Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had got as far as pulling out her suitcase , which looked scruffier than ever now that her eyes had accustomed themselves to the comfortable luxury of Luke Hunter 's flat , and laying it open on the bed before something inside her rebelled . |
| 2 | Harry went slowly and cautiously through the gully , feeling his way at every step until his eyes had accustomed themselves to the darkness , and could judge distances and distinguish the shapes of the weathered planes of rock that leaned over him . |
| 3 | Her parents had sent her to the convent , and she begged them to let her become a Catholic after she 'd been there only a year . |
| 4 | Her parents had taken her to the doctor because of breathing problems and after being sent to hospital it was discovered L had extensive bruising across the buttocks . |
| 5 | After he had slept in the same sheets for six months Nails had taken them to the launderette , and now he had discovered a few things like that , which helped , which was more than his dad ever had . |
| 6 | Her footsteps had taken her to the car park — how , she could n't remember . |
| 7 | The commencement power er will not be put into effect by the Home Secretary until he knows that the other countries have accommodated themselves to the new arrangements . |
| 8 | Those amiable but blatantly incompetent buffoons have brought me to the wrong fucking airport ! |
| 9 | Quick wit and cleverness at school had shifted him quickly from his roots in the Belfast underclass , and his natural proclivities had led him to the theatre set , a wee bit of acting and extra-work from time to time , usually as a gunman or a thug and once , memorably , as a rather well-fed hungerstriker . |
| 10 | Over the past year the bank has managed to raise its provisions from 30% to 50% of its loans to poor countries while rivals have hiked theirs to the 70% level . |
| 11 | Each of these three processes has contributed something to the changing broadcasting scene . |
| 12 | The trend indicates that as the date for reauthorisation approaches , liberals have resigned themselves to the fact the NEA chairmanship is not a rostrum for ethics , but a political post . |
| 13 | The absence of any coherent and agreed philosophy for the media in many African countries is a matter which is of obvious concern to many of that continent 's politicians as well as its media professionals , and a number of African leaders have addressed themselves to the problem . |
| 14 | She then returned to full-time medical work , and now her religious , political and medical commitments have led her to the position of Consultant in Public Health Medicine for Central Birmingham Health Authority . |
| 15 | According to Major-General John Strawson 's A History of the S.A.S. Regiment , its soldiers had to get themselves to the target ‘ by any means from submarine to caique ’ . |
| 16 | The railways had done it to the canals and now it was to happen in turn to the railways . |
| 17 | The dots have brought us to the bottom of a page — an appropriate point , since we have also , surely , reached the nadir of these proceedings , perhaps of all proceedings in the whole history of the modern Civil Service . |
| 18 | Others have compared it to the sensitivity of the medium and the magnetism of the hypnotist . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ A conical peak impaling heaven ’ is how George Borrow described it , while others have likened it to the Matterhorn . |
| 20 | So far only a small number of women have made it to the top . |
| 21 | Since its inception in 19894 , women have made it to the shortlist , but no further . |
| 22 | Several clubs have made it to the quarter final , but all have faltered , the most notable being Darlington , when they lost by a single goal to HFS Loans League side Leek Town two years ago . |
| 23 | Employers and , indeed , trade unions have committed themselves to the CBI 's testing and challenging education and training targets . |