Example sentences of "have [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is good to know that Scottish Amicable has long since grown sufficiently to be able to invest in large properties . |
| 2 | Even though my children 's reading has long since moved on to Roald Dahl , C S Lewis and Judy Blume , the story ‘ template ’ is there , the dubious role models of their best-loved tales are firmly entrenched and I 'm beginning to wonder if they are there for life . |
| 3 | By the time Alaric finally finished the twelfth Runefang Sigmar has long since passed eastward to whatever fate became him , and the original chieftains who had fought at Black Fire Pass were long dead . |
| 4 | But she still stresses the necessity of an expert test — and the board 's concern that the information has not yet got through to all the householders in the area who are at risk . |
| 5 | The anomaly has not always worked entirely to the advantage of Scotland because , as a result of the requirements of a separate legal system , the British Parliament can not meet fully the need for modernising , reforming and improving that legal system . |
| 6 | At least the telly has n't yet cottoned on to the dogs , I told him , but he said in Mexico it had . |
| 7 | Ironically , the Somerset bowling has n't quite lived up to the predictions . |
| 8 | Writing to Ellen , she could not help be bitter , remarking : — all life seems a trap again Ellen and I expect it has too often seemed so to you and will yet . |
| 9 | In addition , it believes Encina could have quite conceivably gone on to the ES/9000 mainframe instead of Tuxedo , but thinks IBM 's deal with USL for that technology is effectively a spoiler for Amdahl Corp 's Tuxedo TP system offering on its IBM-compatible Unix mainframes . |
| 10 | I 've only just got back to the UK ’ He looked around him . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've only just got back to my room and picked up your message . |
| 12 | ‘ I have been scribbling since infancy , though I 've only now buckled down to it . |
| 13 | It was disappointing to discover on asking if I could have them to find that the museum had only just got round to registering what appeared to be Audubon 's proofs . |
| 14 | Both Gary Smith and Barry Dowdeswell , chief executive of the Royal Victoria Infirmary , Newcastle 's oldest teaching hospital , agreed that the acute hospitals had only just woken up to community care . |
| 15 | This was BBC Television , an off-shoot of the world-renowned and world-respected BBC Radio service that had so admirably lived up to its motto to ‘ educate , inform and entertain' the general public throughout the war . |
| 16 | There , as Blair had so persuasively pointed out to Sloane , he diligently tilled his soil to cultivate the beautiful flowers and shrubs of which , in later writings , his own appreciation was always apparent . |
| 17 | He also knew that the next few minutes could lose what chance had so miraculously delivered up to him at long last . |
| 18 | Which were still dark ; the people had not yet gone upstairs to bed . |
| 19 | As she could hear Jack coming down the stairs she returned to the kitchen and picked up the metal spoon and plunged it into the saucepan which she had not yet put on to heat . |
| 20 | Even foreign tourists who had not yet caught on to the realities of life in Romania and perhaps were over-insistent in demanding from a minor bureaucrat of the tourist office why some essential and prepaid feature of their holiday had failed to materialize would be confronted by a shrug of the shoulders and the muttered words , ‘ Epocha Ceauşescu , as the only explanation . |
| 21 | Or : ‘ The swift blinking of his eyes and the trembling of his sensitive hands … aroused feelings in him that he had not ever owned up to even to himself ’ ? |
| 22 | British industry had not therefore responded well to the European challenge , and Bonn and Paris remained the strongest elements in the EC . |
| 23 | She said to her lap , ‘ I — I had not quite got round to it — ’ |
| 24 | And can I just say , a governing body that I am on , I 've just recently gone on to , employs private cleaning contractors , it did n't want the D S O , and ever since that contract has come in , they have been in terrible , terrible trouble . |
| 25 | As er you 've not even come close to being involved in anything like it . |
| 26 | No that 's not correct because I 've also already called up to P C into that master bedroom when I 've left or as I was about to handcuff er the man . |
| 27 | It came from the paper 's Atticus column , and was a couple of years old — it looked as if Bill had n't yet got round to filing the latest news on Puddephat . |
| 28 | It still had n't really filtered through to him until he was actually on the ground working , and he just really could n't cope with that . |
| 29 | Anyway , so I , I was getting a bit worried about it , and , I can , cos I was having these headaches , and I started talking to Phil and I , I had n't really said much to him about it . |
| 30 | I admitted that I had n't quite got around to organizing that aspect of my life yet . |