Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now I had come face to face with her four days after she stood before the House of Commons and declared that there were too many hospital beds in London , and that as a result , St Bartholomew 's Hospital , along with numerous others great and small , would have to close , merge or become emasculated . |
| 2 | I have put pen to paper sparingly , aware that pictures speak louder than words . |
| 3 | Mr Robin Cook MP , objected to Lord Diplock 's suitability on the ground that he had been chairman of the Security Commission since 1971 , and had not formerly indicated any understanding of the concern for civil liberties and privacy which had given rise to public and press anxiety about the procedures of the security services . |
| 4 | Aylwin had been leader of the Christian Democratic Party in 1973 , when it had joined in calling on the military to intervene , but he now acknowledged that all political forces which had preferred confrontation to dialogue at that time , were responsible for creating the conditions in which human rights violations eventually took place . |
| 5 | Among the organizations which had put pen to paper were the Farmers Union of Wales , the Somerset Community Health Council and the regional Youth Hostels Association . |
| 6 | Christopher Napier and Christopher Noke take arguments over share premiums , share premium accounts , merger accounting and pre-acquisition profits as an example of the issues which have given rise to controversy . |
| 7 | Its contents are classified into chapters on spelling and pronunciation , locative names ( from English , French and other continental languages ) , surnames of relationship , those from native and other personal names , from offices held or occupations followed , compound names and nicknames of all kinds , oaths , colloquial expressions and phrases which have given rise to family names . |
| 8 | Soon I shall start snarling at visitors and grubbing for nourishment in the fields , simply because I can not bear to think of myself in the same category as Betty , and she has laid claim to humanity . |
| 9 | I see here you er say you 've done door to door canvassing |
| 10 | The Forest Race Course and Queens they 've all got plenty of space while in the centre of Mansfield you 've got room to pork park even at the Walkden Street car park . |
| 11 | ( They would marry two years later , some months after she had given birth to twin boys . |
| 12 | At work , given that , despite her de glamorisation , she had had cause to cold-shoulder one Lothario from Purchasing and another from Sales who had been fresh beyond what she thought acceptable , she was quite contented with her lot . |
| 13 | The memory of the terrible moment she had come face to face with Salt rolled over her . |
| 14 | Does the Secretary of State intend to thank those who have given service to Queen and country by making them not only jobless , but homeless ? |
| 15 | This is naturally most relevant in the case of employees whose skills have been overtaken by changing business patterns and the increasing use of new technology and who have fallen victim to redundancy or reorganisation plans . |
| 16 | She 's got permission to film Doctor Zhivago — is n't that incredible , darling ? |
| 17 | Now , coiled here , she thought it was not Phoebe 's fault , it was the dullness of being an adult ; it was the natural flavour of the world once one had said goodbye to childhood . |
| 18 | We had said goodbye to GCSE options and we were on course . |
| 19 | Like Hamlet , they had come face to face with its essential horror and absurdity . |
| 20 | The Wedding Present violently oppose most rock 'n' roll ethos , but perhaps one of the few areas where they have shown loyalty to tradition has been their gluttonous appetite for live work . |
| 21 | It means they have improved access to information on what holidays sell best and what the customer wants . |
| 22 | Lawrence 's ‘ emotional dislocation of a ‘ mothercomplex ’ , discussed by Murry , was picked up by Eliot in 1931 , shortly after he had resisted return to childhood at the end of Ash-Wednesday ; in the same year he analysed Coriolanus 's infantilism and his ‘ Mother mother ’ . |
| 23 | The poor fellow thought he had come face to face with an alien . |
| 24 | On his way home , he had come face to face with the two youths with whom he had argued earlier . |
| 25 | Then , after that humiliation , he had added insult to injury by saying she 'd be perfectly safe with him ! |
| 26 | Analyses of a number of them have drawn attention to government constraints on investment through holding down prices [ Ashworth , 1986 ] , imposing unfavourable borrowing terms and , in some cases , outright refusal to sanction borrowing [ Pryke , 1981 ] . |