Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] have [adv] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | To obtain a correct view of the ulcer and stigmata of recent bleeding , the lesions were gently washed to remove blood that had not adhered to the lesions . |
| 2 | To help the customer select the ‘ right ’ style , the company constantly updates its stock and has recently added to its existing ranges Harlequin , Interior Selection , Today 's Interiors , Jab , Romo , Craig and Rose and Brian Yates makes . |
| 3 | They sat at a corner table , a slab of mahogany on an iron base that had once belonged to a Singer sewing machine . |
| 4 | But Mark had now become absorbed in an idea for a sermon that had suddenly come to him . |
| 5 | Apart from these two central institutions of the court , the Chamber and the Household-below-Stairs , there were several offices , known later as ‘ the standing offices ’ , which had once been a part of the royal Household and had now moved to its fringes . |
| 6 | The worst response would be the sort that has already begun to be hinted at for ICI : protecting itself through a tangle of joint ventures . |
| 7 | That same air of confidence that has ultimately come to nothing but dust pervades the area of the Old Gang Smelting Mills and the workings and hushes roundabout . |
| 8 | In a population that has already come to be dominated by Always Defect , no other strategy does better . |
| 9 | I have had only the highest regard for Amnesty and have never written to you like this before . |
| 10 | He had never been close to his son , Mark 's father , but had doted on his grandson and had often talked to him of the old Russia . |
| 11 | Precise details of what has been achieved by the liaison remain a closely guarded secret but it has involved developing new methods of using medicinal drugs in the body and has already led to a contract with a major pharmaceutical company . |
| 12 | Off we went the next day and had nearly got to the shop when Dad spotted a relief officer . |
| 13 | They had remained wrapped in their own separate thoughts ever since leaving the hunting camp earlier in the day and had barely spoken to one another . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There 's one other area that 's just sprung to me about the trainee and their actual ability . |
| 16 | Then she had started on a career that had always appealed to her : in the world of antiques . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She was a plump young nome who wore trousers and was good at engineering and had actually volunteered to be a guard instead of staying at home learning how to cook ; things were really changing in the quarry . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | We work more or less in the same area but had n't talked to one another for a long time . |
| 22 | Morton was on the point of killing the Dragoon when the soldier begged for quarter , adding that he had been forced into the army and had not wanted to be a soldier . |
| 23 | ‘ That is an aspect that had not occurred to me , ’ Briant said , and the angry color that had blotched his narrow cheeks receded . |
| 24 | The little horse was the most extraordinary thing that had ever happened to him in all his life , appearing like that in the torchlight and looking at him even before it was wholly born , as if to say , ‘ Hi , mate . ’ |
| 25 | This was the strangest thing that had ever happened to her ; he had hurt her at the beginning , but now that was gone . |
| 26 | Best thing that had ever happened to him , Penny . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ It was the worst thing that 's ever happened to me in my whole life . |
| 28 | This is the most embarrassing thing that 's ever happened to me . |
| 29 | Not fool enough to stand aside and watch the best thing that 's ever happened to me wither away because I 'm too scared to let it put down roots . |
| 30 | This is the most important thing that 's ever happened to me in my life — ’ |