Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [vb pp] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time as the Convent negotiations were taking place , the Governors were also advertising for a new headmaster , for Mr. Scott had decided to retire at the end of the Easter Term in 1979 . |
| 2 | Today the company has moved on , trying to cohabit with such bedfellows as hundreds of small software firms , or investing in specialist ‘ business partners ’ IBM has learned to cooperate at least a little , and even sold off a few businesses — but the company continues to have an exceptionally coherent set of beliefs and behaviour patterns . |
| 3 | Following discussions between Bond , the Shrewsbury board and Burnley police , Bond has agreed to stay at home rather than attend the match and provoke violent scenes on the terraces . |
| 4 | The chap then goes to the manager , saying ‘ Perry has agreed to appear at our benefit concert , ’ whereupon the manager says , ‘ Sod off , slime bucket . ’ |
| 5 | Duroc had had to smile at that . |
| 6 | To the massed spectators in the stands , flung in an instant from joyous acclaim of a Royal winner to horrified , dumbfounded silence , Devon Loch had seemed to leap at an imaginary obstacle before slithering to the ground and skidding along to a halt , the momentum throwing Francis up on to the horse 's neck . |
| 7 | Mr Bush announced that Mrs Black had agreed to help at the school as there would be an extra seventy children attending . |
| 8 | Nottingham Crown Court heard that Allitt had gone to live at the Jobson home in 1991 . |
| 9 | Liz had continued to live at home with her parents , but she was now thinking about going to stay with her brother and his wife for a few weeks . |
| 10 | Since Britten 's death in 1976 Sir Peter has continued to live at the Red House where he observes with sometimes amused and sometimes astonished eyes , the considerable development of the Britten-Pears Library and the Britten Archive . |
| 11 | ‘ It came on suddenly — Charles has gone to look at this new sewing-factory equipment at some place in Wales … |
| 12 | Supposing , just supposing , that Mackay and Parsons had arranged to meet at the cottage . |
| 13 | That 's why it was surprising that Jenny had gone to stay at Moorlake in these last months . |
| 14 | It was situated close to the United Nations headquarters as well as being only three blocks away from the African American Institute which Mobuto had requested to see at some point during his visit . |
| 15 | I remembered all kinds of girls whom Harvey had wanted to marry at some time or other . |
| 16 | Jim had decided to stay at a hotel there till his car was mended . |
| 17 | Again in 1960 , the EEC had begun to look at the problem of discrimination in transport , and in 1961 a Monetary Committee was established , as well as one charged with examining trade cycle policy . |
| 18 | Over the course of two months , Ben had started to eat at meal-times and his mother had been able to introduce more variety into his diet and increase the quantity offered . |
| 19 | Hope was so dug into his happy daydream that he failed to notice that Crump had stopped to gaze at something : he himself walked several yards on before the absence of his companion impinged on him . |
| 20 | Bathsheba had planned to stay at the party for only an hour , and she was in fact preparing to leave when Boldwood found her alone in an upstairs room . |
| 21 | Curiously , Branson did not dislike McLaren — Malcolm 's transparently roguish charm made him hard to dislike — but he had never trusted him from the day they had first shaken hands in Leslie Hill 's office and McLaren had failed to arrive at the Virgin offices ; failed to keep his promise . |
| 22 | What had happened was that Birkenhead , Austen Chamberlain , Worthington Evans , Derby and Joynson Hicks had , together or separately ( and , according to Bridgeman , backed by Beaverbrook and Rothermere ) succeeded in persuading Balfour that Baldwin intended to resign ; that he should , if asked by the King , advise him to choose not MacDonald nor Asquith , but another Conservative- Derby or Austen Chamberlain , because he held Baldwin personally to blame rather than his party ; further , they had so worked on Stamfordham , that if Baldwin had gone to resign at once , the advice tendered to the King by his private secretary would have been the same . |
| 23 | Baldwin had intended to resign at once if Labour got a majority and this was still his instinct , but now he retired to Chequers where on 1 June came Davidson , Eyres Monsell , Austen Chamberlain and Hoare . |
| 24 | Worse , Mr. Mounce had begun to look at him oddly . |
| 25 | He knew nothing , nothing , of what Sally-Anne had had to suffer at the hands of one of the monsters who controlled … what were his weaselling words ? … the mechanism . |
| 26 | As part of a reassessment of its priorities , SERC has had to look at the balance of its forward planning , in particular to ensure that the funding of grants can recover from necessary short-term stringencies . |
| 27 | There was nothing revealing about Culley 's pause — the surprise was genuine , as if Sanchez had come straight to a point that Culley had intended to arrive at slowly . |
| 28 | Oblivious of the equivocal nature of her remarks , Gwendolen was hoping that Angelina , with whom Sir Thomas had chosen to sit at a table for two only , would take due note of her omission of the ‘ sir ’ . |
| 29 | Guido had turned to glance at her with a look of mocking distaste . |
| 30 | Over the past 18 months the MCofS have attempted to arrive at the compromise statement on the contentious issue of bolting in Scotland . |