Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Unsure of whether she does owe him an explanation , of how much of her perspective she can get across in a conversation , and unwilling to let go of the London Kate who has broken through to the surface , she is ashamed of her suspicions of his reasons for asking her back to his place and agrees .
2 He says he 's feeling better but he has to go back to the hospice .
3 Both were successful in their task , Phyllisia no longer has to go back to the West Indies and Celie was reunited with all her family .
4 The twentieth-century preference for ‘ the colloquial ’ in poetry may well be a temporary phenomenon ; Donald Davie 's Purity of Diction in English Verse ( 1952 ) , together with his admiration for the late Augustans , represent one attempt to revive an interest in the use of a ‘ civilized ’ diction ; it is interesting that he has to go back to the age before Wordsworth .
5 For comparison , one really has to go back to the Renaissance , to someone like Giovanni Bellini , who travelled an enormous territory ; even to Giotto , the artist who Matisse said was the peak of his aspiration .
6 In the meantime he has to go back to the town on further business , but first his horse needs shoeing , his cart needs repairing and he needs food and shelter .
7 ‘ We 've only got her for five years , then she has to go back to the Foundling Hospital . ’
8 He is n't allowed to play football and has to go back to the hospital for treatment .
9 One only has to see Back to the Future to realize what problems could arise .
10 He calls Howard as soon as he arrives — but Howard has flown out to the Bahamas , for a conference with Bill Mishkin , who is stopping over on his way to Caracas .
11 President Berisha , however , has given in to the nationalists over the question of property restitution .
12 The rum market in Venezuela is undergoing a difficult period of transition , but Pampero 's performance has responded well to the relaunch .
13 The Scottish economy has responded vigorously to the policies we have introduced to liberate enterprise , and many more people are now saving , investing and owning their homes .
14 I think it 's more likely to happen on the third or fourth flight , once the bird has caught on to the idea of freedom , which is why it 's important to keep it reasonably hungry .
15 The eye has to jump ahead to the source marker , or register it peripherally , and link it correctly to the preceding text .
16 Once he has come reasonably to the conclusion that this will happen , the question whether his decision to issue the particular instructions that he gave was a reasonable one in the circumstances is subject to a further test of reasonableness .
17 The second psychoanalytic message that has come through to the public is its preoccupation with sex .
18 ‘ Two other factors will make us a better team this season — Keith Finlay has come back to the club from North Fermanagh and that has stiffened our batting while Tony Johnson from Barbados is a superb all rounder . ’
19 Two points away from winning the league flag , Christmas has come early to the Perth fans ; ensconced in a new all-seater stadium , they are visiting an Ayr team under Ally McLeod 's managerial direction .
20 However , the club has come close to the brink , surviving winding up orders .
21 These points are being forgotten at the very time that they have become most pressing — for the transition from communism in Russia and Eastern Europe has added greatly to the demands that are being placed on western aid budgets .
22 Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house
23 Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house
24 has to come up to the house to talk to him and erm like he sort of opens the door and just shuts it in his face cos he finds out the other bloke 's a prince and he 's just standing there in the rain .
25 Do n't put yourself in a situation where the treasurer has to come back to the committee to argue over every last penny .
26 The gradual assimilation of minority nationalities , moreover , has operated less to the advantage of the Russian population as such than to the advantage of the larger nationalities in general , Russians included .
27 Baton Rouge , Louisiana-based Fifth Generation Systems , a little spitfire in the MS-DOS world , has moved on to the Unix scene with its first Unix product , Fastback Plus Unix , a $345 backup and restore utility for Intel Corp 80386 and 80486 machines running UnixWare , Interactive , SCO Unix , System V.3/V.4 and Consensys V.4.2 .
28 That section of the middle class which includes shopkeepers , foremen , and the small and self-employed businessmen — the petit bourgeois — has turned strongly to the party since she became leader .
29 The discussion above has related mainly to the services under the management of health authorities .
30 ‘ This is only the second time Derry has got through to the final in 35 years , so tickets this year are like gold dust , ’ he said .
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