Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] [indef pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | Nobody ever volunteered to work with Brian , so Mr Grovey always had to force someone to , usually by threatening something terrible if they refused . |
| 3 | The growing hostility between Richard and the Stanleys after 1484 can be explained in terms of the king 's policies , but it may also have owed something to the frictions of the previous fifteen years . |
| 4 | The grant of the chancellorship of the earldom of March to William Catesby may also have owed something to Hastings , although , given the location of the office , probably more to another of Catesby 's patrons , the duke of Buckingham . |
| 5 | The growing hostility between Richard and the Stanleys after 1484 can be explained in terms of the king 's policies , but it may also have owed something to the frictions of the previous fifteen years . |
| 6 | The grant of the chancellorship of the earldom of March to William Catesby may also have owed something to Hastings , although , given the location of the office , probably more to another of Catesby 's patrons , the duke of Buckingham . |
| 7 | The consecration of his new basilica on the anniversary of Assandun and the erection of a church on the battlefield could also have owed something to Danish interest . |
| 8 | Come to think of it , if the bus had started out from NZ at the start of last season , it could just about have delivered everyone to Southampton in time for the famous Away Win . |
| 9 | It was uncertain whether she was offering him tea or dinner or nothing , since the time she gave was a quarter to six and she would never have had anyone to drinks . |