Example sentences of "[coord] 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 | Addressing himself to the inhabitants of the world , jinn , men and angels , he said , ‘ The Imam of our time has sent you his blessing and his compassion and has called you to be his special , chosen servants . |
| 4 | To understand this point one has to ask how the family has been internally regulated , given that law has claimed no hortatory function over family behaviour and has limited itself to dispute-resolution when things go wrong . |
| 5 | ‘ Since the board has elected as a matter of practice not to give reasons , and has given none to Mr. Cunningham , it has been bound by its own logic not to attempt to justify for the benefit of the court the figure awarded . |
| 6 | His American tour kicked off on day one at the Tournament of Champions in Southern California and has taken him to the two major Pro-Ams — the Bob Hope and the Crosby ( aforementioned Pebble Beach National Pro-Am ) — a trio of Florida events — Doral , the Honda Classic and the Players ' Championship — as well as The Masters , the Colonial , the Memorial , the season-ending Nabisco Championship and a slew of less-hallowed events in between . |
| 7 | Marie told him about Mr Bishop being drunk and getting himself drowned ; about Gazzer finding Madge wandering along the prom and having to take her to Mr Bishop 's brother because she was n't responsible for herself . |
| 8 | She thought that Elizabeth was foolish to have married a silent countryman and to have condemned herself to a life of boredom , and that she should have known better . |
| 9 | Full of interest and packed with information and statistics , it was a great performance , but the Dean frankly acknowledged that credit for it was due to Charles Gorham who had prepared the paper and had given it to him to read . |
| 10 | On reaching Arcady , he 'd attempted to call Zambia 's old apartment and had explained himself to the woman who now lived there . |
| 11 | The decision arose from a claim lodged with the ECJ by a group of mainly Spanish-owned fishing companies , employing vessels registered as British , that amendments to the UK 1988 Merchant Shipping Act which excluded 95 of their vessels from British waters were illegal under EC law and had exposed them to financial ruin . |
| 12 | MARGARET Forster completed what she thought was the final draft of her biography of Daphne du Maurier in April 1992 and had dispatched it to the publisher . |
| 13 | Rural Britain had failed to hold onto its own natural increase , and had lost it to migration . |
| 14 | When nylon underwear first became popular I produced similar fireworks and had to earth myself to radiators when nobody was looking . |
| 15 | In early 1990 Chatichai had allowed Manoon to return to Thailand from exile and had appointed him to a high-level post within the Defence Ministry . |
| 16 | the plaintiff had ‘ purchased ’ a car from a person who had no title to it and had sent it to a garage for repair . |
| 17 | Dameta had taken one look at her heated countenance when she 'd emerged from the pleasance , and had ordered her to bed , muttering about fevers and the carelessness of wandering about in gardens without a mantle . |
| 18 | She had shown him with pride to both her mother and grandmother and had carried him to bed more deeply satisfied than at any time since she had been weaned from Phoebe 's now forgotten breasts . |
| 19 | ‘ Go and put on something beautiful , ’ he said at seven , after he had had two overt vodkas , and poured , as was his habit , a single , large , secret one , and had taken her to bed . |
| 20 | It was one of wistful regret rather than fretful anxiety and had taken her to her daughter 's bedroom , where she was sorting through the show-jumping rosettes Samantha had accumulated during her hippomanic early teens . |
| 21 | Constance had supervised Camille 's introduction to the children of the neighbourhood , to her own nephews and nieces and those of approved families — some in which the parents were still encouraging their infants to assist on their shoplifting expeditions had been dropped from her acquaintance , as she regarded petty larceny as common and ill-advised — and had taken her to many places deemed of interest to children which Scarlet would have found uncongenial . |
| 22 | When Ricky began taking Jenny out she was surprised to learn that Minton paid him money and had taken him to the Caribbean . |
| 23 | No one did want the films , not in America , at least ; Nicholson and Hellman had tampered with the popular view of western history and had taken it to deeper levels , failing totally to appreciate that mass audiences enjoyed westerns purely because they provided escapism . |
| 24 | He had carried the gold on his back in many journeys , and had taken it to a cave on the north-east corner of the island , two months before the Hispaniola arrived . |
| 25 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) . |
| 26 | Dr Whelan had spent three years at the Chester Beatty and had devoted herself to a detailed study of this particular Qur'an . |
| 27 | She had watched him working delicately on the door , with all the attention to detail of the perfectionist , and had known him to be the sort who got what he wanted in life through hard work , never by taking the easy way out . |
| 28 | Earlier , Chamorro had resisted pressure to dismiss Ortega after the army admitted on Jan. 2 that four of its officers had stolen 28 Soviet-made anti-aircraft missiles from army stockpiles in October and had shipped them to guerrillas in El Salvador . |
| 29 | Once in her life already she had become attached to someone and had allowed herself to be swept down with him in his lonely vortex into the silent depths where nothing moves but drowned sailors coughing seaweed ; only Miriam herself knew how much it had cost her to ascend again from that fascinating , ghostly world towards light and life . |
| 30 | By this stage in the Parliament we were deeply unpopular and had allowed ourselves to be painted as a government forcing through doctrinaire policies . |