Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] have [adv] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ All that 's fine , ’ I said , though I was n't particularly interested in the vows of a child who had just gone to boarding school . |
| 2 | Amongst those detained was a Belgian Member of the European Parliament who had earlier disclosed to the newspapers plans for a 3 km-wide ‘ waste island ’ off Zeebrugge . |
| 3 | The crowds who gathered round the palace were respectable citizens cheering a king who had already conceded to the army and to provincial garrisons : they were not an organized pressure group which had forced the crown to become liberal by accepting the constitution of 1812 , appointing a liberal municipality , and a Junta to supervise the establishment of the constitution . |
| 4 | The news that the Collector had been seen doing his own laundry caused a mild sensation at first and was interpreted as the long-awaited collapse , particularly by those members of the garrison who had once belonged to the " bolting " party . |
| 5 | I need to know where I can find a woman who has recently returned to her family after having run away with a man called Resenence Jeopardy . ’ |
| 6 | The Administration decided that it applied to any coal owner who had actively sought to mine the coal up to the day the law was passed . |
| 7 | He remembered the many faces of Sylvie , the child-woman with the mischievous glance who had stolen apples in the Paris market , the girl he had obsessively trailed , the passionate creature who had boldly come to his flat and pleasured him to the point of pain , the frightened child who pushed him away and clung to him simultaneously . |
| 8 | That small problem solved itself readily : one door stood open with Bruce Davidson leaning on the side in a careful presentation of a man who had just happened to be passing . |
| 9 | Hands tingling with fear , hearing only the thundering of her heart , Isabel stepped over the threshold to confront the wife of the man who had once come to her aid , and whom she must now betray . |
| 10 | Athelstan agreed ; the landlord of the Piebald Horse was a one-armed , reformed sea pirate who had confidentially explained to the friar how he would love to go to church but the smell of incense always made him feel ill . |
| 11 | He 's like a dictator who 's just come to power and does all the awful violent things at once , like changing the laws and murdering people and confiscating everything — then later on it 'll all be taken for granted and he can play at being kind and good . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I remember when Jason first came and auditioned for me one day after school in his school uniform , very hot and perspiring , and a typical teenage schoolboy who had just run to the audition . |
| 13 | The government 's inertia was demonstrated both by its reluctance to investigate the murder of Council member Serge Villard in June , and its failure to arrest Williams Regala , a notorious Duvalierist former military officer and minister who had openly returned to Haiti in July despite the existence of an outstanding warrant for his arrest . |
| 14 | Michael Perrin , a young research worker who had just returned to Winnington from Amsterdam took his place . |