Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's other challenger , and the only one to have made the transatlantic journey , is Tina Cassan with Genesis , the Toronto World Cup-winner . |
| 2 | The consortium 's spokesman Chris Rowley claims his group is the only one to have cracked the retuning problem . |
| 3 | Those journals that did have something to say matched the mainstream press in concentrating on the ‘ reality ’ of the programme 's scenario . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , of course — the meeting to discuss the Christmas bazaar , ’ said Ianthe , remembering now that it would have been impossible for her to have had the quiet evening she had planned . |
| 5 | Rosenberg 's poems from the front show him to have absorbed the great tradition of English pastoral poetry , but his tone is different : more impersonal , informal , ironic , and lacking the indignation characteristic of the work of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon [ qq.v . ] . |
| 6 | Why , then , was John Titford a member of this glorified Home Guard when , at the age of 23 , we might have expected him to have joined the regular army or to have found his way somehow into the militia ? |