Example sentences of "had [vb pp] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless some merchants had withdrawn to the country , while continuing to manage their businesses there must have been significant investment in urban industry and commerce by the agricultural sector to maintain the balance between town and country in West Sussex . |
| 2 | We hurtled at speed back to our ship , and Posi got us away about two nanoseconds after the Manport had withdrawn to the Fraxillian liner . |
| 3 | a legendary monster said to have been born to a wealthy lady who had referred to a beggar 's child as a nasty pig . |
| 4 | In wounded puzzlement I had a sudden flashback to the time immediately after Dunkirk , when Leslie had referred to the projected formation of a parachute corps , and to service in it as ‘ absolute certain death ’ in a ‘ suicide squad ’ . |
| 5 | The County Manager explained that , as a full meeting of the County Council was not due before the statutory decision-making period was up , he had referred to the Planning Working Committee who decided that the Manager should clear the decision with the County Council Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson . |
| 6 | poets had referred to the riches of the east for many years , but in the early seventeenth century ‘ My America , my new-found-land ’ seemed a more effective phrase to represent emotional force and involvement . |
| 7 | Allard had referred to the work of Kupka at the Salon des Indépendants as ‘ post-Cubist fantasies ’ , while at the Section d'Or Vauxcelles singled out as representative of the worst and most outrageous tendencies Duchamp 's Le Roi et la Reine entourés de nus vites . |
| 8 | We had referred to the rather disturbing politics of The Times , which under Geoffrey Dawson favoured appeasement of the dictators . |
| 9 | Tom had referred to the place as ‘ George 's smoking room . |
| 10 | A statement in early September 1989 by the National Assembly Speaker , Saadi Medhi Saleh , had referred to the regime 's commitment to a multiparty system , although decisions regarding the political forces which would be permitted to take part in it would be left to the " near future " . |
| 11 | The resolution as passed on Aug. 25 represented a significant modification of the US draft , which had referred to the use of " such minimum force as may be necessary " but was changed at Chinese insistence to read " measures commensurate to the specific circumstances " . |
| 12 | Instead he had referred to the " widespread disappointment and apprehension which now exists among the British with respect to the policies of the new United States administration " . |
| 13 | The Home Secretary , Kenneth Clarke had referred to the need to do something about the really persistent , nasty little juvenile offenders . |
| 14 | By the end of 1922 the figure had jumped to a remarkable 155 , showing that recovery was on the way and economic activity increasing . |
| 15 | So she had jumped to a few incorrect conclusions about Piers . |
| 16 | Luke had jumped to the wrong conclusion about Richard , and she did n't intend to enlighten him — yet . |
| 17 | And she , Merrill , had jumped to the obvious conclusion that Luke was trying to hide his past association with her cousin because he felt some guilt over the manner of her death . |
| 18 | He , Harper and Smith had jumped to the ground when the fire started . |
| 19 | It was windy and the cedar , which he had likened to a galleon and Zosie to a witch , danced witch-like , its branches arms and leaping legs and flying skirts . |
| 20 | Dr Kemp himself ! — the man who had one day been deprived of a jewel which he himself had traced to an American collector , a jewel for which he had been negotiating , a jewel that had been found in the waters below the bridge at Wolvercote in 1873 , a jewel which once united with its mate would doubtless be the subject of some considerable historical interest , and bring some short-term celebrity , possibly some long-term preferment , to himself — to Kemp . |
| 21 | Two fences later , as the runners swerved left over the Canal Turn , he had sped to the front and was inexorably increasing his advantage and turning the Grand National into a glorious exhibition round . |
| 22 | It may even be that it was done to make possible the appointment of this particular scholar , a native of Bosnasarayi who had taught to the level . |
| 23 | They crashed to 4p on news that the recession-bashed property group had plunged to a £41.6m loss ( from £7.15m profit ) . |
| 24 | Once an estate had devolved to the heir , a legatee per vindicationem was immediately able to vindicate the object from the heir , for the legatee was himself owner . |
| 25 | He had left her and gone to live with an upper-class woman , had soared to the opposite end of the scale from Josie , whose attraction for him had been that of a splenetic victim from the lower depths of the goyim : but Josie had refused a divorce and the ordeal had dragged on . |
| 26 | Her third single — SAW 's version of her old favourite , Little Eva 's ‘ The Loco-Motion ’ , — had soared to the number two slot maintaining her record of getting her releases in the top two . |
| 27 | ln that time , the sixty men had adjusted to the soldiers ' normal routine of work at night and lie-up during the day . |
| 28 | Either that , or my eyes had adjusted to the gloom . |
| 29 | He shaded his eyes and blinked for a few seconds until he had adjusted to the change . |
| 30 | But whereas Packford had adjusted to the age of new technology and the design possibilities it offered , Sutton remained wedded , at heart , to the old hot-metal approach . |