Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he has made standing up to the teaching unions his thing . |
| 2 | The higher , reasoning brain has handed control over to the instinctive brain . |
| 3 | This speech has now completely turned the play around and has begun to lead on to the tragedy at the end of it , Brutus , the nobleman 's , death . |
| 4 | Without naming his new guru , the Zimbabwe-born batsman — who has failed to live up to the blaze of publicity which greeted his arrival on the Test scene in 1991 — revealed that his poor form in five-day games against Pakistan last summer led him to seek psychiatric advice . |
| 5 | While Chancellor Kohl 's CDU-CSU alliance holds 309 of the 652 seats , far more than its closest rivals , the Social Democrats , who have 239 , it could not govern without the support of Hans Dietrich-Genscher 's FDP — which is why Genscher has managed to hold on to the post of Foreign Minister for so long . |
| 6 | She 'd tried to hold on to the anger she 'd felt earlier , but it had slipped away from her , dissolving with the wine . |
| 7 | The Corporal stopped , ordering the boy who 'd fired to go back to the spot and engage the malais as they came down the road . |
| 8 | She secured her garage door and , having decided to walk round to the front of the building to find out what Naylor was so furious about , she turned around — and found she had no need to go anywhere . |
| 9 | She got home to Kington Square at last , still grubby , very hungry , quite dispirited and having had to hand over to the police the document which had cost her an unreasonable amount of suffering . |
| 10 | If we fell off the rope we would have had to go back to the start . |
| 11 | By then you will have become tuned in to the driving and will be better able to judge if it is safe to go a little faster . |
| 12 | She could have refused to go back to the Ward house , but she owed this woman everything . |
| 13 | But this will have to involve levelling up to the more advantaged rather than levelling down to the lesser , although future benefits can be reduced so long as diminution is applied equally to both sexes . |
| 14 | They really ought to have got moved down to the bottom . |
| 15 | Here , depressive feelings associated with the originators of agriculture — the weaning mothers of the first , and every , cultivating generation — seem to have become displaced on to the new subsistence-pattern itself . |
| 16 | for me , so , I 've arranged to go back to the dentist then . |
| 17 | He had intended to head back to the funicolare station but perhaps he had taken a wrong turning somewhere in his hurry to get away from Maidstone 's apartment . |
| 18 | In the end , the big woman with the cherries in her hat had dragged the now screaming child from his mother 's arms , pulling poor Edith along with her for a few steps until she had dropped sobbing on to the linoleum . |
| 19 | The time had come to splash out to the tune of forty quid a head for the eight members of his party who had travelled with him from the Forest of Arden to Sussex by the Sea . |
| 20 | Burton said that he had promised to go back to the Old Vic for £45 a week to do Hamlet , and he was sticking to it . |
| 21 | Hitherto the older waist-band had tended to slip on to the horse 's neck and either throttle him or prevent him from pulling hard ; hence the slower and less efficient ox had been generally used . |
| 22 | So we 're looking at it first , I I think in the end , there are schemes that we 've got to put on to the back burner , or the , until such times Lincoln develops further , and there is further development . |
| 23 | The killer is when you 've got to go out to a special occasion is n't it ? |
| 24 | ‘ I 've got to go down to the off-licence later . ’ |
| 25 | If you want to know why things have turned out as they are , you 've got to go back to the beginning . ’ |
| 26 | If you do n't do it , it 'll be two possibly threeish because you 're not too sure , you 've got to go back to the second appointment and he might do it but then again he may not . |
| 27 | So after you 've finished training , you 're going down to the library , yes , to look up the names of the people luve in Street , and once you 've been on that appointment you 've got to go back to the branch and you 're gon na do your mail shots whatever you 're gon na do , put it in there . |
| 28 | It 's obvious with this training thing takes part you know , I 've got to move in to the grotty old school room in so . |
| 29 | It 's not the appointments that matter , it 's the activity around the appointment , the fact that I 'm gon na get up on Monday morning , I 'm gon na go training , and once I 've done that , I 've got to nip down to the library , O K , and look up that electoral role , I 've got an appointment , and then I 'm gon na go back to the office , I 'm gon na to do my mail shots and then I 'm gon na to go home , mow the lawn , have a bit of tea , and then I 'm gon na to my approaching , and then I 'm gon na go , yes , on that appointment there . |
| 30 | We 've got to rush back to the studio in Abingdon now . |