Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] have [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In both cases the creditor had left it to the debtor husband to deal with the surety , his wife , and had done nothing to satisfy itself that she understood what she was doing or to protect her from abuse by the debtor of the influence and reliance that would be likely to be present . |
| 2 | She suspected that the Bishop and the Archdeacon had invited her to the meeting more to enlist her help as a sleuth than as a source of information of a kind which might be to them , in any case , unwelcome . |
| 3 | She was smiling again , as if all the unpleasantness in the kitchen had meant nothing to her . |
| 4 | This was utter nonsense from a communist point of view and neither Ceauşescu nor Brezhnev had any intention of abiding by the terms of the Helsinki agreement , but its value to them lay in its public announcement to the peoples of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union that the West had abandoned them to their fate . |
| 5 | As will gradually become evident , the AEC has proven itself to be an unambiguous success . |
| 6 | He thought it was maybe just er the driver had taken someone to the church was waiting to go back for them . |
| 7 | I have seen a kingfisher here and a survey of the pond has shown it to be very important for invertebrates as well as amphibians . |
| 8 | I said when I was told the Echo had seconded me to a new day job , a comic career move . |
| 9 | I said when I was told the Echo had seconded me to a new day job , a comic career move . |
| 10 | I know , because Eliot told me : he also disclosed , what he usually kept to himself , that after the poet had drunk himself to death , and hearing that his widow was in difficulties , he had provided liberal help , though whether she was aware of the fact I do not know . |
| 11 | A criticism made by those in both parties who were opposed to the appointment was that on Mr Harold Macmillan 's prompting the Queen had allowed herself to be urged prematurely into a decision without having at her disposal all the available evidence about feeling in the Conservative Party . |
| 12 | She 's bitterley disappointed that the council has sold it to a local businessman who wants to use the premises to repair binoculars . |
| 13 | Stephen Thomas says the ordeal has driven him to the brink of suicide . |
| 14 | It was then contended that because the name , the signature as the judge had held it to be , had been written at the top of the document before the dispositive contents had been written , it could not have been intended ‘ to give effect to ’ the dispositive contents . |
| 15 | The Judge has sentenced them to be detained at Her Majesty 's pleasure for ’ very very many years ’ . |
| 16 | Disproportionately she had longed , in the interminable wastes of adolescence , in the grey and monotonous steppes , and some of the longing had attached itself to this night , this one night of the year , when others ( she knew from school friends , from the radio , from novels ) , when others went to parties and celebrated whatever was about to be . |
| 17 | The institute has committed itself to continuing to offer practical help and communication expertise as long as it is needed in the recovery process . |
| 18 | At various points in his career , he played wonderful jazz , but by the time these four pieces — OM , Kulu Se Mama , Selflessness , and Ascension — were made in 1965 his relentless search for The Truth had brought him to the most uncompromising of unstructured freedom . |
| 19 | How last year the crop had meant nothing to him at all ; how , without understanding , he had walked about the harbour and warehouses of Episkopi , and the misuse of the Order 's cargo of sugar had been simply a matter noted and used as a playing-counter . |
| 20 | It is therefore difficult for him to appreciate the general view of the Service , that , on his return … he must re-establish his professional standing , even though a few years earlier the Service had sent him to University because he had proved himself to be a good , practical policeman . |
| 21 | ‘ I would ask you to stay longer , but His Majesty the King has invited me to a masque at Richmond . ’ |
| 22 | By the time the taxi had delivered them to the restaurant Fabia was feeling on more of an even keel . |
| 23 | The observer has to submit himself to the way things are . |
| 24 | The impact had caused it to buck like a frightened horse . |
| 25 | The Colonel had summoned him to Cancun for the meeting at the Rena Victoria Hotel . |
| 26 | But the archaeologists ' obsession with the past had blinded them to the real cause of the lamentations they witnessed along the river . |
| 27 | The Law Commission proposing the offence had confined it to situations where the alarm or distress experienced was " substantial " but this requirement was dropped from the Act itself . |
| 28 | It says that the money which it was prepared to commit to training will not meet the pleas of the training and enterprise councils , which are struggling to deliver the training guarantees which the Government have committed them to providing , and which can not go beyond the delivery of that guarantee to extend training opportunities in a serious or significant way . |
| 29 | What the procedure does not permit is an exploration of alternative approaches , an understanding of the views of outside groups ( unless they think it worth briefing MPs ) and there is no scope for public opinion to form and react before the government has committed itself to a definite approach to the problem . |
| 30 | You may know that the Government has committed itself to producing a National Sustainability Plan by the end of this year , for submission to the United Nations Sustainable Development Commission . |