Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aragorn has to choose between going to Mordor or to Minas Tirith ; delays , and then finds himself choosing between Sam and Frodo or Merry and pippin ; picks one quest , and then has to decide whether to rest or pursue by night . |
| 2 | A TV soap opera star has confessed to stabbing to death the actress who plays his screen lover , police said yesterday . |
| 3 | This was in recognition both of the 40th anniversary of his debut with the company and of the strenuous part he has played in bringing to fruition this ambitious project . |
| 4 | Nissan , having launched two attractive new models in the Primera , which replaces the Bluebird , and the new Sunny ( now called Pulsar ) , and having established a highly productive and effective factory in the north-east to make them , now seems to be attempting to undo all it has achieved by going to war with the key to successful sales , the dealer network . |
| 5 | Any consideration of the Labour Party concern to change the kind of democracy on offer to the people within a new British constitution has to begin by attending to the battles within the Labour Party and to the resulting changes that have occurred in the constitution of the party . |
| 6 | The girl spent a long time wondering whether she could pluck up courage to mention she 'd thought of going to the Swimming Gala if her mother really felt there was nothing she could do . |
| 7 | Despite herself , and probably because she was still feeling the effects of the whisky she 'd taken before going to bed , Rory began to giggle . |
| 8 | The Comoros became an independent state by unilateral declaration in 1975 , after the French colonial authorities had had baulked at agreeing to independance without agreement to the constitution of all the islands , including Mayotte , which has remained under ( contested ) French rule . |
| 9 | They will have to choose between pretending to be friends of the farmer and lackeys of the environmentalist . |
| 10 | Jim must have felt like accelerating to the point of wheelspin but restrained himself and drove sedately to the Hungarian post . |
| 11 | Love was between a man and a woman , love was for marriage , and each would have died before admitting to anything more than they ‘ got on well ’ together . |
| 12 | There are men out there who , three years ago , would not have dreamed of coming to a gathering like this . |
| 13 | Individuals are not accorded the protection given to third States to treaties of having to assent in writing to the imposition of burdens upon them . |
| 14 | It is doubtful that any other army could have coped without resorting to massive retaliations . |
| 15 | In such circumstances it is natural that Ministers should want to implement without undue delay policies for changes in the legal framework of the criminal law and for dealing with offenders which they may have espoused before coming to power . |
| 16 | Munich , in other words , was expressly orchestrated to destabilise public opinion at home , to terrify whole populations with the threat of war and coerce them to accept reactionary government measures in exchange for peace ; ( c ) the British and French governments recoiled from inflicting the diplomatic humiliation on Hitler that would have resulted from resorting to the anti-fascist resistance offered by Washington and above all by Moscow . |
| 17 | They took turns at leading , each of them having begun by trying to be the man . |
| 18 | We seemed to have gone past talking to each other and one day Gabrielle took the children off to her parents and just did n't come back . ’ |
| 19 | Questions of Morality and Christian Virtue aside , she did n't really blame all the women Henry Phipps had conquered for succumbing to his wiles . |
| 20 | You 've heard of talking to plants to boost their growth , but what about stroking them to keep pests away ? |
| 21 | While I was writing , I remembered what Vern — or was it his dad ? — had said about speaking to your dream . |
| 22 | She felt flustered when she remembered what Alain had said about going to Italy . |
| 23 | You 've got to according to what you think . |
| 24 | A first-year physics student told me that he had thought of transferring to an arts subject , maybe psychology , in the first few weeks , because : |
| 25 | He looked at me , as if I had talked of going to the North Pole . ’ |
| 26 | I 've thought of going to my GP about this , but when I run through what I 'd have to say in my mind . |
| 27 | To write off the ideas and conclusions which one has reached in order to allow an accommodation with other people 's expectations may mean getting rid of a conclusion which the manager had reached after listening to and observing other people 's experience . |
| 28 | He waited until the cloud had settled before returning to the keg to peer inside . |
| 29 | Some of the strength she had gained through coming to terms with the truth oozed out of her . |
| 30 | One of the things he had learned since coming to Egypt was that the country had its rhythms and that if you were going to get anywhere you had to work with them and not against them . |