Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes had flicked up to the top of the small cliff to our left . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The actor who played Dirty Den in Eastenders has gone back to the prison where he was once an inmate . |
| 8 | I had surely noticed that nearly all the ingredients had come on to the train fresh ? |
| 9 | In 1914 the art schools had all but atrophied ; the models had gone off to the munitions factories , and students had been replaced by retired businessmen seeking distraction from their troubles . |
| 10 | Governments had to live up to the mythical images of themselves which were part of their acceptability . |
| 11 | To lose height pilots have to spiral down to the runway . |
| 12 | But there it was , The Cottage , its porch right over the pavement to the gutter , red reflectors for night traffic on its corners , pedestrians having to detour on to the road before regaining the pavement again . |
| 13 | In short the movies had broken through to the masses and had the power to pull in almost anybody and everybody who helped constitute the masses . |
| 14 | But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man . |
| 15 | ‘ Prices at the top end have fallen quite dramatically and now unemployment fears have filtered through to the middle and lower end of the market . ’ |
| 16 | It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field . |
| 17 | In spite of such precautions , bugs have dropped on to the pillow of the sick woman before the visitor 's eyes … |
| 18 | Other imbibers have gone over to the dark side of beer , rejecting the pasteurised lager produced by the breweries . |
| 19 | These external pressures have worked through to the universities , and it may be argued that the current problems universities face in regard to research funding in the earth sciences are the result of the rapid , uncontrolled increases in the 1970's . |
| 20 | The jackets had to go back to the sweatshop , making for an unnecessary and annoying delay . |
| 21 | Hoxha 's statue was pulled down , and there were clashes with police in which up to 20 people were injured according to opposition sources , although eyewitness reports said also that some members of the security forces had gone over to the side of the demonstrators . |
| 22 | Other leaders have gone over to the Anaheim Vineyard for training . |
| 23 | The field is led by Miró with a rise of 1090% one of the few artists to have held on to the gains of the 1988–90 period . |
| 24 | When the men had gone back to the Inn Allen dropped out of the tree and ran down the slope to her . |
| 25 | The men had gone back to the bunk shelf and their feet swung , threatening and powerful , beside his face . |
| 26 | He 'd pulled out a handful of coins , at the same time grabbing her shoulder , but Midnight had moved aside pulling Jess with him , and the other two men had hung on to the furious Paddy . |
| 27 | Two men had driven up to the gate in a van containing a 70 kg bomb which they then detonated . |
| 28 | Not so many spectators had trudged out to the furthest holes along the seashore . |
| 29 | The women and children had gone off to the caves — , ‘ Did you not fight ? ’ |
| 30 | Throughout the first months a beginner learns that in executing the basic reverse punch and the lunge punch , his hands have to withdraw back to the body in order to repeat the procedure over and over again . |