Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could perhaps have submitted himself to some army medical board , but whether they would have enthused over the application of a 48-year-old epileptic syphilitic with no military experience except that acquired while shooting wild-life in the desert |
| 2 | He 'd only have wanted us to be happy . ’ |
| 3 | Wilson was quick to see how provocative such a development would be to the shipowners and refused to accept the post , though he confessed to have been " foolish enough to have allowed myself to be nominated and elected as honorary general manager , which meant that I was lending my name to an organization over which I had no control " . |
| 4 | He would have done better to have given everything to the boy outright , but it is my belief he did not want Benedict to lose touch with his godmother . ’ |
| 5 | She only had to make it to the airlock , seal the inner door behind her and wait … . |
| 6 | I maintained a straighter course now but perpetually wanted to stop , and so had to ration myself to two minutes rest in every fifteen , and ten minutes on the hour . |
| 7 | And then if we get agreement on a salary increase then we only have to pay it to one person |
| 8 | Without it , she could not have given herself to him so completely . |
| 9 | But you do not have to confine yourself to just one murder . |
| 10 | Bank CDs are negotiable pieces of paper ; you do not have to hold them to maturity ; you can sell them instead . |
| 11 | On the other hand Mrs Singh would lose all her social contacts in the local community once she did not have to take him to school every day . |
| 12 | Theoretically , the Council should have been a cross-section of the people socially ( as we have seen it was geographically ) : its members were appointed by lot , they served only for a year at a time , so that the Councillors should not have felt themselves to be a cohesive hereditary body like the old Areopagus or the ( semi-hereditary ) Roman Senate , and they could not serve more than twice in their lives . |
| 13 | However , this has been used mainly for those whose crimes would not have sent them to prison anyway . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , one would not have wished her to be miserable . |
| 15 | He could not have returned you to England no matter how hard he had tried . ’ |
| 16 | But perhaps he could not have attracted them to The Other Story . |
| 17 | A special feature is the principle of delayed and informed choice by which students gain a broad foundation in the study of the humanities and do not have to commit themselves to their degree programme until the end of the first year . |
| 18 | Again , it is not quite like joining a club , because you simply attend , you do not have to commit yourself to anything more than that . |
| 19 | My friend , the student , could not have begun to agree to that , and of course the taxi driver would not have allowed him to . |
| 20 | This perhaps supports the criticism that the Queen 's advisers should not have allowed her to be urged into an immediate invitation to Lord Home and that she should have taken at least a little time fully to apprise herself of the changing political situation and of the views of the Conservative leadership , as it was then emerging . |
| 21 | But had the statement been plainly defamatory of Crozier , the court would have ordered the settlement to be postponed until after his trial , and may not have allowed it to be made at all under the cloak of absolute privilege . |
| 22 | While a splendid Gris , the 1912 gouache-pastel-charcoal ‘ Nature morte avec bouteille et cigares ’ ( est. $300,000–400,000 ) inexplicably sold under-estimate for $280,000 ( £155,600 ) the work 's severity may not have endeared it to many people the biggest surprise was the prices paid for the Legers , which came from all points of the artist 's career . |
| 23 | Erm as far as the C C Q itself was concerned you , you gave an awful lot of information about the sort of things you were gon na look for when Martin said about , you know , what 's in it and it 's , it 's pretty big and what have you you mentioned a lot of subjects or a lot of technical jargon which may or may not have meant anything to the client rather than just say well , you know , some of it wo n't , may well not apply to you . |
| 24 | As I see it Chapman might just have made it to number ten , but I doubt it . |
| 25 | There 's nothing sinister in her not having mentioned it to you . |
| 26 | I deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for not having torn him to pieces already ! ’ |
| 27 | Your interest in works like the B minor Mass of Bach , Beethoven 's Missa Solemnis , and such semi-sacred works as the Bruckner Fifth Symphony was said not to have endeared you to certain Party officials . |
| 28 | We discovered the beautiful scenery is not the only attraction of Monte Maggiore , and when we found the Residence Elena we felt , at once , that we just had to add it to our selection . |
| 29 | Miriam had offered to do it for him , and so had Eliza and Margaret , and he could , of course , easily have given it to the dhobi in spite of his inflated prices . |
| 30 | DEC 5 : Booked again following long-running feud with Southampton defender Ken Monkou , who says : ‘ He 's got a temperament , but you just have to leave him to it and do n't argue with him because that 's what he wants . ’ |