Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually Beth accompanied her to town , but , seeing as the Hansom would be going right by the flower-shop , she had arranged for Cissie to be dropped off there . |
| 2 | The voice had veered from exasperation to incredulity . |
| 3 | Because everything took a long time to complete , I started to savour occupations which in the past I had regarded as chores to be endured . |
| 4 | No one had heard of access to ink print information in those days and as I was the only blind student there I did n't feel I had any support to ask for it to be made available . |
| 5 | She had travelled to Maidenhead to his old address and the new occupants of his small mansion had no idea where he had gone . |
| 6 | I discussed my plans with Colonel Sandford ; he had travelled across Abyssinia to the Sudan in 1907 and served under my father in the Legation in 1913 , returning to Abyssinia with Christine , his wife , after the First World War in which he had fought with distinction . |
| 7 | After an eventful journey to Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides , off the north-west coast of Scotland , he was joined by his younger brother , aged around 23 , James Keith , who had travelled through France to Paris like a military pied Piper , collecting Jacobites as he went , before embarking on a little 25-ton ship at Le Havre to sail round the west coast of Ireland . |
| 8 | They had travelled by train to Peking , via Russia and Outer Mongolia ! |
| 9 | Fiona Reekie , 13 , and her mother Eileen had travelled from Fife to London to see Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat . |
| 10 | The two women had travelled from Durban to the holiday resort at Sordwana near South Africa 's border with Mozambique on Friday . |
| 11 | In a few minutes , six pages of Russian text had travelled from Riga to Moscow . |
| 12 | Ronald Taylor , who had travelled from Winsford to his daughter 's house at Middlewich Road , Rudheath , said he was affected by the smell . |
| 13 | Dana had travelled from Berlin to Salamanca on an old motor bike that was to play a large part in our lives both in Spain and in England . |
| 14 | She had travelled from Rosyth to Glasgow , hardly any distance at all , yet still she had missed her connection . |
| 15 | Oil prices had fallen from $29 to below $20 a barrel ( the sharpest one-day fall on record ) on Jan. 17 , in response to the initial assessment that allied air raids on Iraq were being so successful as to promise rapid military victory . |
| 16 | Where at that date , any payment was accruing due , ie where payment in arrears was stipulated , the creditor may prove for the amount which would have fallen due if the debt had accrued from day to day ( r 6.112(2) ) . |
| 17 | Between these , gold-dark , dark-gold and violent pink , lay Lady Rose Martindale , solid but not fat or for in less , indeed very woman-shaped , in pink-and-brown striped silk bathing suit , with gold hair spattered softly over the brown flesh of her shoulders and whitish sand speckled on the gleam of her thighs where she had rolled from side to side . |
| 18 | However , although the boundary existed , its position had varied from case to case . |
| 19 | But by January the pound had dropped in value to 1.05 . |
| 20 | Thomas Williamson , a senior officer with the Metropolitan Police in London , had come to Cleveland to be interviewed for a top job in the county 's force . |
| 21 | We had come to Rangkul to film bar-headed geese for the forthcoming BBC2 series Realms of the Russian Bear . |
| 22 | The ministry said yesterday that it was first warned by the Dutch on November 1 that 550 tonnes of Indian rice bran contaminated with lead sulphate had come via Rotterdam to Teignmouth in Devon . |
| 23 | At first their mother 's sister had come from time to time but she and Moran had quarrelled . |
| 24 | Jess , who had come in response to the message brought by Midnight from Miss Jarman , stood in the doorway appalled . |
| 25 | If it is withdrawn , then the advertiser is in breach of contract with any bidder who had come in response to the advertisement . |
| 26 | European stock markets were stronger , with market operators relieved that Wall Street did not repeat Tuesday 's sharp 83-point drop , which had come in reaction to early indications of what Mr Clinton had in mind . |
| 27 | By the time the girl who had rung in response to his advertisement had arrived on the scene , the horse was already bridled and saddled . |
| 28 | When she had rung in response to the advertisement card on the board in the Tadley Post Office , she had n't thought of where the classes might be . |
| 29 | Moreover , since , under section 6(4) all those who had applied for admission to the school had expressed a statutory preference for that school , the rejection of any one of those applicants involved a failure to give effect to the preference of one or more parents . |
| 30 | By the end of May around 15,000 former BCCI depositors had applied for compensation to the UK 's Deposit Protection Board . |