Example sentences of "[noun prp] ['s] [noun pl] have [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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1 | Meanwhile Grom 's attentions had turned to the west and to the coastal regions of the Empire . |
2 | Jake 's eyes had narrowed to pinpoints . |
3 | Lucenzo 's eyes had strayed to the child , who was contentedly wrapped in his father 's embrace . |
4 | Meanwhile Murray 's parents have travelled to Cheltenham from their home in Liverpool , and his college friends are preparing to hold a memorial service . |
5 | Long before Buckmaster 's eyes had turned to politics and he 'd become the youngest MP in the Commons , leaving Morgan to run the largest security organization in the world . |
6 | STOP PRESS Manky 's Marauders have failed to umpire again for the 10th year running thereby creating a new league record . |
7 | Roman 's eyes had narrowed to dark , shuttered slits as he watched her . |
8 | Now , Monday 's fashion ; the clocks have gone back ; and , naturally , Carol Smillie 's attentions have turned to bed . |
9 | Mr Yeltsin 's opponents have responded to this defeat by pretending it did n't happen . |
10 | Amal 's parents had travelled to the Emirates for the weekend and would not return until Saturday noon . |
11 | The sadness in Monique Lavaux 's eyes had emphasised to her that there was no future in allowing herself to love a man who was committed to another woman . |
12 | ‘ There is a dangerous rising afoot against Duke William in Normandy , and half my lord Osbern 's relatives have gone to the aid of the Duke , the flesh-seeking spears in their hands . |
13 | A recently released book examining how the de-regulation of Australia 's banks has added to the burden of Third World debt . |
14 | Aylesbury 's footballers have progressed to the second round of the FA Cup — and an away tie at Northampton Town — without a flutter of recognition from the whiter-than-white duck which provides their nickname . |
15 | Aylesbury 's footballers have progressed to the second round of the FA Cup — and an away tie at Northampton Town — without a flutter of recognition from the whiter-than-white duck which provides their nickname . |
16 | If only there is a way — ’ And stopped , because Nuadu 's eyes had gone to the silver door . |
17 | Asia 's governments have responded to the war with varying degrees of enthusiasm , discomfort and cynicism . |
18 | Others wrote about what Walter Machin 's books had meant to them at the time of their publication , and to these Viola wrote faintly magisterial replies of thanks and interest which usually also contained subtle plugs for the two books which were as yet unpublished . |