Example sentences of "and [pron] have [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I reiterate what he he actually said in a meeting with Calum er Carole Degucht er last year er he said I do y the honourable , my honourable friend said I do not see that uniformity means adopting a system of proportional representation and I 've yet to see a good case as to the merits of different states adopting the same procedure . |
| 2 | There was a slight tendency for the pickups to squeal when the amp was pushed hard and loud , but then I have to remind myself that this is a Korean-made instrument and I 've yet to find one with its pickups totally sorted out . |
| 3 | I — I could n't just go in and — and I had nowhere to go so … ’ |
| 4 | Nearly every farmer had a barrel of the stuff in his cow house in those days and I had only to go into the corner and turn the tap . |
| 5 | Three local anglers had been watching the pantomime with great enjoyment , and I have yet to live it down . |
| 6 | ‘ I can see that it 's going to take me some time to get an answer from the hospital , and I have yet to sort out this business of the air-conditioning . |
| 7 | Their agonised faces amuse me and I have yet to see a happy or embarrassed one . |
| 8 | I have seen many other companies working the same sort of processes , and I have yet to find one which seems to have the final solution . |
| 9 | It is grosser than in any European country and you have only to look down the nearest street to see it . |
| 10 | Best probably knows he should have Cusworth on board and you have only to look at the magical ( and almost posthumous ) transformation that Best has wrought in Peter Winterbottom 's handling and passing to see what a course in sevens indoctrination can achieve . |
| 11 | About 1300 journalists registered at this years ' show , and you have only to read the number of column entries and to hear the radio and to see the television to know that the content of this year 's Royal Show stands second to none in the technical content of agricultural exhibitions across the world . |
| 12 | It strikes me that it is young people who are most at risk and who have most to lose . |
| 13 | The door would not open and she had nowhere to go . |
| 14 | Sadly , at the end of her stay , her promised flat had failed to materialise and she had nowhere to live yet again . |
| 15 | She was also rather surprised by the way in which she took her own newly-acquainted charms , for she was almost as determined as Janice to make the best of herself , and she had more to make the best of . |
| 16 | The lady has , so far as I know , done no harm in the Lords — no one having seen her except on one occasion when she went there to lunch — and she has yet to make her maiden speech . |
| 17 | It often if not always involves children and schools and we 've only to list the petitions that come in here to realise that . |
| 18 | We have yet to integrate them one with another , and we have yet to relate them to the practical demands of learning and teaching foreign languages . |
| 19 | ‘ The phone lines have n't stopped and we have yet to wade through the post bag . |
| 20 | At various points in this book I have referred to such agents — among them nations , dynasties , social classes , elites of diverse kinds , generational , ethnic and cultural groups — and we have now to examine more closely their role in political life and especially the conditions under which one or other of them has a predominant influence . |
| 21 | Woman as Nature was Other , and one had both to study Her and unearth the laws of nature which She contained , and also attempt to restrain the potentially dangerous powers She possessed . |
| 22 | They 've got enough from the stomach alone to kill him twice over and they 've still to separate it from the liver and muscles . |
| 23 | Usually they are a group from an outdoor centre who are being given a taste of what canoeing can offer them and they have yet to appreciate the finer points of our sport or recreation . |
| 24 | Until an hour or two ago I certainly did n't know that this problem had arisen , but the date April has been on the lips of my er Honourable Friend er and of the Noble Minister er I used to represent part of the City of Leeds and Honourable er a and Noble Lord you 'll have heard recently of behaviour at Elland Road Football Ground on the death of Sir Matt Busby and one can only wonder what sort of people er we 're dealing with , but many of them arrive at Leeds City Station on the day of a match and they come early and they have then to get their way to Elland Road and there are often real problems . |
| 25 | Even then no one dared cross him and he had yet to show the dark side of his soul and prove Merlin 's prophecy that he was ‘ The Mouldwarp who would drown his kingdom in a sea of blood ’ . |
| 26 | As well as the rest of them — and he had more to write about than most . |
| 27 | Sarah was now his wife , and he had only to look at her to know he had done the right thing . |
| 28 | She had him standing between her thighs , and he had only to position his rod at her welcoming portals to be inside her . |
| 29 | He now stepped backwards , pulling her away from the piano and into the middle of the room towards the couch , and he had almost to force her to get her stiff body to sit down on it . |
| 30 | if you were buried alive , I mean , Uncle Nat when he used , when he was in , in Uncle Nat when he was out in the war , he used to come back home and he 'd only to hear a siren and he 'd throw himself on the floor |