Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [noun] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far three critics have attempted this comparison ( with varying statistics ) , but none of them has done justice to the intensity and range of Shakespeare 's pronouns . |
| 2 | When the Malay leaders of Malaysia assert that the Malays are ‘ bumiputras ’ , sons of the soil , and therefore to be accorded privileges as against the Chinese and Indian Malaysians , only the unkind would point out that the Malays were also immigrants from an earlier period , and that no-one has paid attention to the claims of the real indigenous peoples , the Dayak and other tribes of the forestland . |
| 3 | I 'd sent Mum to the acupuncturist to try and give her some energy , and Jack and I were in the house when we heard a terrible thud . |
| 4 | ‘ Because , three months ago , Heather telephoned me and asked if I 'd taken Clare to the Skein of Geese a couple of weeks before her death . |
| 5 | However , even if I 'd had access to the book at the time — he gave a signed copy to Mrs Goreng when he left and another to the American woman journalist , which I accounted a waste-it would not have been wise to argue . |
| 6 | Now , I 'd mentioned Benjamin to the Ralembergs but told them nothing about his near kinsman , the great cardinal . |
| 7 | Will I have to take children to the Clinic ? |
| 8 | Came the sad morning when I had to say goodbye to the crimson walls , white statues , giant mirrors and piped music of O'Brien 's Hotel . |
| 9 | I had sent kidneys to the laboratory for lead estimation with negative result ; like their owner , I was flummoxed . |
| 10 | I had to take Tony to the casualty on Saturday ? |
| 11 | Claire said : ‘ I had to take Rachel to the doctor 's because she was so poorly . |
| 12 | Congress will recall that over the years I 've made references to the close working relationship , which was developing between G M B and our German colleagues . |
| 13 | I 've taken suspects to the police station when I have n't been able to break them down , and I 've told my inspector exactly what 's happened , he 's got the whole picture and then he 's closed the door and called the man in , closed the door . |
| 14 | As Mappin says , ‘ … someone had to take tennis to the public … ’ |
| 15 | In other words , someone had set fire to the dacha , and the things had been stolen from it before the fire had started . |
| 16 | And then I have to set fire to the bottom bit . |
| 17 | Then he said to me in English , ‘ I have written answers to the two questions you sent me , ’ and opened the file . |
| 18 | With those introductory remarks , I hope that I have drawn attention to the firsts that we celebrate in this debate , but although those matters are important , matters of far greater importance form the substance of our debate . |
| 19 | I have drawn attention to the immense quantity , the rich variety , the problems posed by its retention , the difficulties with its analysis , and the opportunities that might be offered to future historians by contemporary electronic information resources . |
| 20 | I am not looking for , or expecting , sympathy , but as I have selflessly ridden through the valley of the Multivite Vegeburger/Singletons Valve Replacement League Division Three , I have taken abuse to the left of me and phlegm to the right . |
| 21 | The evidence I have reviewed points to the possibility that poor-quality or transmission-style teaching arises in some subject teaching , not because that subject is being taught by poorly qualified generalists , but by other specialists whose commitments lie elsewhere and whose preferred pedagogical approaches are seen as incompatible with those required in subject areas other than their own . |
| 22 | I have to have regard to the fact that there is another statement after this one and that there is such pressure on the debate on the Gracious Speech that I shall have to impose a 10-minute limit on speeches . |
| 23 | The response was to start an unbeaten run of 19 games which has swept Wigan to the verge of a third consecutive double or , as John Monie , their coach , put it , ‘ halfway towards another successful season ’ . |
| 24 | Wall Street has been hitting new peaks this week too , which has given support to the London market ( and even Japan 's Nikkei index , in a typically erratic period , has gained nearly 800 points while London added its 245 ) but London has real strengths of its own . |
| 25 | But the Banbury environmental research group which has given evidence to the select committee on energy over Harwell says the reasons for the shut-down are more complicated . |
| 26 | It is in this form that I would express the challenge of the social and medical revolution which has given rise to the modern problem of old age . |
| 27 | The police and the Army were caught up in a public order crisis which continues to plague us and which has given rise to the most damaging terrorist campaign . |
| 28 | Position not being a quality , and sensations not being in parts of the body as pins , wounds and broken bones are in parts of the body , it would seem that the only way in which a part of the body can enter into one 's experience of a pain is as the apparent place of the prick , scratch , cut , or whatever it may be , which has given rise to the sensation . |
| 29 | At no time did the defendants tell the plaintiff of Mr. Perot 's proposed purchase of Vertigo and it is this fact which has given rise to the present litigation . |
| 30 | The most probable outcome of all class struggles , according to this view , is civil war ; and it is the use of the term ‘ revolution ’ in this context by many Marxists , and by other radical thinkers , which has given rise to the close association in modern thought between the ideas of revolution and armed conflict . |