Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pers pn] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has committed it to an inevitable struggle with the Palestinians for control of policy on the Palestine question and , by extension , for control of Jordan itself . |
| 2 | She 's bitterley disappointed that the council has sold it to a local businessman who wants to use the premises to repair binoculars . |
| 3 | Their desperate League form this season has consigned them to a similar predicament , while Chelsea are on the crest of a wave . |
| 4 | Perhaps racism has conditioned us to a greater extent than we expected . |
| 5 | Russian , ultimately , has brought us to a similar endeavour . |
| 6 | Iii case this book should be read by some fundamentalist searching for straws to prop up his prejudices , let me state categorically that all my experience ( such as it is ) has led me to an unqualified acceptance of evolution by natural selection as a sufficient explanation for what I have seen in the fossil record . |
| 7 | This is particularly important if a ‘ traditional ’ training has kept them to a limited understanding and repertoire . |
| 8 | ‘ You might cook him a wonderful pie and then you 'd find he 'd given it to a drunken beggar , and no matter how kind you thought him after a while you 'd want to kill him . |
| 9 | Anyway , after I 'd introduced her to a few different locations and got her over the initial newness of the experience , she seemed perfectly willing to come to me . |
| 10 | Having shown her to a modern , well-appointed bathroom next to the kitchen , he left her . |
| 11 | If we could have got him to a warm climate we might have kept him alive for a year or two more than we did . |
| 12 | It might have been expected that the tribal masks and statuettes that had such a profound effect on Picasso 's painting would have excited him to a new activity in the field of sculpture as they did Derain and , to a certain extent , Matisse . |
| 13 | The headmistressy tone should have reduced him to an ill-behaved schoolboy . |
| 14 | ‘ You should 've sent me to a decent school , ’ said Camille . |
| 15 | The Robemaker had not closed the door , but he had pushed it to a little . |
| 16 | Her existence , he now realised , had implications far beyond her abrasive and insistent presence : it had tethered him to a distant shore . |
| 17 | An MTB had whisked her to a waiting submarine , and her second assignment had begun . |
| 18 | After its discovery in 1873 , the Tongue had found its way into the hands of a treasure-hunter , who had kept quiet about it and sold it to a London dealer , who in turn had sold it to an American collector , who had lent it to an exhibition in Philadelphia in 1922 — which latter appearance had provided the clues , sixty-five years later , for a detective-story-like investigation on the part of Theodore Kemp of the Ashmolean Museum — a man who now lay dead in the mortuary at the Radcliffe Infirmary . |
| 19 | Older residents recall the days when a car could be driven down this lane , but years of neglect had reduced it to a narrow path . |
| 20 | Her sexual appetite and expertise at that early age had endeared her to a senior officer who then enlisted her as an agent . |
| 21 | Kitson was a prolific inventor whose own difficulties in financing and manufacturing his patents had led him to a radical critique of the banking system . |
| 22 | Their one real clue from the Executive killings had led them to a small Ping Tiao cell in the Mids fifty li south of Bremen . |
| 23 | In early 1990 Chatichai had allowed Manoon to return to Thailand from exile and had appointed him to a high-level post within the Defence Ministry . |
| 24 | He had taken her to a modest hotel in Albemarle Street , and booked in there as Mr and Mrs Arkwright . |
| 25 | ‘ Someone had taken it to a French jeweller after the war and tried to sell it . |
| 26 | I said when I was told the Echo had seconded me to a new day job , a comic career move . |
| 27 | I said when I was told the Echo had seconded me to a new day job , a comic career move . |
| 28 | Once Eric was in the car they had driven towards Soragna , then by a roundabout route to a big plantation of poplars near the right bank of the Po , where they had directed him to a well-hidden place in the middle . |
| 29 | His caresses had urged her to a wild , uninhibited passion she 'd never known she possessed — but it was the love she felt for him that had sent her into such a breathtaking completion . |
| 30 | ‘ I have moved it to a small paddock beyond the castle walls . ’ |