Example sentences of "the [noun pl] have [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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1 | She was so badly tortured that the authorities had to send her to hospital . |
2 | And I bought a couple but the kids have taken them to school . |
3 | Therefore , once the parties have committed themselves to an offer and acceptance , it is too late to introduce new terms . |
4 | In fact , barring these two statements by Mr Kinnock , the parties have confined themselves to offering me choices which I do not feel competent to make . |
5 | The roar beats toward Keith , unleashed fifteen-year-old energy , suddenly let out , wild , the crowd joyous to find themselves together braver and better than the individuals had imagined themselves to be . |
6 | Although his hesitations had alarmed some of them and although his acute shortage of money remained an embarrassment right up to the end , yet the rebels had committed themselves to him . |
7 | Although the Republicans had pledged themselves to a tough stand against the Soviet Union , they could not ignore the fact that Stalin 's death in 1953 opened the possibility of improvement in East-West relations . |
8 | Again , I repeat with this problem of unemployment and so on , and the really obscene level of unemployment in this country at the moment — absolutely shocking I think — and I think the universities have to address themselves to that problem . |
9 | The torturers had chained him to a wall , applying searing hot pokers to the softest and most tender parts of his body . |
10 | He always told them to forget it because the School was falling down , it was subsiding , and one day would crumble and disappear : the trains had shaken it to pieces . |
11 | The Friends had proved themselves to be ingenious and enterprising in their adaptation of the building and in procuring items needed in the refurbishing for little , or no , cost . |
12 | I see no reason , in the light of these reports , to abandon the conclusion that my own experience of life in the islands has led me to . |
13 | ‘ The lawyers have offered it to me , it 's true . |
14 | We can conjecture that some of the slaves had bought themselves to serfdom ; that penury had compelled the free to sell their freedom for bread . |
15 | It may not be beautiful and certainly is not fast but it is a survivor , it stands no nonsense and it will be around long after the thoroughbreds have thrashed themselves to death on a rocky shore . |
16 | The police had to tow him to a lay-by or something , or to the side cos erm it just cut out and that was it ! |
17 | The dots have brought us to the bottom of a page — an appropriate point , since we have also , surely , reached the nadir of these proceedings , perhaps of all proceedings in the whole history of the modern Civil Service . |
18 | The railways had done it to the canals and now it was to happen in turn to the railways . |
19 | Bill remarks that the criteria have helped him to be clearer about what is involved in being a good supervisor . |
20 | Within a mere twenty years of the murder of Valentinian III the Romans had accustomed themselves to new political circumstances , and the barbarian rulers had taken over many of the duties which had formerly been exercised by provincial governors as well as military leaders . |
21 | The unions had driven him to infidelity . |