Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have now finished coaling at Chapmans Well , but had to wait right to the very end for the best coal . |
| 2 | We had to go downstairs to the toilet , and in the winter the water used to freeze up . |
| 3 | He had to make frequent visits to hospital , for plaster to be changed , for X-rays and check-ups , and as unfortunately further cancer cells had been found in his spine , he had to go periodically to the Christie Hospital again . |
| 4 | News of this discovery had travelled quickly to the wives of the seven other fishermen , and Elisabeth saw that they were already grouped together on the shore . |
| 5 | They had added substantially to the availability of drugs in the streets of Britain . |
| 6 | His cool , shuttered gaze had dropped slowly to the open neck of her blouse , and , suddenly tingling with self-consciousness , she lifted a casual hand to her throat , fingering the silky collar , her skin warming under that overtly masculine scrutiny . |
| 7 | She had n't really expected to see him at the funeral , though she had looked forward to the possibility with unseemly excitement considering the solemnity of the occasion . |
| 8 | He had looked forward to the long drive to Wales as an opportunity to push out the boundaries of their friendship , to gauge whether it might flourish in more normal circumstances than those in which it had begun . |
| 9 | Balmain , a municipality named for a swashbuckling surgeon of convicts , had come again to the Grand Final and were heavily favoured . |
| 10 | The season of the hunt had come again to the people of the North Water . |
| 11 | Evans or Owens , the furniture man , who had come twice to the house , had been at least sixty then . |
| 12 | He had come close to the mark in his various schemes for the inner cities , but he had always taken great care not to overstep the boundary . |
| 13 | A Lurgan solicitor who could speak menacing words in a slow quiet voice , he had come close to the leadership of the Unionist Party , had held cabinet office and retained good links with the paramilitaries and the workers ' leaders who had planned and organized the 1974 strike . |
| 14 | The UK had objected strongly to the particularly sharp cuts originally proposed in its own allocations ; in the final agreement , a compromise had been reached in which the UK 's cod catches were reduced from 55,800 tonnes to 46,180 , while haddock quotas fell from 62,500 tonnes to 36,280 ( see p. 36493 for 1989 quotas ) . |
| 15 | The information they had was sketchy , to say the least , but they had responded immediately to the appeal of Retford 's station sergeant . |
| 16 | The island had responded particularly to the fervent missionary work of the itinerant Baptist preachers in the early years of the century . |
| 17 | The announcement came amidst reports in mid-December which suggested that the government had responded positively to the recommendations of an officially commissioned report which proposed sweeping changes to the " over-regulated and over-administered " banking system . |
| 18 | German universities were under the control of the state bureaucracy , which appointed the professors , but they had responded quickly to the specialization of the period with the creation of new chairs . |
| 19 | Official results put the turnout at 84 per cent , of which 90.32 per cent had voted affirmatively to the question " do you confirm the proclamation [ made on Aug. 24 — see p. 38373 ] of Ukraine 's independence ? " . |
| 20 | Conrad argued that his pledge had applied only to the Senate seat to which he had originally been elected and , therefore , he was free to contest his state 's other seat in the upper chamber when it became vacant due to Burdick 's death . |
| 21 | It became evident that the Tory success of the '50s had owed more to the ‘ conjuncture ’ of that decade and less to an irreversible shift in class/political alignment than had been thought earlier by political commentators such as Abrams . |
| 22 | Lastly , he had attended personally to the reprisal attack on Grant 's girlfriend and the recapture of the Wyatt girl . |
| 23 | Where Annie had got an average degree , taught English ‘ O ’ Level , married Mike and had Sally and Alex , settling in London , Sheila had sailed close to the fringes of student politics in the late 1960s , been arrested for demonstrations against the American presence in Vietnam in the war which ended in the early 1970s , squatted with the squatters , and done a variety of part-time nomadic jobs . |
| 24 | The mortuary van had moved closer to the rim of the hollow and the stretcher was being manoeuvred into place . |
| 25 | The soldiers had moved closer to the aeroplane , desperately trying to fight the flying demons . |
| 26 | Real life , he had read somewhere , had moved inland to the North Lanes , the ‘ alternative ’ Brighton around Gardner and Upper Gardner Streets , Kensington Street and Regent Street . |
| 27 | In contrast , the Australian marsupial fauna has remained isolated by sea and not until late Tertiary times , when Australia-New Guinea had moved close to the Indonesian islands , was even limited and chance colonisation possible of Asian placentals across small water barriers ( Whitmore , 1981 ) . |
| 28 | The willows had crowded closer to the shore , a swamp of them ; their branches formed a vault . |
| 29 | Similarly in Rex v. Bishop of Ely , 5 Durn. & E. 475 the applicant had been removed as a fellow of Jesus College , Cambridge , and had appealed unsuccessfully to the bishop as visitor . |
| 30 | Only after his accession did Richard seek to exploit Morgan 's Welsh connections , and by then Morgan 's private interests had shifted firmly to the south of England , where marriage had brought him land in Dorset and Hampshire . |