Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd just gone down there to look for any good-natured sucker . |
| 2 | I 'd just got far enough to notice |
| 3 | CATHERINE Robbie , if you 've just come back here to give me a fright because of something that happened ages ago , you 're mad . |
| 4 | He took up his claret , drank , and moved to an anecdote which he had found scarcely ever failed and would surely , he was convinced , see him through this supper party as the man of wide travel , wide curiosity , the aristocratic rover who had finally come back home to live by the more profound , more refined things of life . |
| 5 | Benjamin had just lived long enough to see the first of his children married : Ella Frances May Titford 's wedding had taken place on 26 August 1905 , in that very church in which her father was to collapse eight days later . |
| 6 | I 've already eaten enough today to do a man for a week . |
| 7 | I 've always had quite enough to do taking over my own . ’ |
| 8 | He held his shoulders well back and straight , and although Camille had never got close enough to make certain , she was convinced that he strode with his eyes half closed and a small , smart smile on his lips : unique , invincible , the splendid solitary leader of the procession , never to be challenged , usurped or tripped up . |
| 9 | We found that ministers had solemnly undertaken not only to repair The Grange , but also to open it to the public . |
| 10 | Abortive attempts in our time to shuffle off the whole experience and make light of its impact have only begun comparatively recently to attract the attention of psycho-analysts . |
| 11 | Meanwhile health campaigns have largely failed so far to change behaviour . |
| 12 | But they have signally failed so far to build an intellectual constituency in wider circles of the kind that gave Thatcherism — which had little intellectual depth of its own — the basis on which to construct a new kind of politics . |
| 13 | well he 's probably got nowhere else to go , I mean it 's |