Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have been some exceptions ( again , perhaps because insufficient phase-one training was given ) ( Arnoult 1953 ; McAllister 1953 ; McCormack 1958 ) but for the most part the test performance of control subjects has turned out to be inferior to that of subjects pre-trained with the relevant stimuli ( G. Cantor 1955 ; J. Cantor 1955 ; Cantor and Hottel 1957 ; Smith and Means 1961 ; Hendrickson and Muehl 1962 ) . |
| 2 | Then David looked up and , as though the desperate misery in his eyes had called out to her , Julia went and knelt on the hard , icy floor at his feet , reaching up with both hands . |
| 3 | His eyes had flicked up to the top of the small cliff to our left . |
| 4 | Numbers increased slightly in March ( to around 14,500 ) , but Kleiner was concerned that job shortages had caused up to 1,000,000 Soviet Jews to cancel or postpone emigrating to Israel . |
| 5 | Earlier a smaller number of Cardiff supporters had run on to the pitch in celebration of their side 's equaliser in a game which the Welsh club eventually won 4–2 . |
| 6 | At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed . |
| 7 | All the little steps have added up to a high achievement . |
| 8 | St Alban 's never had a player capped , though many of their lads have gone on to be decapitated , especially in internationals . |
| 9 | As a rough guide two strands wound together make something approximately like three-ply in thickness and three together are usually reckoned to be about a four-ply. these fine industrial yarns used to be in the ‘ odds and ends ’ bins , but the manufacturers have caught on to the fact that they are popular with machine knitters , so now they can be bought under a brand name . |
| 10 | I was very pleased with the finished result , but I must confess , after wearing it several times , a few of the cut floats have worked through to the front . |
| 11 | And genetic engineers seeking to develop new characteristics in farm animals have tapped in to Buckhaven 's expertise for intermediates used in the synthesis of proteins . |
| 12 | Because our our months have come down to us from all sorts of historical reasons . |
| 13 | Resident outside the airfield 's motel for nearly 30 years , it was beginning to look very much the worse for wear and , as other Ouragons have given in to the ravages of time , attract the nearest of museums . |
| 14 | The actor who played Dirty Den in Eastenders has gone back to the prison where he was once an inmate . |
| 15 | They tended to cast doubt on the objective nature of the atonement — at least the Catholic scholastics and Reformers had held on to that — stressing instead the subjective changes wrought in mankind by Christ 's sacrifice ( such as a growth in God-consciousness or moral transformation ) . |
| 16 | Last night , after her parents had gone up to bed , and Aubrey very tactfully made himself scarce , I had a chance to ask her . |
| 17 | It was a glorious victory when he managed to persuade the grown-ups to let him stay on after his parents had gone back to Manchester . |
| 18 | I had surely noticed that nearly all the ingredients had come on to the train fresh ? |
| 19 | In 1914 the art schools had all but atrophied ; the models had gone off to the munitions factories , and students had been replaced by retired businessmen seeking distraction from their troubles . |
| 20 | Hoddle 's anger came after Rovers had pulled back to 4-3 with a goal two minutes from time from a free-kick awarded when goalkeeper Frazer Digby picked up a loose ball . |
| 21 | Subsequent reports said that rescuers had recovered up to 180 bodies from the wreckage . |
| 22 | Parents have handed over to an outsider to solve a problem he or she never has to face . |
| 23 | Over the years some famous visitors have dropped in to Cheers : Emma Thompson , Roger Reed and John Cleese , who won an Emmy for his 1987 appearance as marriage counsellor Simon Finch-Royce . |
| 24 | Over the years some famous visitors have dropped in to Cheers : Emma Thompson , Roger Reece and John Cleese , who won an Emmy for his 1987 appearance as marriage counsellor Simon Finch Royce . |
| 25 | EXCEPT at the highest of America 's ski resorts , the lifts have stopped and the instructors have moved on to Argentina or New Zealand . |
| 26 | The big surf companies have caught on to such a trend towards the plain and dark : Quicksilver is understood to be behind the Pirate Surf label , and Gotcha runs a second , more cultish label called More Core Division . |
| 27 | It is funny because their lives have crossed over to what mine used to be . |
| 28 | Recently such movements have involved up to 960 birds in one spring , and movements of 100 or more in a day are almost annual events ; 488 flying east off Beachy Head on 19 April 1976 is the largest single movement noted so far . |
| 29 | Earlier in the year fittingly , during Passover , the festival which celebrates the Israelites ' escape from Egypt and the beginning of the journey which eventually took them to the Promised Land — Rabbi Moishe announced with quiet satisfaction that their contributions had mounted up to a sum sufficient to buy three hundred dunams of land in Palestine , that the purchase was in the process of being arranged on their behalf by the Jewish National Fund , and that he himself would lead an advance party of settlers from Cork before the end of 1920 . |
| 30 | A Press Trust of India ( PTI ) report claimed that Myanman troops had killed up to 36 Rohingyas on April 5 during an attack on Maungdaw , Arakan province . |