Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt said he expected the project to proceed , but did not say whether the government would take the unprecedented step of overriding the commission ; environmentalists have pressed for a tunnel to be built instead .
2 All I can suggest sir is the case is adjourned just have to arrange for a solicitor to be here .
3 Urueu-Wau-Wau indian leaders have said in a statement to Survival International that they can no longer tolerate the invasion of miners and loggers on to their land .
4 Radical economists have argued for an escape to a market system before it is too late , but the conservative establishment has always over-ruled them .
5 Stephen Dent 's family have applied for an extension to Roman Rudyayev 's visa because he 's achieved remarkable results with their son .
6 This is followed by a brief outline of the continental legal system to which critics have turned for a solution to our problems .
7 I have been constantly told what a fine man he was and I regret not being able to experience and appreciate his qualities first-hand as I have grown from a child to an adult .
8 They have offered as an alternative to a formal listing , a system of self-regulation .
9 Some commentators have ascribed the rise in the number of homeless mentally ill people to the run down of psychiatric hospitals and have called for a halt to the policy of closure .
10 Some critics , including the US government 's attorney general , have called for an end to the insanity plea altogether .
11 POLICE leaders have put off a warning to Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke that they might seek full trade union rights , including the option to strike .
12 You have too much good sense not to discover that I , in spite of my heart and all the pride of it , can not but love you and have put on a behaviour to you that was much against my heart , in hopes to frighten you from your reservedness .
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