Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] it [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone who suggests a new idea only to have it squashed may deduce that the context is not one for putting forward ideas . |
| 2 | Many various-sized painted plaster images are on sale and quite a number with large pieces broken off are being brought back in torn imitation plastic leather bags , only to have it explained that the purchasers probably have not been confessing enough and absolution is only granted by their completing a 13-page questionnaire through which they get a special adhesive that breaks all mends . |
| 3 | The greatest deprivation was German sausage , made more intense for one boy who had brought a whole salami all the way from Vienna only to have it thrown away by a Dovercourt helper ‘ because it did n't smell right ’ . |
| 4 | In the Prose Edda , for instance , Aurvandill is a companion of the god Thórr , who loses a toe to frostbite only to have it thrown into the sky to become a star ; as one might have guessed from Christ , ‘ Earendel ’ is the old name of a star or planet . |
| 5 | Wilson did put some flesh on the bones in a television interview with Norman Hunt , only to have it torn off in strips by the venerable Bridges , long since retired but still a determined advocate of a unitary Treasury dominating economic policy from the centre . |
| 6 | She moved her own hand towards her neck only to have it seized by Rune 's . |
| 7 | At a plenum of the CPSU central committee , held in closed session on April 24-25 , Gorbachev defeated an attempt to force his removal from the post of party general secretary , and then called the bluff of his critics inside the party by offering his resignation , only to have it refused . |
| 8 | it 's up to him whether it 's , whether they say it 's right or wrong I think , I think what the council said is if they , if they want it , the thing shifting , they are strong enough to get it shifted if they , if they , if they really feel that the things rot , you see up in the Dales they , one chap built a house and er , and they said they had to pull it down because it would n't fit in with , of |
| 9 | Due for Sarah to come round soon to have it trimmed again ai n't you ? |
| 10 | You have to pay so much anyway to have it changed . |
| 11 | Just to have it cut and blow dried ? |
| 12 | Oh well yeah I 'd have to bring it home to have it done . |
| 13 | In one of the most tantalising promises yet made in the computer industry , Unix System Laboratories Inc is claiming that independent software vendors who port their applications to its Destiny desktop implementation of Unix SVR4 will only have to do so once to have it run on the disparate architectures of Intel Corp , Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc RISC , MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC , Hewlett-Packard Co PA RISC and IBM Corp 's RS/6000 RISC . |
| 14 | At the mere mention of a coat , she sits , eyes closed , nose pointing upwards to have it slipped on , then stands for the belt to be fastened . |
| 15 | But that it took another oh quite a number of years really to get it started up . |
| 16 | An MP who 's been campaigning for years to have the road improved said tonight that he 'll be pressing the government yet again to have it upgraded to a dual carriageway . |
| 17 | Such contradictions are bound to beset a working class party in power , if it does not oppose capitalism , but tries instead to make it run more efficiently and more humanely ’ ( Glyn and Sutcliffe , 1972 , p.213 ) . |