Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it seems more likely that this fear has more to do with the childhood horror of seeing the parent scream at the ‘ smothering ’ cat that has just jumped up on to a cot or bed . |
| 2 | Periodically the ship had literally sailed up on to the tug , ramming her bows against the stern , and finally the towing hawser had ripped out the capstan to which it was fastened . |
| 3 | Her massive bosom was heaving in and out and the splash of water down the front of it made a dark wet patch that had probably soaked right through to her skin . |
| 4 | When I went to find her , however , I discovered she had gone right to the top of the house to talk to Heathcliff through his locked bedroom door , and had then climbed out on to the roof and in through his window . |
| 5 | ‘ I know how much we have already put in up to the end of 1992 and I know what we could be asked for for 1993 , ’ Longuet said , but the size of the sums is to embarrassing for him to reveal them — but he did say they were incompatible with what the European Commission would allow and what French taxpayers wanted . |
| 6 | It is all the fault of speculators who used the cars as a means of making mega-bucks , like buying paintings or antiques , rather than as personal playthings. 11 MC2966 meteoric rise in the price of even the most mundane of so-called classic motorcars , such as Morris Minors and Volkswagen Beetles , which have now come back down to earth with a thud . |