Example sentences of "and had [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had done well that day — almost performed miracles — having located Mrs McLaren 's Scottish relations ; persuaded a most excellent and locally well-known lady to come at short notice and be in the house to stay with her ; and had seen to it that the house itself was tidied , and cleaned ready , and supplied with food . |
| 2 | The funeral was over ; Paul need not trouble to come down , everything had been arranged ; Colonel Carteret , who lodged with her , had been most kind , and had seen to everything . |
| 3 | Unless , of course , they had not wanted him to know , and had seen to it that he had no address for them . |
| 4 | The hulking nephew of Kalv Arnason had been only a youth when King Olaf had killed his uncle Ølve at the spring feast at Sparbu and had given to Kalv his uncle 's rich widow in gratitude . |
| 5 | I had been asked for a full text of the sermon , to be printed in the society minutes and had gone to some trouble to prepare for the occasion . |
| 6 | Word had reached Carewscourt that several of the big landowning families in the county had sold out and had gone to England . |
| 7 | The court heard that her husband had become suspicious early last year and had gone to the National Westminster bank asking them not to release any further cheque books . |
| 8 | I at once thought that the poor fellow had had a pretty rough day and had gone to sleep as he had n't made a sound . |
| 9 | He , too , had combed his long hair for the outing and had gone to the lengths of scrubbing the blue paint from his fingers . |
| 10 | They both sent their love to you , ’ he added , remembering the day when he thought that Julia was going to die and had gone to them in despair . |
| 11 | I had heard my mother and Robert come in and had gone to sleep much later . |
| 12 | It emerged that Harbury had rung Tavett 's home and been told by his wife that he was unwell and had gone to the doctor 's surgery . |
| 13 | Despite having one wing afire and disintegrating , he managed to get his crew away but only after his flight engineer , FS Colgan , found a parachute and attached it , and had gone to the aid of the wounded tail gunner . |
| 14 | He 'd been in the country 2 years before being arrested and had gone to Goa to spend Christmas with friends . |
| 15 | It had fallen 50 metres by 10 500 years ago , and had risen to 10 m above OD 4000 years later , when much of the well-known Carse clay was deposited . |
| 16 | Henry Ford 's family had been born just outside Cork city and had emigrated to America , he himself had become a multi-millionaire and now , as a national benefactor , was perpetuating his name in his ancestral home town . |
| 17 | The Central Region also lacked those national and religious minorities whose commonly held views in some borderlands had bridged the psychological gap between town and country and had led to the formation of political parties after 1905 . |
| 18 | Such a shift was viewed with real apprehension and had led to a movement by Prussia to rally to Austria 's support , in spite of their internal differences about the running of Germany . |
| 19 | One must hope for that ; the present position was Mrs Gracie 's fault , and had led to nothing but the discovery of passion . |
| 20 | Fighting between the two rival Shia militias , the Syrian-backed Amal and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah , raged throughout West Beirut and the western Bekaa valley during December 1989 and had led to over 100 deaths by early January 1990 [ see p. 37137 ] . |
| 21 | Drought , which had seriously affected the country between 1987 and 1989 and had led to severe job losses , remained a problem , the resulting need to increase food imports contributing to a rising trade deficit ( which for the period January to July 1990 totalled US$1,125 million , an increase of 35 per cent on the corresponding period in 1989 ) and expected to offset any gains from higher prices for oil exports . |
| 22 | Its allegations were the latest in a series of accusations of collaboration with the secret police which had surfaced since the revolution and had led to a number of resignations and arrests of politicians and officials [ see pp. 37382 ; 37464 ; 37542 ; 38018 ] . |
| 23 | A major road and pipeline already crossed the region and had led to oil spills and the release of contaminated water containing hydrocarbons , heavy metals and bactericides and other chemicals into the soil and water . |
| 24 | The failure to conclude the Uruguay Round had injected uncertainty into the international trade system , causing trade disputes to resurface , and had led to the " impression that there is one law for the most powerful members of GATT and quite another for all the rest " . |
| 25 | But Colonel Richardson came between Anna and the tandoori curry powder ; personable , kindly , inflexible Colonel Richardson , who had sat in her insufficiently tidy sitting-room in his beautiful old tweed jacket , and had said to her that she was harming her husband , the community and the Church . |
| 26 | It had happened at the rampart by Dr Dunstaple 's house where Cutter had just shot a sepoy the moment before and seen him fall ; at the same instant he had caught sight of another sepoy levelling his musket and had said to the Sikh beside him : " See that man aiming at me , take him down . " |
| 27 | If she had thought of it , she would have looked before : she had registered the reporter and photographer going up to the flat above , and had said to herself that they did n't , very obviously , have the class of the young men from the London Sundays . |
| 28 | The evening tide had been a modest eighteen footer and had ebbed to low water an hour ago . |
| 29 | Many farmers had given up working the land because of low rates of return and had turned to producing more lucrative goods . |
| 30 | Some teachers were aware of this lack and had turned to curriculum publications such as The School Curriculum ( DES , 1981 ) for guidance . |