Example sentences of "[conj] have [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , an employer who has allowed all his employees access to information or has entrusted it to the least skilled may find the court unsympathetic . |
| 2 | Others had festering wounds that seemed never to heal , or had adapted themselves to a three-legged gait , running as fast as the other dogs but with one leg , withered or deformed from birth , tucked up under their bodies . |
| 3 | After the kick is executed , he returns the leg that has kicked it to the ground and immediately follows up with a roundhouse kick off the opposite leg , using the front leg as a support . |
| 4 | From the first moment we met you wove a spell that has bound me to you more securely than chains could ever do . ’ |
| 5 | But last night they produced the sort of display that has taken them to Wembley . |
| 6 | Ian Porterfield 's young side immediately showed to the challenge from the start , showing the form that has taken them to fourth in the Premier League after just one defeat in their previous 11 games . |
| 7 | Sedgefield Racers make the long trip to Chiltern tonight looking to maintain an end of season run that has taken them to the fringes of the play-off chase . |
| 8 | First of all erm he justified his view on environmental considerations as as considered by the City Council , I think we would say , the County Council , that one of the main considerations that has brought us to the conclusion that we have are environmental considerations , the environment of York and its immeding immediate surroundings , the protection er of the York greenbelt , environmental considerations have been er at the most er in our minds . |
| 9 | ‘ And it was my plan that has brought you to your heart 's desire . ’ |
| 10 | In terms of his career , Bristol Rovers ' FA Cup tie at Aston Villa on Saturday is Allison 's last ride on a footballing roller coaster that has delivered him to gravity-defying heights and suicidal lows . |
| 11 | Most of the money for the campaign has come from the central government and the United Nations , but it seems to be Marxist enthusiasm that has put it to good use . |
| 12 | Although having accustomed ourselves to ‘ polyfilla based nutrition ’ nothing could have prepared us for the fish which was served at one of the so-called meals . |
| 13 | For whether or no she had been instrumental in the making of that despicable will , it was her presence here that had caused it to be made . |
| 14 | The police car that had followed him to the Windorah was still parked across the road . |
| 15 | He felt that the forces that had brought him to this narrow corner of a Neapolitan street — the wish , on the one hand , to track down Elsie and now the fear , on the other , that this search would lead him to harm — these forces might hold him there , his foot on the edge of the pavement overhanging the choked and filthy gutter , in a kind of uneasy equilibrium and he might stay there for a long , long time . |
| 16 | He had served twenty-four years in the US House of Representatives , including nine as Minority Leader of the Republicans , and it was Ford 's popularity on both sides of the aisle that had brought him to the presidency . |
| 17 | She also told him that it was prayer that had brought him to her . |
| 18 | In fact , it was while he was up for the interview that he read in The Times the advertisement that had brought him to Burleigh : |
| 19 | That the Romans had " abandoned the disciplined , frugal and stern manner of life that had brought them to such greatness , and fell into the pernicious pursuit of luxury and licence " ( 37.2. 1 ) was , in the same perspective , seen as the primary cause of the Social War . |
| 20 | It was her deep sorrow and unhappiness at the tragic accident that had brought them to the United States , together with all the fraught , highly charged tension of having to be in Ross 's company for any length of time , which had taken its toll of her already precariously weak reserves of strength . |
| 21 | Would Eve be furious if Mother Francis heard the whole story of the lies , the unhappiness and the circumstances that had brought her to the other side of the city and now into a hospital bed ? |
| 22 | When they were together , she felt in charge ; and the feeling made her forget all that had brought her to this . |
| 23 | The following unusual use of to provides further confirmation of this : ( 25 ) She waited , Kate Croy , for her father to come in , but he kept her unconscionably , and there were moments at which she showed herself , in the glass over the mantel , a face positively pale with the irritation that had brought her to the point of going away without sight of him . |
| 24 | The commission that had brought us to Préfleur was for music to a libretto by M. Xavier Frontenac . |
| 25 | Holly coming back to the bench after an hour 's walk that had taken him to the ski jump where the young people gathered to watch the first of the winter 's athletes propel themselves into the dizzy air flows . |
| 26 | Wagnerian music in general had now taken its hold and was irresistibly leading Nietzsche to admit a response diametrically opposed to the objectivity that had commended itself to him before . |
| 27 | My behaviour was surely prompted by flaws in my character — flaws that had allowed me to be connected so incestuously with Ladhar Bheinn , Riggindale and the rest in the first place . |
| 28 | He had never pretended to love her and it was her misfortune that the time that had meant nothing to him had made her his forever . |
| 29 | As a young man , it had been his recognition of the need for contemporary diction and contemporary imagery in poetry that had drawn him to sources as disparate as Baudelaire and John Davidson . |
| 30 | It had been his reluctance to cry ‘ wolf ’ that had got him to where he stood now . |