Example sentences of "[noun sg] who have [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clinton was much like the others — a rangy boy with a tuxedo in his trunk who had come to Oxford to study political science and to read all he could before starting to build a career in law and government . |
| 2 | Similarly we may see the nutter as a pathetic figure who has to resort to self-humiliation in order to establish an identity for himself . |
| 3 | And the person who was going to lead them to this golden opportunity was the new driving force who had come to the fore and already earned himself the nickname of ‘ the Eddie Shah of News on Sunday ’ — Chris Walsh . |
| 4 | But one proved to be the young courier who had come to Hoddom , the other his father , a magistrate of the town . |
| 5 | A People 's Daily editorial of Jan. 16 , 1990 , entitled Leadership must be in the hands of loyal Marxists , called for the dismissal of party leaders " who do not have a firm political stand or staunch political qualities " , while Qiao Shi ( a member of the politburo standing committee who had risen to prominence in the immediate aftermath of the Tiananmen massacre — see p. 36721 ) called for " particular efforts " to be made in strengthening party centralism and unity , and urged increased supervision over the implementation of central committee decisions at all levels . |
| 6 | No particular accent is asked for , but Mike is not the conventional public school type who has gone to Cambridge . |
| 7 | The Palace , set in idyllic leafy grounds in west London ( the first magnolia to be cultivated in Europe was grown here ) , is owned by Church of England and sub-let to Hammersmith and Fulham Council who have contributed to the cost of the new rooms . |
| 8 | But I shall certainly be looking into the circumstances of the provider who has written to me . |
| 9 | a legendary monster said to have been born to a wealthy lady who had referred to a beggar 's child as a nasty pig . |
| 10 | And his network will tell him about the consultant who 's got to the top by achieving top-class results . |
| 11 | The newsreader mentioned a child who had gone to the States for a life-saving operation , a vital double transplant that had never been done in Britain . |
| 12 | The court heard that it was a nursing auxiliary who had spoken to her about Liam after finding him alone in his room and looking pale in his incubator . |
| 13 | She looked into the eyes of this human peacock and found herself at a complete loss for words ; and he too seemed surprised by this girl who had agreed to be his bride : he looked up at her ( she was half a head taller than he ) in a way that she might have interpreted as hostile had she not been in too much of a turmoil herself to notice it . |
| 14 | She was next in line to Lily , five years older than the girl who had come to Riverstown and had the whole world in her pocket , so far as Bernadette could see . |
| 15 | There was really very little to talk about , since they 'd seen each other at breakfast , so conversation became desultory once Irene had told Juliet about the other patients — the hysterectomies , the ovarian cyst as big as a football , and the girl who had come to be sterilised and was found to be pregnant . |
| 16 | Elena returns to Rudby A sporting afternoon at Stokesley tomorrow will raise money for a four-year-old Lithuanian girl who has returned to this country for medical treatment . |
| 17 | And then you get lots of other unwelcome knocks on the door — one man who says he 's looking for number 11 , another who says he 's a taxi-driver who 's come to the wrong house — and he probably is but his timing is enough to make you rush about panicking and locking the place up like Fort Knox . |
| 18 | ( 9 ) A member of a licensing board who has ceased to be a member of the authority by whom he was appointed by reason of an ordinary election to the council of that authority shall continue to be a member of the board until the first meeting of the council after the election . |
| 19 | They had always been a close family and that night they had all ended up in tears after a lengthy talk with their family GP who had come to the house to talk to them about Jennifer 's diagnosis . |
| 20 | Until about nine months ago it was normal to heap all the blame on his Interior Secretary , James Wan , a born-again Christian who has stuck to the letter of Genesis in his attempts to have the Earth subdued . |
| 21 | All the men of the community who had to travel to the country every week to sell their goods — at least , any who did n't have his own means of transport — had for months been finding it increasingly difficult relying on the railways . |
| 22 | An actor who had written to Meredith on many occasions — always enclosing , as his wife was at pains to point out , his page number in Spotlight and a stamped addressed envelope , without ever once receiving so much as an acknowledgement in return — was unfortunately dead . |
| 23 | Had it not been for the activities of Lady Laetitia 's lover , bold Sir Rupert Cartland ( played by an odious young actor who 'd risen to prominence by playing a tough naval lieutenant in a television series ) making with the garlic and the wooden stakes ( a bit of vampire lore crept into the script ) , Lady Laetitia and her father would have been turned into zombies and carried back to the subterranean cave , where they would never be heard of again . |
| 24 | In several ways his position reminds me of Bakhtin , that other thinker who has come to our rescue from the ( necessary ) tribulations of post-Saussurean thought . |
| 25 | This is an author who has contributed to the Russia which has come after him — to the emergence there , at the present time , of the demand for a lawful Opposition , for the duality of democracy . |
| 26 | Rose and Mary were for once showing a united front and refused to leave the kitchen because they did n't quite like the way the young women from the town who had come to be waitresses were poking and prying into their cupboards with their noses in the air . |
| 27 | In August he went again to Switzerland , and for a week in September he looked after his grandniece who had travelled to London to see him ; but then he contracted athlete 's foot and had once again to enter a nursing home . |
| 28 | Erich Honecker , the former East German leader who had fled to the Soviet Union in March [ see p. 38110 ] , sought refuge in the Chilean embassy in Moscow on Dec. 12 . |
| 29 | On Nov. 12 Erich Honecker , 80 , the former East German leader who had returned to Germany in July 1992 [ see p. 39023 ] , and five of his colleagues went on trial in a Berlin state court . |
| 30 | He says he 's a teen idol who 's grown to be very rich . |