Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For her latest exhibition , Oulton has gone even further to distance herself from Old Master traditions and concepts of Englishness . |
| 2 | With limited resources , manager Jim Jefferies has done remarkably well to keep Falkirk in the big league . |
| 3 | In Jordan , where the authorities hope the experiment in democracy will become a model for other Arab states , King Hussein has opted so far to draw the fundamentalists into the government . |
| 4 | Milan had asked both not to play . |
| 5 | For once the lawyer had concluded his business , having called upon both his own groom and Mrs Elswick to witness the document he had drawn up , and had been seen off the premises , Theda had gone back upstairs to find her employer in a state of near-collapse . |
| 6 | Recognising these benefits for its infrastructure , Singapore has set out actively to woo foreign service firms . |
| 7 | If Rune had set out deliberately to enrage her he could n't have chosen a better way . |
| 8 | Jessamy had promised faithfully not to open them until the morning of her birthday , and she had kept her promise . |
| 9 | Miliutin had begun not only to reduce expenditure , but also to introduce military personnel to the spirit of post-emancipation society . |
| 10 | Irony in Estella 's true background after Pip has tried so hard to distance himself from the lower classes and she turns out to have come from them . |
| 11 | Angelina had worried how best to approach Mr Pipkin tactfully , but Oliver had no such social qualms . |
| 12 | Although no clear winner emerged from the debate , most commentators believed that Clinton had performed well enough to consolidate his position as the leading contender . |
| 13 | The template packages will ship in the second half of the year , once Microsoft has worked out how to price them . |
| 14 | Budding classicists amongst you will quickly realise that Intel has managed rather clumsily to match a Greek prefix to a Latin suffix . |
| 15 | Beddington had lived long enough to know that very few people were quite what the public considered them . |
| 16 | By the time I reappeared , Lisabeth had cheered up enough to smile weakly , having adopted the invalid-on-the-sickbed routine . |
| 17 | He said afterwards that he had understood Terry had come out just to allow him to reach his goal , but it was an unfortunate end to a splendid innings , which made him the first English batsman since Barrington in 1967 to score three consecutive centuries in a series . |
| 18 | Stephanie had broken off breathlessly to announce this in English to Anneliese , adding with a determined glitter of hostility in her eyes , ‘ What time does your flight go tomorrow , Signorina Hastings ? ’ |
| 19 | Former Ulster half-backs Ashley Armstrong and Annsley Harrison have teamed up again to renew their dalliance with the game they grew up with back at Methodist College . |