Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Berisha , however , has given in to the nationalists over the question of property restitution . |
| 2 | The effect of this change in responsibility has been that in many schools the provision of meals and the supervision of children during the mid-day break has drifted out to the margins of importance and there has been , in general , a gradual decline in the numbers of children receiving cooked meals on school premises . |
| 3 | Then , her arms under his and locked on his chest , she 'd drag my father 's dead weight from wherever he 'd fallen over to the cushions . |
| 4 | She said , do you know she said we 'd gone off to the woods and I suddenly remembered I 'd left my purse in the car . |
| 5 | He repeated the information he 'd passed on to the Abigails and to Mr Plant : that George Joseph Smith had bought fish for the late Miss Munday , and eggs for Mrs Burnham and Miss Lofty . |
| 6 | Here 's an imag-inary line-up Leeds might be fielding now if they 'd held on to the stars they rejected . |
| 7 | The police explained why they 'd held on to the vehicles which were being kept near Malvern , not at Worcester . |
| 8 | She got home to Kington Square at last , still grubby , very hungry , quite dispirited and having had to hand over to the police the document which had cost her an unreasonable amount of suffering . |
| 9 | They said I might have to go down to the police station and be interviewed there later in their inquiries . |
| 10 | ‘ I suppose , ’ she ventured as they neared Water Gypsy , ‘ you 'll have to go back to the beechwoods this morning . |
| 11 | Obviously she 'd have to go out to the shops from time to time , but she 'd had her hair dyed black on the Saturday , bought a new winter coat and a large pair of dark glasses . |
| 12 | Jon , as he proudly watched the Union Jack raised above his head , must have thought back to the days when , as Oxford University Boat Race president , the only flag he looked at was the skull and crossbones which hung in his study with a menacing message written underneath : ‘ Death Zone — No Prisoners . ’ |
| 13 | TAIWAN are likely to be the cannon-fodder of the pool , although their national side 's rapid development programme , modelled on the New Zealand forward technique , should have trickled down to the students , ensuring that the defeats are n't too heavy . |
| 14 | No more trying to remember what 's needed or forgetting some vital ingredient and having to trudge back to the shops . |
| 15 | Little enough of the borough 's wealth appears to have filtered down to the townsfolk . |
| 16 | The field is led by Miró with a rise of 1090% one of the few artists to have held on to the gains of the 1988–90 period . |
| 17 | In short the movies had broken through to the masses and had the power to pull in almost anybody and everybody who helped constitute the masses . |
| 18 | I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me . |
| 19 | The lid had collapsed on to the remains , the sides had fallen outwards , but the two end pieces remained upright . |
| 20 | Frye had moved back to the windows again , to watch Duvall and Pearce battling their way through the storm to the car wreck . |
| 21 | Some injuries had apparently been caused by the explosion dislodging flooring and equipment on the overhead jigs which had crashed on to the men working on the shop-floor . |
| 22 | In the closing stages of the tournament I felt that the message had got through to the players about staying on their feet , and there were less penalties given for this offence than in the pool games . |
| 23 | After two exhausting hours we had to give in to the flames . |
| 24 | " It 's that boy , Timothy Gedge , " Lavinia had said , and then had called out to the twins , who were clamouring for her upstairs somewhere . |
| 25 | He found a ‘ poor fishing town ’ which had retreated on to the cliffs to avoid the winter storms ; but it was far better situated than Daniel Defoe allowed when he visited the coast in the 1720s . |
| 26 | The Victorian stoneware ‘ suite ’ from Mr Twyford 's manufactory was decorated with flowers in willow-pattern blue but paint flaked off the walls and the linoleum had worn through to the floorboards . |
| 27 | we 've gone back to the others though now yes , we get |
| 28 | Marshals had gone over to the rioters , and Yggdrasil had had to override their control of the andrews being used to put down the insurrections . |
| 29 | Because he had gone back to the woodlands where the trees were . |
| 30 | After his conversation with the Zoo Curator Mr Wolski had gone down to the eagles and stared into Minch 's empty cage . |