Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv prt] to " 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 Coates ( 1985 , pp. 27 , 77 ) , for example , argues that in recent decades narrative has broken down to be replaced by a cinema of ‘ isolated heterogeneous events held together by the ramshackle constructions of Victorian melodrama ’ , and that from the mid-1960s we have seen the dissolution of the distinction between realist and non-realist film .
3 A few weeks ago I said there were 10 teams in contention , now I reckon it has whittled down to six .
4 TCCB chief executive Alan Smith said last night : ‘ Graham has flown out to India to do a job .
5 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 .
6 Meanwhile , a team of doctors and nurses from one of the region 's biggest hospitals has flown out to Italy tonight , to treat the injured from Sarajevo .
7 ‘ Guy has flown back to London .
8 A reader has pointed out to me : ‘ It is quite unreasonable for you to criticise the scheme since it may not be generally known that any Senior Manager is able to purchase a top-of-the-range BMW K Series four-cylinder model anti-lock brakes , black paint finish , radio etc and still have funds to spare . ’
9 Professor Gilbert Kelling has pointed out to me that , in certain circumstances , bedding planes can be produced by textural and diagenetic differences within " continuous sedimentation " .
10 Given the losses and a circulation that has fallen back to 540,000 , in third place in the race behind the Sunday Times and The Sunday Telegraph , a premium price could not be expected .
11 The number of students who have entered chartered accountancy training contracts since the start of the 1992/93 academic year has fallen back to around 1982 levels , according to the Institute .
12 Suppose now , however , that B , having accepted S 's repudiation in June , sees the market beginning to rise rapidly in July and , in an attempt to minimise his loss before the market rises further , buys replacement goods on July 15 at £115 per ton — ; only to discover that by the delivery date under the original contract ( December 1 ) the market price has fallen back to £110 per ton .
13 President Berisha , however , has given in to the nationalists over the question of property restitution .
14 In 1861 the statistician and economist Cournot observed that ‘ the belief in philosophic truth has cooled off to such an extent that neither the public nor the academies any longer like to receive or to welcome works of this kind , except as products of pure scholarship or historical curiosity . ’
15 Exploration in Middle Devonian volcanic and sedimentary rocks north of Wadebridge in north Cornwall has located up to 1 g/t Au associated with quartz-arsenopyrite veins ( MRP 103 ) .
16 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 .
17 The moral vocabulary of these accusations against sentimentality , leniency and crinolined philanthropy that unfolded in the wake of the great legislative transformations of this era is one which we would find entirely familiar in our own historical time , and which has rolled down to us virtually unchanged across more than a century of resistance to penal reform .
18 Earlier this year Sam , who has earned up to £500,000 a year from her work , was named as Britain 's 179th richest woman .
19 Tormented by allegations of adultery , draft evasion , and venality , he has limped through to victory with an empty campaign , crafted to avoid giving offence to anybody .
20 Hamill , who has dropped back to 34th place in the Challenge Tour order of merit following his recent two-week break , had a three-under par 68 in the third round to leave him with a tournament aggregate of 210 , seven shots behind leader Frederick Larsson of Sweden .
21 Several times it 's happened to me that someone has come up to me and asked if I 've ever done a play .
22 Well , I know the Queen has come up to Buckingham Palace , for the Season .
23 ‘ But it 's not Kinnock ; it 's Mr Gorbachev ; the world has come on to our ground and I find that a source of strength , because at least we know that we 're talking about the capitalist system . ’
24 It has come through to me as a firm conclusion that , if there is such a thing as premonition , it is something which is instantaneous — a flash of intuition … .
25 SCOTLAND ‘ The knock-on effect has come through to us and at last it is being admitted in Scotland that prices are falling , ’ says Dunan McDougall of Ryden Residential in Edinburgh .
26 The second psychoanalytic message that has come through to the public is its preoccupation with sex .
27 Yet , take an accident like that hair in the gate , put it together with the coincidental gaze of a ghost , and it 's as if Fonda really has come back to life .
28 ‘ Zambia has come back to us , ’ Jahsaxa said , dabbing the side of her mouth with a fingernail .
29 For this son of mine was dead and has come back to life ; he was lost and is found ( Luke 15:24 ) .
30 Politics has come back to life as well .
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