Example sentences of "[verb] had [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Yet another , fortunately quite rare , follows you around when it sees secateurs in your hands and drops a few eggs into the soft pith of the stem when you make a cut , before the cut wound has had time to callus and heal itself — another reason why you should always try to confine cutting to a fine dry day . |
2 | Sun 's other weak point may be the fact that WABI 's Praxsys creators come from BIOS house Phoenix Technologies Ltd where they would have had access to MS-DOS . |
3 | Sun 's other weak point may be the fact that WABI 's Praxsys creators come from BIOS house Phoenix Technologies Ltd , where they would have had access to MS-DOS , although Phoenix was one of the pioneers of the concept of the clean room , where no-one that has any inside knowledge of the code being emulated is allowed to come into contact with the developers of the emulation . |
4 | No doubt after six days of living in a trench , the dirt would have had time to grime itself in . |
5 | At work , given that , despite her de glamorisation , she had had cause to cold-shoulder one Lothario from Purchasing and another from Sales who had been fresh beyond what she thought acceptable , she was quite contented with her lot . |
6 | While more women have had access to education , the economic crisis has combined with prevailing social attitudes to limit women 's opportunities to improve their economic position . |