Example sentences of "[coord] have [verb] [pron] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To understand this point one has to ask how the family has been internally regulated , given that law has claimed no hortatory function over family behaviour and has limited itself to dispute-resolution when things go wrong . |
| 2 | ‘ Since the board has elected as a matter of practice not to give reasons , and has given none to Mr. Cunningham , it has been bound by its own logic not to attempt to justify for the benefit of the court the figure awarded . |
| 3 | Marie told him about Mr Bishop being drunk and getting himself drowned ; about Gazzer finding Madge wandering along the prom and having to take her to Mr Bishop 's brother because she was n't responsible for herself . |
| 4 | Rural Britain had failed to hold onto its own natural increase , and had lost it to migration . |
| 5 | When nylon underwear first became popular I produced similar fireworks and had to earth myself to radiators when nobody was looking . |
| 6 | Dameta had taken one look at her heated countenance when she 'd emerged from the pleasance , and had ordered her to bed , muttering about fevers and the carelessness of wandering about in gardens without a mantle . |
| 7 | She had shown him with pride to both her mother and grandmother and had carried him to bed more deeply satisfied than at any time since she had been weaned from Phoebe 's now forgotten breasts . |
| 8 | ‘ Go and put on something beautiful , ’ he said at seven , after he had had two overt vodkas , and poured , as was his habit , a single , large , secret one , and had taken her to bed . |
| 9 | Earlier , Chamorro had resisted pressure to dismiss Ortega after the army admitted on Jan. 2 that four of its officers had stolen 28 Soviet-made anti-aircraft missiles from army stockpiles in October and had shipped them to guerrillas in El Salvador . |
| 10 | Lucille had seen the Prince 's arrival and hasty departure , and had resigned herself to Sharpe 's absence . |
| 11 | A young man from Canada was on holiday in Scotland , ( I understand he was living with an aunt , locally ) , and had attached himself to Sam . |
| 12 | In a letter of 17 August 1921 to his wife he writes that ‘ I have had the first estimates for dolls ' house furniture : 13 State frames — £50 , and have sent it to Mrs Marshall Field . |
| 13 | We have therefore developed a computer based technique for the quantification of bowel uptake and have applied it to images of the distribution of Tc-99m HMPAO lavelled leucocytes . |
| 14 | But to have gone himself to Verdun at this hour would have demolished at a stroke the legend of imperturbability , upon which so much had been built , and the crash would have been deafening . |