Example sentences of "have [adv] [adv] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Christmas Eve assault has only just come to light because the 13-year-old victim was too terrified to report it earlier . |
| 2 | Townsend , who has only just returned to Premiership action for new club Aston Villa , said : ‘ It has been a slight worry but I 'm in no pain and after today 's training I know I 'll definitely play . ’ |
| 3 | It exists largely as a product of the institutions of higher education ( Sarsby 1984 : 132 ) and has only recently begun to surface in policy and practice . |
| 4 | The road has only recently come to Uçagiz ; the whole area emanates a powerful feeling of being on the edge of the world . |
| 5 | Murray 's Just Jeremy , on which she led the dressage section from Thomson by less than half a point , has only recently returned to competition following a lengthy lay-off after an operation to cure a breathing problem . |
| 6 | The legislation was introduced as part of a more general swing in the climate of opinion which has almost certainly contributed to changes that have taken place in the recent past : girls ' achievement , while still below that of boys ' , has nevertheless begun to catch up . |
| 7 | ‘ Colonel Fagg has never quite come to terms with the end of the Second World War , I 'm afraid , Elsa . |
| 8 | She must be dreaming , but surely she had only just gone to sleep . |
| 9 | We had only really talked to Mr Postman on the regular occasions — Dusshera , Diwali , Christmas , New Year — that he came looking for tips , but were flattered by the invitation and out of curiosity decided to take it up . |
| 10 | Burleigh itself had been founded — no , started — between the wars , had survived the Depression ( as the South of England middle classes in general had so signally managed to coast blithely through the Depression ) and had offered over the years an alternative to the Grammar , Secondary Modern and Technical Schools of the town of Cullbridge . |
| 11 | And the paragraph , composed after he had gone limp , would surely demonstrate to any reader that he , the writer , was temperamentally incapable of doing all the things he had so unwisely confessed to Robert . |
| 12 | After the plans had been shelved , the whole place had been leased out to various small-time manufacturers and warehousemen ; the broken-down sheds and godowns must still be the property of somebody , so too must be the piles of crates whose stencilled lettering had long since faded to pallor . |
| 13 | His wife and daughters had long since gone to bed . |
| 14 | The Airds had long since gone to bed . |
| 15 | No. 9 had long since gone to bed , so I crept up the stairs as quietly as I could . |
| 16 | His former general , Lord George Murray , after a final reproachful letter to the Prince , had long since fled to Holland to end his days in exile , and most of Charles 's other leading supporters had by now either escaped abroad or been rounded up . |
| 17 | But as he tried to think of his work ( Charles had long since ceased to grace it with the name of ‘ his career ’ ) , his thoughts kept returning to the Steen situation . |
| 18 | They had long ago come to terms with that sorrow . |
| 19 | Tony 's tragic death , that terrible ending of his young life , was something she had long ago come to terms with . |
| 20 | Mrs Tain ex-Kinlochewe had long ago retired to bed . |
| 21 | I 've already briefly referred to item ten , and that is we 've had to increase the numbers in registration inspection during the current year , and that demand will continue , there is no provision in the base for the ongoing costs for staff who 're appointed . |
| 22 | Simon had hardly ever spoken to Marie about his family . |
| 23 | On this occasion he effectively vetoed the possibility that Hoare might become Viceroy , on the ground that no Secretary of State for India had ever previously gone to Calcutta or Delhi . |
| 24 | Since , as will be seen , Molla Fenari had almost certainly gone to Egypt for further study by that date , it follows that if Husameddin is right , it must have been in Amasya that Molla Fenari studied under Cemaleddin Aksarayi . |
| 25 | Andrew 's opinion of the new help was that she looked well fed , but he had then further remarked to Peggy that he hoped , now that she had help , he would benefit for , being less employed , she would be less tired . |
| 26 | ‘ But I 've never just listened to Johnny Marr , ’ Bernard continues . |
| 27 | The latter claimed that the car was still theirs since X had never paid and property had therefore never passed to X. It was held , however , that Mr. Carter had obtained good title under section 25 . |
| 28 | " Well , I 'm not quite sure that she might n't burst into tears , or perhaps suddenly take all her clothes off " This had actually once happened to Richard at Nestor and Sage , the investment counsellors where he worked . |
| 29 | Denis , in his nine years in the United States had never really taken to baseball . |
| 30 | Many of the people on my courses on dying , for example , had never really come to terms with the inevitability of death in their own lives , and many a time we had to stop to allow distressed and upset people to leave the room . |