Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must have fallen on to a sharp stick , I thought . |
| 2 | Even at this stage he was thinking of the day he would bring a murderer into court and his evidence would have to stand up to a hostile defence counsel . |
| 3 | Fred Clasper may have moved on to a new fighting ground but he , and men like him , left behind their destructive trade-mark on Britain for more than a decade . |
| 4 | Nenna thought of Tilda , who would certainly have got on to a late night bus and ridden without paying the fare , or even have borrowed money from the conductor . |
| 5 | Given that the evening was meant to be so special , so significant , they could hardly have got off to a worse start , but Jessica refused to compromise . |
| 6 | Not even hard blows a man could take with dignity , only the manner of measured punishment he might have dealt out to a misbehaving child with whom he had not lost patience . |
| 7 | I never really regretted opting out , and I know that I could never have settled down to a steady shore job while the cutters were still available . |
| 8 | The course is both demanding and rewarding ; a graduate in French will have shown competence in a variety of academic and intellectual skills , will have adapted successfully to a challenging foreign environment , and will thus have demonstrated the qualities of intellect and personality most prized by employers . |
| 9 | He would probably have gone on to a ripe old age . ’ |
| 10 | Few coffin-makers had the talent to fashion such an item , so an order would have gone out to a local plumber . |
| 11 | If the hon. Gentleman wants a level playing field between Scotland and England , he will have to face up to a substantial drop in spending by central Government in Scotland . |
| 12 | None of them has been met , yet today he says that he would have signed up to a single currency without any opt-out clause . |
| 13 | Such conflicting views or theories of style will concern us for the remainder of this chapter , but rather than argue that one view is wholly superior to another , we shall try to harmonize the apparent conflicts , so that at the end of the chapter , we shall have worked through to a balanced view of what stylistics is about . |
| 14 | This could in principle have occurred smoothly : as profitability slid down , accumulation could have declined gently to a sustainable rate . |