Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Move over Wilf NOT a lot of people might know this , but a Newcastle United player has come closer to an Olympic medal than poor old wobbling Wilf O'Reilly . |
| 2 | ( He has come closest to an antipathetic character as the ex-con in Straight Time , and as a crook in Family Business , two of his biggest commercial failures . ) |
| 3 | ‘ The money I get for the scrap is paid into the Finance Department , and when the fund has built up to a worthwhile sum I 'll be calling for suggestions for a local charity to whom we can donate the cash . ’ |
| 4 | A territorial sunbird can time its visits to a particular flower such that its nectar has built up to a high level . |
| 5 | THE Weightman Rutherfords Liverpool Competition has got off to a tremendous start with 54 wins coming from the first 72 fixtures . |
| 6 | PETER Scudamore 's neighbour Nigel Twiston-Davies has got off to a tremendous start this season with 24 wins in the bag already . |
| 7 | The second half has got off to a good start , with slightly higher orders for October . |
| 8 | TV Quick , the German interloper in the British TV listings market , has got off to a flying start . |
| 9 | Oxford University 's Matthew Syed has got off to a flying start in the Olympic Qualifying tournament in Italy , winning both his opening matches . |
| 10 | The Grand National meeting at Aintree has got off to a tragic start with two horses dying in the first race . |
| 11 | NEW LIFE : A new branch of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child has got off to an encouraging start at St Winefride 's parish in Neston , where Jim Hallis is the chairman , Margaret Unsworth is the secretary and Debbi Trotman is the treasurer . |
| 12 | He criticises their lack of any real depth of Gaelic culture , and with the exception of Machair , which has got off to an excellent start , all the other programmes seem to be shallow or merely ‘ Mickey Mouse ’ . |
| 13 | Your marriage has got off to an unfortunate start but it does n't warrant the last rites just yet . |
| 14 | But he added : ‘ Everybody recognises that the Government has to hold on to an existing policy until the replacement is ready to put in place , and clearly the Secretary of State has to hold to his policy until an alternative has been agreed . ’ |
| 15 | The International Institute for Educational Planning held an important and , I understand , effective regional seminar on education evaluation in Dar es Salaam in 1975 which has led on to a certain degree of follow-up in a number of countries . |
| 16 | The critique of the pathological views of black family life that were so prevalent in Social Services during the late seventies and early eighties has led directly to an extraordinary idealization of black family forms . |
| 17 | The medal , presented by the Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace , is awarded each year to a holder of a City & Guilds qualification who has gone on to a senior management position in their chosen field . |
| 18 | He 'd looked forward to a comfortable retirement with his wife Audrey . |
| 19 | I must have fallen on to a sharp stick , I thought . |
| 20 | Even at this stage he was thinking of the day he would bring a murderer into court and his evidence would have to stand up to a hostile defence counsel . |
| 21 | Fred Clasper may have moved on to a new fighting ground but he , and men like him , left behind their destructive trade-mark on Britain for more than a decade . |
| 22 | ‘ Our free newspapers continue to perform well with the North West Echo having got off to an excellent start . ’ |
| 23 | Nenna thought of Tilda , who would certainly have got on to a late night bus and ridden without paying the fare , or even have borrowed money from the conductor . |
| 24 | Not even hard blows a man could take with dignity , only the manner of measured punishment he might have dealt out to a misbehaving child with whom he had not lost patience . |
| 25 | I never really regretted opting out , and I know that I could never have settled down to a steady shore job while the cutters were still available . |
| 26 | Growing up in a South African mining town , the son of a reasonably successful lawyer , he might easily have settled down to an ordinary , respectable career , following his father into law , perhaps , as one of his cousins did , or becoming an architect like another of them . |
| 27 | The course is both demanding and rewarding ; a graduate in French will have shown competence in a variety of academic and intellectual skills , will have adapted successfully to a challenging foreign environment , and will thus have demonstrated the qualities of intellect and personality most prized by employers . |
| 28 | He would probably have gone on to a ripe old age . ’ |
| 29 | Few coffin-makers had the talent to fashion such an item , so an order would have gone out to a local plumber . |
| 30 | If the hon. Gentleman wants a level playing field between Scotland and England , he will have to face up to a substantial drop in spending by central Government in Scotland . |