Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone . |
| 2 | However , not merely was there a conflict of medical evidence , but even Dr. D. , upon whose opinion Thorpe J. eventually based his decision , described W. as having ‘ a mild case of anorexia nervosa ’ and that although he ( Dr. D. ) had eventually come round to the view that W. should be treated at the specialist London unit , the decision was quite finely balanced . |
| 3 | On her first evening at Thomas 's house , after the shopping spree , she had shyly come down to dinner in one of her new dresses . |
| 4 | Paige glanced up from the rock she had wearily sunk on to . |
| 5 | She had made a complete fool of herself and had successfully lived down to every low opinion that Piers harboured about her . |
| 6 | He could see in a three hundred and sixty degree sphere via the pod sensor modules , just as he could feel the ambient temperature , and even smell the lubricant that someone had carelessly leaked on to the floor . |
| 7 | At the same time the press had been tipped off that the Health Minister was leaving the country on holiday from Heathrow and half a dozen photographers had literally chased on to the runway to photograph him . |
| 8 | How clearly it had all come back to her — even the piping treble of her own childish voice . |
| 9 | In the first week of the forty-day share sale period , the unions only invested £871,000 , and two weeks before the closing date the total had only crept up to £927,500 . |
| 10 | Yet the substance had only gone on to the Jockey Club 's list of prohibited substances a mere ten months before Aliysa failed her dope test . |
| 11 | ‘ We knew the water was dangerous and had only gone in to our knees . |
| 12 | Usually , what with shooting and swimming with the others and riding up at Biddy 's , he had only got back to the garden shed in time to flake out until morning . |
| 13 | He said the buy-out had been a possibility for some time , but the two sides had only got down to serious discussions in the past few months . |
| 14 | He certainly spoke his mind : ‘ Among you Girls , one is a star but from the dancing I 've seen , the rest of you had better get back to your washtubs . ‘ |
| 15 | The you walk down one street , and you say , ‘ Well I had better get back to my bearings , or I shall lose myself and you go back to the town hall . |
| 16 | ‘ You had better come up to Lady Merchiston , ’ Theda said , leading the way to the stairs . |
| 17 | However , the Cuban leader had eagerly latched on to the dramatic statements made by Khrushchev in June-July 1960 . |
| 18 | They spent the rest of the afternoon in animated discussion — so animated that Folly had gently to point out to her employee that it was time to lock up . |
| 19 | Army Group E had included seven army corps , one of which , the 15 SS Cossack Cavalry Corps , had already broken through to Austria and surrendered to the British . |
| 20 | ‘ My family were Huguenots , my lady , and therefore unwanted in la belle France , ’ D'Alembord 's contemptuous scorn for France made the Countess bridle , but he had already turned back to Lucille . |
| 21 | But Americans had already moved on to another massive and distinctively North American style , the station as office block . |
| 22 | But the gang had already moved on to another pub just a mile or so down the road . |
| 23 | When he rang Joanne to check Nigel 's movements in the week before Steen 's death , a strange female voice answered and informed him that Miss Menzies had already gone up to Scotland for her Christmas holidays . |
| 24 | Normally he had already gone out to the horses but now she had to face him and she was feeling quite unsure of herself . |
| 25 | Fortunately the couple had had a telephone number for the party Lori had left with , and a telephone call this morning had vouchsafed the unwelcome information that Lori had already flown on to Medellín . |
| 26 | Anne had already trimmed down to a reasonable weight with the help of Weight Watchers , and she pleaded for new ideas to strengthen her resolve . |
| 27 | Although Stan was older and previously dominant , by virtue of being the only dog , he had not turned out to be the natural leader of he pair . |
| 28 | The speech of 26 April 1942 , held against the theatrical back-cloth of the summoning of the Reichstag , had not lived up to expectations . |
| 29 | Reality had not lived up to expectations . |
| 30 | PESC , PAR and the CPRS had not lived up to initial expectations , and changes in the departmental pattern had failed to produce either significant administrative gains or organizational stability . |