Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Dors , who has since shown herself to be a capable character actress , remembers her bubble-bathing days as a cushion for male dreams with amused tolerance : |
| 2 | Quite how the party which has successfully brought us to economic misery and industrial impotence can make such a claim seems to suggest some very muddled thinking . |
| 3 | The vague beige word that has naturally attached itself to Mr Major is ‘ nice ’ . |
| 4 | To be sure we are seeing it in a grotesquely parodied form , but what leads to Celia being nearly raped is nothing less than the prevailing structures of patriarchal and heterosexual authority : it is after all her hitherto paranoidly jealous husband who has literally dragged her to Volpone 's bed . |
| 5 | The Alexander Technique , which is a way of allowing the body and mind to work together in order to avoid muscular tension , has constantly helped me to be calmer in stressful situations . |
| 6 | In ( 135 ) , although make would have been possible , the writer has chosen cause , and has thus felt it to be more appropriate to represent the subject of the verb ( " raising the temperature of a compound " ) as an external condition which sets off a reaction of decomposition in compounds rather than as an agent which exerts its causative action at the same time as the reaction occurs . |
| 7 | Perhaps , he thinks , this has finally brought us to our senses . |
| 8 | She has just given herself to him , and now she is regretting it . |
| 9 | Len Snow , Boateng 's agent says : ‘ His principles have n't changed — he has just adapted them to the '90s . ’ |
| 10 | He has already given them to us . |
| 11 | Someone has already taught it to be aggressive towards people : they have reinforced a natural tendency for aggression and its expression . |
| 12 | NCR Corp is now offering Japanese LAN Manager for Unix Systems OEM kit , Unix-based network operating system designed specifically for the Japanese market , and has already licensed it to Fujitsu Ltd , NEC Corp , Toshiba Corp and Nippon Unisys KK . |
| 13 | Nonetheless , it may be sobering for the European governments considering stockpiles that the private sector has already beaten them to it — and that the stores of the materials themselves are tantalisingly close to the industries that , some day , may be desperate for supplies . |
| 14 | ‘ To be fair , it 's a hell of an act to follow when you consider Gordon has already led us to two championships in the space of three seasons . |
| 15 | By introducing tough new health warnings and refusing to give in to the tobacco industry 's demands , Mr Waldegrave has already shown himself to be the most effective Health Minister since Sir George Young 's short tenure . |
| 16 | It also has certain opportunities , for example the University has already shown itself to be a leading research centre . |
| 17 | She watched him in reluctant fascination as he put to her , ‘ When it comes to being irresponsible , your brother , I 'm afraid , has already proved himself to be in the top league . ’ |
| 18 | Carrickfergus has already proved itself to be a popular commuter town with a population of over 32,500 . |
| 19 | Secretary reports that he has already put it to good use . |
| 20 | ‘ So it makes no sense at all for the bookseller to be buying and promoting a new title at , say , £14.99 when a book club has already offered it to its public at £8.99 — as happened last month . |
| 21 | Nobody has ever donated anything to them before . |
| 22 | The original Hebrew does not quite spell that out in detail , but that was what was meant , and has forever attached itself to the sin of sodomy which was until recently against the law and still is with those under 21 years of age . |
| 23 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has always shown himself to be a listening Minister . |
| 24 | I think he has still got them to this day , ’ says his father . |
| 25 | It has also aided me to be more relaxed whilst driving . |
| 26 | It has also exposed them to explosions and radioactivity . |
| 27 | Lang has also pledged himself to an increased emphasis on the teaching of art history at secondary school and college level . |
| 28 | ‘ We have our noses in front now and the goals column has also transferred itself to us . |
| 29 | The burgeoning opposition movement here has also extended itself to the army . |
| 30 | The aesthetic evidenced in these rooms has also brought us to the brink of World War Ill . |