Example sentences of "have [verb] [pers pn] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your own haiku can have ‘ movement ’ as its subject , ‘ my town ’ , ‘ Spring ’ or whatever has moved you to powerful feeling . |
| 2 | Most of the money for the campaign has come from the central government and the United Nations , but it seems to be Marxist enthusiasm that has put it to good use . |
| 3 | Her whole adult life was a triumph of determination over a body that could have condemned her to permanent invalidism . |
| 4 | Your interest in works like the B minor Mass of Bach , Beethoven 's Missa Solemnis , and such semi-sacred works as the Bruckner Fifth Symphony was said not to have endeared you to certain Party officials . |
| 5 | The decision arose from a claim lodged with the ECJ by a group of mainly Spanish-owned fishing companies , employing vessels registered as British , that amendments to the UK 1988 Merchant Shipping Act which excluded 95 of their vessels from British waters were illegal under EC law and had exposed them to financial ruin . |
| 6 | She was no longer in the habit of being late : her life had schooled her to temporal accuracy , perhaps to being considerate . |
| 7 | He had introduced her to physical passion , and at the same time ignited a fire in his own sensual , earthy Taurean nature that had proved impossible to quench . |
| 8 | In Galway itself , the scenes and actions of the past few years had brought him to early maturity as a willing recruit for the politics of the street fight . |
| 9 | The conclusive Senate vote was scheduled for Oct. 8 , but had to be delayed for seven days following revelation of new evidence from Anita Hill , 35 , a black University of Oklahoma teacher of law , who alleged that Thomas had subjected her to sexual harassment with explicit , pornographic suggestions when she worked for him at the Department of Education and the EEOC in the early 1980s . |
| 10 | With characteristic business acumen , the Swiss spas saw the renaissance of the classical water therapy on the way , beckoning all sections of society , and they have turned it to good account . |
| 11 | A glance around the London hotel scene shows examples of plenty of exceptional women who have made it to general management ; Madelon Boom , at the age of 26 , at Hyatt 's Lowndes Hotel ; Dagmar Woodward at The May Fair Inter-Continental ; Doreen Boulding at The Conrad Chelsea Harbour , etc . |
| 12 | We have used them to great effect from boats or for getting baits in under trees or undercut banks where casting has been impossible but the wind has helped to carry the bait into inaccessible areas often inhabited by pike . |
| 13 | Their social habits have fitted them to human society . |