Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] have [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Westfields , Virginia-based Genicom Corp reports that Dell Computer Corp has chosen it to be Dell 's preferred printer provider : financial terms were not released , but Genicom said the partnership is expected to be a multimillion dollar opportunity for both companies . |
| 2 | The Legal Aid Board has said itself to be impressed with the contribution of law centres to the provision of legal services in the areas they serve . |
| 3 | Once again , Steffi Graf has shown herself to be the best player in the world by far — in more than one sense . |
| 4 | That had been twelve years ago , just one year after the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council had promoted him to Director at the Atomic Energy Commission . |
| 5 | After he had slept in the same sheets for six months Nails had taken them to the launderette , and now he had discovered a few things like that , which helped , which was more than his dad ever had . |
| 6 | He got there in 1912 only to find Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten him to it . |
| 7 | Tests carried out by Australia 's CSIRO research body has shown it to be effective against over 30 pests ranging from beetles to nematodes . |
| 8 | The initiative was taken by Helen Crawfurd , a militant suffragette and socialist whose involvement in the 1915 Glasgow Rent Strike had awakened her to the possibilities of resistance by working-class women . |
| 9 | MODEL David Wood has proved himself to be the brave face of '93 by winning a top modelling event — just after a successful fight against cancer . |
| 10 | I have some sheet music which belonged to my mother , unless the mice and rats at Low Birk Hatt have chewed it to bits . |
| 11 | Her sister Jane had asked her to be chief bridesmaid at her wedding to Robert Fellowes , the son-of the Queen 's land agent at Sandringham and now her private secretary , which was held in the Guards Chapel in April 1978 . |
| 12 | A stone age management opportunity has revealed itself to the Directors of AIB Bank plc in Britain . |
| 13 | Frank Spencer had endeared himself to so many people that Crawford 's wish to leave the character behind was tempered by the pleasure it had clearly brought . |
| 14 | After his long , slow climb Stoneley had found himself to be a novice at office in-fighting , some examples of which could make the brutal intentions of a common criminal seem almost harmless . |
| 15 | Likewise in archaeology AMS has enabled us to date samples as minute as individual seeds , which can tell us a great deal about the origins of agriculture and the domestication of cereals . |
| 16 | Essentially the court is concerned whether the decision-making body has addressed itself to all relevant factors . |
| 17 | While his fellow students were still schoolboys , John was leading a raffish private life , and described how a friend from South Africa had taken him to ‘ some Queer pubs which are too fantastic and revolting to be true . |
| 18 | And then , unexpectedly , she was assailed by the strangest feeling that a greater force than Aunt Bertha had sent her to this place . |
| 19 | Elsewhere , Frank Kermode has applied it to the fictions of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark ( ‘ no matter what the characters say they all speak in some version of her voice ’ ) , while linking it with Bakhtin 's distinction , well-known now both in Russia and in the West , between the ‘ monologic ’ and the ‘ dialogic ’ imagination . |
| 20 | Some like the Sandvik Sandplate have introduced me to products that I might not have otherwise tried . |
| 21 | For a moment she could n't think what he meant , then she remembered with dismay that she 'd already asked him to join her and Elaine and a few of the island friends they 'd made on the new power-boat Stephen had treated them to as the hotel neared completion . |
| 22 | Gambling was n't exactly the purpose for which Sister Beatrice had sent her to Stone Towers , but she shrugged off her misgivings . |
| 23 | We are not just talking power-dressing for women ; Armani makes men look even better than the fairer sex in a way that 's so thoroughly macho it 's no wonder the world 's aggro merchants have taken him to their hearts as eagerly as Hollywood 's glitterati . |
| 24 | And she also noticed straightaway that the open fire feeding an oven to one side and a water boiler to the other was very like the one Sister Cecilia had introduced her to . |
| 25 | The awful truth of Penny 's childhood and young womanhood is that the abuse never ended — and someone with the right counselling skills has to help her to unburden herself . |
| 26 | The average East German was unable to spend his holiday at the Black Sea , as the government-led tourist industry had allocated it to Westerners . |
| 27 | A war veteran had sold it to him ; part of the booty plundered from some Boer farmhouse . |
| 28 | The widow 's eye make-up had transferred itself to Marilyn Thompson 's handkerchief . |
| 29 | ‘ Mr Bradburn has shown himself to be a fine teacher and a popular colleague . ’ |
| 30 | Firstly , Martin Coleman from High Wycombe has taken me to task for not including a power on/off switch in the circuit of Fig. 4 ( April ‘ 92 ) . |