Example sentences of "have [verb] an [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must have looked an odd bunch to any passing motorist catching us in his headlights . |
| 2 | What happens next depends on the particular model : you may find that the machine goes automatically into record mode on switch-on , or you may have to press an additional button to ready it for recording . |
| 3 | But before these matters could be considered the court had to address an argument for the Crown which , if it had succeeded , would have brought an immediate end to the matter . |
| 4 | Not only did prostitutes frequent the theatre , but the street transvestite was sometimes associated with prostitution and possibly sodomy : Henriques notes a regulation dating from 1480 forbidding prostitutes to dress as men in public , and remarks : ‘ This masquerading presumably would have meant an added inducement to sodomy ’ ( Prostitution and Society , ii . |
| 5 | As far as the marine conservation society is concerned , the tragedy is that it may have taken an ecological disaster to finally make people listen . |
| 6 | But it does not follow , as Strawson asserts that it does , that we should have to take an objective attitude to all behaviour just like the attitude we now take to behaviour we call abnormal . |