Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The awful truth of Penny 's childhood and young womanhood is that the abuse never ended — and someone with the right counselling skills has to help her to unburden herself . |
| 2 | Picketing in various forms has shown itself to be one of the most effective forms of industrial action . |
| 3 | Mr. Wakeham : I agree that the way in which the House has dealt with European matters in recent months has left something to be desired , and I am taking steps to try to improve it . |
| 4 | Dewi had wanted her to be independent , to fend for herself when he was no longer there to take care of her , but he could not have known that his death would have come so suddenly , striking him down in the prime of his manhood . |
| 5 | Those peasants who continued to own draught animals had lent them to relief organizations at the height of the Famine , but by the spring of 1922 they refused to do this any longer , since they now found many profitable uses for them . |
| 6 | She had got as far as pulling out her suitcase , which looked scruffier than ever now that her eyes had accustomed themselves to the comfortable luxury of Luke Hunter 's flat , and laying it open on the bed before something inside her rebelled . |
| 7 | Harry went slowly and cautiously through the gully , feeling his way at every step until his eyes had accustomed themselves to the darkness , and could judge distances and distinguish the shapes of the weathered planes of rock that leaned over him . |
| 8 | While the official figure is 25,000 miles — equivalent to circumnavigating the globe — some journalists have calculated it to be nearer 15,000 , which they suggest would leave Mr Ashdown stranded in East Timor . |
| 9 | And I bought a couple but the kids have taken them to school . |
| 10 | Therefore , once the parties have committed themselves to an offer and acceptance , it is too late to introduce new terms . |
| 11 | In fact , barring these two statements by Mr Kinnock , the parties have confined themselves to offering me choices which I do not feel competent to make . |
| 12 | His gallic flair has illuminated Old Trafford and the United supporters have taken him to their hearts — they have even invented ( in their usual witty and original way ) a song which goes ‘ Ooh Aah Cantona , Ooh Aah cantona ’ . |
| 13 | An Austrian commission of inquiry into the condition of a Czech reactor just inside the border between the two countries has found it to be in an extremely dangerous state . |
| 14 | Steady progress over the last four decades has brought us to a point where much of what happens in primary education is a source of pride . |
| 15 | It must have been heartbreaking for people who had been through sensational experiences to have to recount them to politely tepid audiences and to discover that their stories conformed to an orthodox pattern . |
| 16 | It seemed to me that I had become what my parents had wanted me to be , and I was getting no thanks from either of them for my efforts . |
| 17 | Her parents had sent her to the convent , and she begged them to let her become a Catholic after she 'd been there only a year . |
| 18 | His parents had sent him to Oslo immediately after Hitler 's annexation of Austria , when he was only nine . |
| 19 | Her parents had taken her to the doctor because of breathing problems and after being sent to hospital it was discovered L had extensive bruising across the buttocks . |
| 20 | After he had slept in the same sheets for six months Nails had taken them to the launderette , and now he had discovered a few things like that , which helped , which was more than his dad ever had . |
| 21 | Her footsteps had taken her to the car park — how , she could n't remember . |
| 22 | The commencement power er will not be put into effect by the Home Secretary until he knows that the other countries have accommodated themselves to the new arrangements . |
| 23 | As the enemy closes in , the hero , safe in the knowledge that his comrades have made it to safety , shoots himself so that the enemy may not take him alive . |
| 24 | Those amiable but blatantly incompetent buffoons have brought me to the wrong fucking airport ! |
| 25 | Likewise in archaeology AMS has enabled us to date samples as minute as individual seeds , which can tell us a great deal about the origins of agriculture and the domestication of cereals . |
| 26 | In the meantime — until you have made your bones , that is — you will needs have to confine yourself to asking my assistance when you wish to retroscend , got that ? |
| 27 | Although his hesitations had alarmed some of them and although his acute shortage of money remained an embarrassment right up to the end , yet the rebels had committed themselves to him . |
| 28 | Although the Republicans had pledged themselves to a tough stand against the Soviet Union , they could not ignore the fact that Stalin 's death in 1953 opened the possibility of improvement in East-West relations . |
| 29 | This has worked in the past : in 1990 the indignation of the world 's intelligentsia stopped the plan to make Venice the site of Expo 2000 when most Italians had resigned themselves to its being inevitable . |
| 30 | Quick wit and cleverness at school had shifted him quickly from his roots in the Belfast underclass , and his natural proclivities had led him to the theatre set , a wee bit of acting and extra-work from time to time , usually as a gunman or a thug and once , memorably , as a rather well-fed hungerstriker . |