Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [to-vb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 400 loyalists had gathered to explain their grievances about police action in the town and to call Ken Maginnis , the Fermanagh and South Tyrone MP who was the OUP law and order spokesman , to task for his description of the rioting as ‘ orchestrated thuggery ’ . |
| 2 | On the embankment up which rescuers had carried survivors , a small group had gathered to pay their respects . |
| 3 | This was Luke — and , if he had intended to break their date , it was highly unlikely that he would have sent her flowers to confirm it only that morning … |
| 4 | More serious was the danger to a community when enclosure by a lord took in parts of the common land , on which the villagers had relied to graze their own stock . |
| 5 | They had expected to record their fourth victory over home side this season , but on a poor service , the game was a dour affair , as neither side dominated the proceedings . |
| 6 | I thought again of the awe in which the Indians had come to hold their conquerors . |
| 7 | Along a short passage , the visitor came to the locked theatre door ( the same door whose creaking had sometimes disturbed Coleman in his introductory lectures , when old students who had come to pay their respects , arrived after he had begun ) . |
| 8 | The Krays , Richardsons , and many more villains had come to pay their last respects . |
| 9 | They had come to relish their small but growing role as political and social observers , invoking the spirit of ‘ May Fourth ’ . |
| 10 | Outside in the street , still waiting in the cold wind were the friends , neighbours and complete strangers who had come to show their support for the families . |
| 11 | This was a group of Germans who , like Prince Albert , had come to seek their fortune , after getting an excellent education in their homeland . |
| 12 | Cynical almost to a man , they expected the worst , and had come to write their stories of poor abused children , evil parents , and the things that ‘ incomers ’ get up to in remote islands . |
| 13 | The rugged topography of the region , the sheer scale of the distances involved , and the fact that each community by-and-large had come to regard their problems as being unique to themselves , had served to significantly play-down the magnitude of the problem of toxic waste dumping . |
| 14 | ‘ I was hungry after all , ’ she admitted , finishing the main course with relish and taking another sip of the excellent French burgundy Roman had picked to complement their food . |
| 15 | The companies had sought to merge their fleets on the currently lucrative Dover , Folkestone and Ramsgate routes to France which would have fixed prices at one level and allowed them to operate a single timetable . |
| 16 | The shapechangers had sought to control their lives with their willpower , able to transform their bodies into any form , but they were still prisoners of this mortal , finite universe . |
| 17 | Since the report was published , he said , the authority had sought to alter their working methods . |
| 18 | But if the French had threatened to withdraw their troops it was , said Bao Dai , pure blackmail ; and the Americans had fallen for it . |
| 19 | The Anderston Unemployed Committee had decided to use their meeting to mount a boycott of the Argyle Picture House . |
| 20 | They had entered into complex calculations , weighing up the potential loss of both short- and long-term benefits against the extra cash in their pay packets and had decided to maximise their already low pay at the time they most needed it . |
| 21 | The next day Signor Merli came to the bank , ostensibly on business , and whispered to me that some of the prisoners had decided to leave their hiding places and strike out across the Via Emilia towards the high Apennines . |
| 22 | One of the things that helped us over this difficult period was the fact that earlier that year the cutter crews had decided to form their very own association . |
| 23 | This was not because of the enemy fire , which was less frequent now than it had ever been , for evidently the sepoys had decided to bide their time until the end of the rains . |
| 24 | In Roberts v. Hopwood Poplar Council had decided to pay their low grade workers £4 per week . |
| 25 | The Liberals had decided to end their pact and so the government had no firm majority in the House on which to rely . |
| 26 | The wife 's son said his mother and stepfather had decided to end their eight-year marriage after the St Valentine 's Day row . |
| 27 | Because Robbie was working , Fen had offered to meet their train and take them up to the manor house . |
| 28 | For instance , the peasants of the Maramureş to whom Ceauşescu had appealed to preserve their ancient ways had only been able to do so until then because their poor hill-side farms had not yet been collectivized . |
| 29 | Over the centuries officers had had to nurse their wooden ships for structural reasons and this had provided a certain measure of protection against excessive sail-carrying . |
| 30 | Some who had driven over the Berwyns insisted that they had had to put their headlights on , and this in the middle of a July day . |