb pp] to [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The task of organizing her grandmother 's funeral had fallen to her a couple of years before and , although the present situation was bound to be more complicated , she had a fair idea of the steps Veronica would need to take . |
| 2 | Mafouz , a tiny , pale , Egyptian boy , had said to him a week or so ago , ‘ Sir — I am not allowed television . |
| 3 | The word stirred her , and she recalled what her mother had said to her the previous day : that Cork had been her home all her life , with no suffering and no want — a safe and secure home . |
| 4 | He had written to me every week when he could , and I was longing to see him again . |
| 5 | Ronnie had written to me a few months before , saying that she had hesitated to get in touch but wanted me to know how concerned she was about John . |
| 6 | £pound1 , 000 had seemed to him a pretty sum on which to " have a union of his own , manipulated by himself , despite the fact that in refusing to hand over the money to Head Office , he was bringing great hardship to the men in other ports still on strike , and to their families . |
| 7 | It had seemed to him a natural extension of his duties , and somehow consistent with Islamic notions of hospitality , to assume responsibility for seeing that Owen was properly supplied with coffee . |
| 8 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
| 9 | After the fight with the beggars he had left the sack with Allen and Marian because it had seemed to him an ingenious way of saving himself the trouble of carrying it to Simon 's hut and back again while at the same time it was a guarantee that the children would remain until he returned . |
| 10 | The future , which once had seemed to her a long , grassy vista into distant sunlight , was now a black impenetrable vapour , blowing towards her menacingly , like some poisonous gas , and threatening to envelop her . |
| 11 | Only a prisoner and the nurse had spoken to me the night before I cut myself . |
| 12 | She said she had spoken to her the previous day and she had seemed normal . |
| 13 | Remembering what had happened to me the last time I entered this unhappy house , remembering too that I was an escaped jailbird , whom most of the Frankenstein menage would not hesitate to give back into custody , I decided that the wisest course was to keep the place under observation and wait until I could be sure to speak to Victor . |
| 14 | If because risk had passed to him the buyer has to bear some loss , it follows that he is not excused from carrying out the contract . |
| 15 | The chief executive of Newcrest Mining , the joint-venture partner which had planned to mine the site , denounced Hawke 's decision as a dangerous precedent . |
| 16 | By mid-1939 , in addition to finding places to live for children who arrived without guarantors , the committees had delegated to them the twice-yearly inspection of homes , arrangements for schooling and vocational training , and the task of sorting out any difficulties over religious education . |
| 17 | In 1265 the papacy had reserved to itself the right to provide candidates to a wide variety of livings in the gift of ecclesiastical patrons and to bishoprics vacated at Rome . |
| 18 | Surkov had quoted to her a poem by Zbigniew Herbert , and she 'd said this helped her to understand Poland more than anything else . |
| 19 | Essentially , all the invention consisted of was an overhead vacuum cleaner which moved back and forth between the textile machines and which had attached to it a long vertical tube , reaching almost to the floor . |
| 20 | He had mentioned to them the possibility of a deal and even the likelihood of profit , and proposed that one of the laundress 's sons come with a ladder and pick the tree clean this autumn , before the mulberries matured to that soft ripeness that threatened any laundry hanging near . |
| 21 | To turn the knife in the wound , he had mentioned to her the name of a local pub that had refused her singing act . |
| 22 | He had outlined to him a ‘ Project for a Scientific Psychology ’ in 1895 , and it was at about this time that Freud began to become dissatisfied with Breuer 's approach . |
| 23 | The spirit , wearing wolf skins and an eagle 's mask , had read to him a kind of autobiographical fragment . |