Example sentences of "[conj] have [adv] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Whatever I 've done or have n't done to Julius , it 's really none of your business , is it ?
2 But there is another type of risk affecting corporate bonds that has recently come to prominence and is known as event risk ( or restructuring risk ) .
3 But this is the most flattering thing that has ever happened to Howard !
4 Information that has now come to light about the political gulags and the Gestapo tactics of the secret police has certainly done much to underline the totalitarian essences of even the ‘ soft ’ regimes .
5 For instance , America is the only country that has seriously attempted to measure children 's drama .
6 These divisions were based around the old tribal territories to some extent , but absorbed many of the smaller tribes and lands that had previously belonged to tribes hostile to the Unberogens .
7 Drunk one day , driving her on his Harley , he slammed into a house that had once belonged to Jack London .
8 Twenty-odd years ago Michael Stewart owned a Facel Vega that had once belonged to Ringo Starr .
9 That round , soft face with its clear blue eyes and straight nose , those small , pretty hands , the plump frame swathed in shawls , all that had actually gone to Afghanistan 60 years ago , had taken part in the adventure that had provided the myth and the burden of Alexandra 's childhood .
10 I can excuse them for not knowing all the facts that have now come to light but I can not forgive them or the government for failing to steer the health of the nation .
11 Do not fall , either , for the argument that America must have the oil underneath the refuge to reduce its dependence on foreign oil — at a time when , despite the greenhouse effect , the American government has all but abandoned incentives for energy efficiency and has repeatedly bowed to Detroit 's absurd demand that it relax its drive for fuel-efficient car engines .
12 The Freshman Consultancy opened in January 1991 in offices near London 's Euston station and has since moved to Chamber Street in E1 near Tower Hill .
13 That sum was the Bundesliga transfer record as recently as last season and has only risen to £3.3m since Mattheus Sammer left Italy for Borussia Dortmund .
14 the pair were spending a season in New Zealand at the invitation of McIntosh 's elder brother , Shane , who had himself played for Pontypridd and has recently returned to Britain to play for West of Scotland .
15 The Left , like most people in Britain , had been brought up to regard Britain as a world power and had not adjusted to Britain 's real weakness .
16 They might not dare to admit it , but they did n't like the changes they saw around them ; they enjoyed television 's recreations of more confident times , when they had had a country to be proud of , when people had reached maturity at forty and had not pandered to youth .
17 He went sick in September and had not returned to work since .
18 He went sick in September and had not returned to work since .
19 Before the War , he had visited Europe , worked in the kitchen of a London hotel , and had then gone to Moscow .
20 She had cleared for Antwerp , where she spent a couple of days , and had then gone to West Africa , calling at several ports before returning to Antwerp .
21 Mrs Knelle 's boy had attended a similar boarding school to the Cistercian college , and had then gone to Maynooth , a prestigious Dublin seminary for priests .
22 She had embraced Simon , patting his face and exclaiming over his bruised eye , and had then flown to Isabel , taking her in her arms and weeping over her enough , so her husband had said , to raise the level of the lake .
23 The only clue so far discovered of any value to a possible dating of his return is the fact that , according to Bursali Mehmed Tahir , there exists a copy of one of his most famous works , the written in his own hand , presented to Mehmed II , and dated 878/1473–4 it would not thus be unreasonable to suppose that Molla Husrev wrote the copy especially for Mehmed II , this in turn suggesting that by 878 Molla Husrev had made up his quarrel with the sultan and had perhaps returned to Istanbul .
24 But Premier League champions Manchester United and double cup-winners Arsenal are also in the hunt and have both spoken to Keane , even though he has already agreed personal terms on a lucrative four-year contract offered by Blackburn manager Kenny Dalglish .
25 She praised Nigel and Becky Hobday , who were treasurer and membership secretary respectively , and have now moved to Romsey , for their contribution to the association .
26 We pledged ( and have now paid to RSNC ) £5,000 .
27 603 went to Philadelphia for the American Bi-Centennial celebrations in 1976 , but has since returned to San Francisco .
28 Pollitt ( 1990 ) argues that this approach was largely process-oriented but has recently shifted to outcomes ( surgical mortality rates , unplanned readmissions , prevalence of cross infections ) reflecting the demands of more powerful purchasing organisations and litigious consumers .
29 But having politely listened to Mrs Thatcher 's remarks and having promised to pay due attention to Whitehall 's alternative strategy , the summit made it clear that their strategy for monetary union would broadly follow the blueprint laid down .
30 Alyson , of Hazel Court , Middlesbrough , said she had had minor illnesses , but had always gone to school .
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