Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 Unsure of whether she does owe him an explanation , of how much of her perspective she can get across in a conversation , and unwilling to let go of the London Kate who has broken through to the surface , she is ashamed of her suspicions of his reasons for asking her back to his place and agrees .
2 He is n't allowed to play football and has to go back to the hospital for treatment .
3 ‘ We 've only got her for five years , then she has to go back to the Foundling Hospital . ’
4 The twentieth-century preference for ‘ the colloquial ’ in poetry may well be a temporary phenomenon ; Donald Davie 's Purity of Diction in English Verse ( 1952 ) , together with his admiration for the late Augustans , represent one attempt to revive an interest in the use of a ‘ civilized ’ diction ; it is interesting that he has to go back to the age before Wordsworth .
5 For comparison , one really has to go back to the Renaissance , to someone like Giovanni Bellini , who travelled an enormous territory ; even to Giotto , the artist who Matisse said was the peak of his aspiration .
6 the reader has to go back to the previous stretch of discourse to establish what This refers to .
7 In the meantime he has to go back to the town on further business , but first his horse needs shoeing , his cart needs repairing and he needs food and shelter .
8 He says he 's feeling better but he has to go back to the hospice .
9 Both were successful in their task , Phyllisia no longer has to go back to the West Indies and Celie was reunited with all her family .
10 One only has to see Back to the Future to realize what problems could arise .
11 He calls Howard as soon as he arrives — but Howard has flown out to the Bahamas , for a conference with Bill Mishkin , who is stopping over on his way to Caracas .
12 President Berisha , however , has given in to the nationalists over the question of property restitution .
13 I think it 's more likely to happen on the third or fourth flight , once the bird has caught on to the idea of freedom , which is why it 's important to keep it reasonably hungry .
14 The second psychoanalytic message that has come through to the public is its preoccupation with sex .
15 ‘ Two other factors will make us a better team this season — Keith Finlay has come back to the club from North Fermanagh and that has stiffened our batting while Tony Johnson from Barbados is a superb all rounder . ’
16 Since a much-used living room has to stand up to a lot of traffic , it needs a superior quality , heavy duty carpet of either 100 per cent wool or 80 per cent wool/20 per cent nylon .
17 Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house
18 Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house
19 has to come up to the house to talk to him and erm like he sort of opens the door and just shuts it in his face cos he finds out the other bloke 's a prince and he 's just standing there in the rain .
20 Do n't put yourself in a situation where the treasurer has to come back to the committee to argue over every last penny .
21 A territorial sunbird can time its visits to a particular flower such that its nectar has built up to a high level .
22 ‘ The money I get for the scrap is paid into the Finance Department , and when the fund has built up to a worthwhile sum I 'll be calling for suggestions for a local charity to whom we can donate the cash . ’
23 When the marsh has built up to an elevation such that it is covered only by the highest tides , it is usually reclaimed for pasture by building a simple embankment around it .
24 By Stage three , marketing has moved up to a position of equality with sales .
25 Harris Corp 's Fort Lauderdale , Florida-based Computer Systems Division has moved up to the second generation 88110 version of Motorola Inc 's RISC family with the Night Hawk 5000 series — which ca n't be called Night Hawk in the UK .
26 While I admire the saddle-stitching on the suitcase , Karl has moved on to a conference about the length of Gisela 's fringe .
27 The Labour Party has moved on to the social democratic ground , it may even choose to call itself a social democratic party — in any case , it should complete the process with a constitution to suit .
28 There 's also Bob 's ‘ Songs Of Freedom ’ , a force worldwide , but out of fashion in Jamaica , a country that has moved on to the more bodily delights of raggamuffin .
29 Baton Rouge , Louisiana-based Fifth Generation Systems , a little spitfire in the MS-DOS world , has moved on to the Unix scene with its first Unix product , Fastback Plus Unix , a $345 backup and restore utility for Intel Corp 80386 and 80486 machines running UnixWare , Interactive , SCO Unix , System V.3/V.4 and Consensys V.4.2 .
30 And by now the Prime Minister has moved on to the next sterling crisis .
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