Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sufficient to say I was deeply embarrassed , and the time has come to put an end to this absurdity . |
| 2 | In her catalogue introduction Alexandra Noble notes the extent to which installation art , using hybrid forms , has come to represent a challenge to the modernist emphasis on the purity of the particular medium . |
| 3 | ‘ Ace , Benny , ’ Petion called out as he entered , ‘ the Colonel has decided to take a force to the cemetery . |
| 4 | Since graduation this particular environmental scientist has spent an admittedly enjoyable spell as a porter in a Newfoundland hospital , and has helped to ferry a yacht to the Canaries , and is now washing dishes in the basement of a famous and expensive London hotel . |
| 5 | Pedigree has promised to make a donation to WWF for every Archie and Purdy toy , and Whiskas or Chum calendar sold , guaranteeing at least £35,000 to support our highest priority projects . |
| 6 | Exports of wildlife products to the US are worth US$10 million a year to Korea , which has promised to become a party to CITES , although its promises are viewed with some scepticism by conservationists . |
| 7 | It said : ‘ The health authority does not accept legal liability but , in view of the unique and tragic circumstances of this case , has agreed to make a contribution to the family of an undisclosed sum . ’ |
| 8 | A DARLINGTON woman has died leaving a fortune to the American college where she studied more than 50 years ago . |
| 9 | Ignoring accrued interest , the price that a bond has to have to give a yield to maturity of 9 per cent is given by . |
| 10 | Point of order , Madam Speaker I seek your ruling on the fact that the Secretary of State for health has declined to make a statement to the house on the increase of fifty P in prescription charges . |
| 11 | It does not matter why a State has failed to become a party to a treaty , or whether it is eligible to become a party and intends at some time to do so . |
| 12 | Police and MPs have strongly criticized an Old Bailey verdict which allowed a teenage vandal to walk free after he 'd admitted stabbing a neighbour to death . |
| 13 | police and MPs have strongly criticized a teenage vandal to walk free after he 'd admitted stabbing a neighbour to death . |
| 14 | ( 3 ) The draftsman could never have intended to permit a doctor to lawfully sub-contract all his work . |
| 15 | How Lord Mountbatten would have relished adding a saint to the other family honours he proudly displayed . |
| 16 | Rather than railing against American policy in Vietnam in 1966 – 67 , might he not have attempted to mediate a solution to the conflict ? |
| 17 | Seb could have gone to the Hankses ' cottage and perhaps worked on his learning with Carrie , but that would have meant paying a visit to Anna in her sick room and listening to his mother chatting about the plans for the wedding . |
| 18 | ‘ Emma and Becky 's lives were ended just before their 18th birthday when they would have begun to make a contribution to the world through the caring professions they had chosen to work in . |
| 19 | Memories of the marathon " sew-in " before she left home for the International Youth Congress could not have failed to bring a smile to Eva 's lips , or those of her sisters , if they could have seen her stitching away patiently and efficiently on a hand-driven sewing machine . |
| 20 | Yes it did it run down to the river and we used to have to write to get a permit to camp on there for the week but then there used to be an old , the old foreman of he used to come round every Saturday night , have you got your permit ? |
| 21 | Mr Lister reported that the International Society for Humour Studies had decided to put an end to the annual Julia Moor Good Bad Poetry Competition . |
| 22 | The strained relations between Russia and Japan deteriorated further when it was reported that the Sakhalin provincial authorities had decided to grant a contract to a Hong Kong company for a development project on Shikotan , one of the disputed islands . |
| 23 | The President wished me well on my expedition and then , quite unexpectedly , announced that the College had decided to make a contribution to its cost . |
| 24 | You 've got to put a stop to this . |
| 25 | Gloucester opened negotiations with the dowager almost immediately , apparently claiming that he had been given custody of her and her land by the king , and by January 1473 the countess and her feoffees had agreed to make an estate to Gloucester in all the dower lands . |
| 26 | Gloucester opened negotiations with the dowager almost immediately , apparently claiming that he had been given custody of her and her land by the king , and by January 1473 the countess and her feoffees had agreed to make an estate to Gloucester in all the dower lands . |
| 27 | Churchill , while being ‘ too much a man ’ to kick the PM on the ground , had agreed to send a letter to Downing Street demanding to know by midday on Sunday the exact position he could expect to hold in the government . |
| 28 | A messenger he had employed to take a letter to France revealed its contents to the king . |
| 29 | You would n't believe what I had to do to get an introduction to the sisters . |
| 30 | The president had hoped to negotiate an end to the country 's long-running , though much weakened , left-wing insurgency . |