Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [verb] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr William Purves , the bank 's chairman since 1987 , has decided to stick to a strategy developed in the late 1970s . |
| 2 | Imagine a millionaire who has decided to donate to a charity . |
| 3 | In the 15th century there is a dearth of Florentine musical examples of the laude , and Wilson has had to resort to a discussion of the music found in lauda sources from the Veneto . |
| 4 | This stupid rivalry has got to come to an end . ’ |
| 5 | At the moment , the ‘ war ’ has become distilled to a hunt for Pablo Escobar and Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha , two of the heads of the Medellin cartel . |
| 6 | It may also be possible to argue that where the party has failed to respond to a notice of assignment from the purchaser , such lack of action over a long period is an implied consent where that party has dealt with the purchaser after completion . |
| 7 | The accusation , ‘ that person has no conscience ’ , carries a condemnation of character , but the real culprit is the society which has failed to raise to a position of the utmost importance in the public mind , the fact that the human conscience is the very rock-bottom foundation on which civilisation rests . |
| 8 | But he 'd managed to get to a phone near the toilets in the operations centre . |
| 9 | Pemberton 's defiance should have helped United to a point , which was the least they deserved . |
| 10 | Thanksgiving for deliverance from the plague could then have become attached to a festival already in existence . |
| 11 | HOUSE prices appear to have steadied according to a survey by Britain 's biggest building society . |
| 12 | They had decided to move to an apartment opposite Central Park because Karina had been molested in Washington Square Park . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've got to go to a Fatherhood Class , ’ he told Jane gloomily . |
| 14 | I 've got to go to a meeting . |
| 15 | some stage you 've got to say to a kid |
| 16 | A door she had thought led to a cupboard opened , and Roman came in . |
| 17 | Even to get this much he had had to agree to a number of statutes which he construed as so prejudicial that he vowed to repeal them as soon as possible . |
| 18 | You 've had to go to a specialist engineer in support of your case and to argue your case , and you 're still arguing over it . |
| 19 | You have to come to a conclusion and Professor er described how we 've had to come to a conclusion . |
| 20 | The neurologist diagnosed a possible brain haemorrhage , and had Rose admitted to a specialist hospital in London . |
| 21 | Sal wrote back to let him know how thankful she was he was still alive and went on to say that she had become engaged to a pilot from Canada . |
| 22 | Accordingly , article 119 did not apply to the Employment Secretary 's liability to make section 106 payments , and an employee who had become entitled to a state pension and was then dismissed for redundancy was not entitled to a payment from the Employment Secretary under section 106 . |
| 23 | Hangings were henceforth carried out behind prison walls ; the public spectacle which executions had provided came to an end . |
| 24 | The Likud government had refused to agree to a freeze on settlement construction and attempts to negotiate a compromise agreement failed [ see p. 38787 ] . |
| 25 | The CDU had wanted to change to a system of simple majority votes in constituencies , a move which would prevent the National Democrats winning seats but which would also destroy the FDP . |
| 26 | Sunderland , who travel to Blackburn on Wednesday night for their penultimate game of the season , had hoped to come to a compromise arrangement which would have enabled them to use Rogan against Swindon and then let him travel to Belfast before tomorrow night 's game . |
| 27 | All the walls in this room had grained wainscoting to a height of three feet . |
| 28 | The bus driver had given chase , had managed to signal to a police car and the chase had gone on through Kirkintilloch and Milton of Campsie before Cook lost control in Birdston Road . |
| 29 | Although WG and AY had failed to come to an agreement before the trial began , a settlement was reached after more than two weeks of opening arguments . |
| 30 | At the same time you may have reached the stage when your children are now independent , your mortgage is substantially paid off and you have stopped subscribing to a life assurance policy . |