Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a long time it has been content with this unchanging splendour but more recently it has treated itself to a quartier in the most modern style , complete with a magnificent new concert hall , the Corum ( which unfortunately appears to have been built on ground that it is less than stable ) . |
| 2 | Despite the retirement of coaching team-mates Jim Telfer and Derrick Grand after the recent World Cup , Ian McGeechan has committed himself to a further term as Scotland 's principal coach . |
| 3 | Labour has committed itself to a wide range of civil-liberties legislation and constitutional reform when it returns to government , to counter what its Deputy Leader , Mr Hattersley , has described as the vulnerability of traditional freedoms to the dual threat of ‘ legal restriction and a cynical partnership between Government and private enterprise ’ . |
| 4 | What the procedure does not permit is an exploration of alternative approaches , an understanding of the views of outside groups ( unless they think it worth briefing MPs ) and there is no scope for public opinion to form and react before the government has committed itself to a definite approach to the problem . |
| 5 | We know perfectly well that the Labour party has committed itself to an additional £35,000 million of public spending and no capping on local authority expenditure . |
| 6 | This has committed it to an inevitable struggle with the Palestinians for control of policy on the Palestine question and , by extension , for control of Jordan itself . |
| 7 | Deuce , a pimp , has added him to a clutch of boys he is taking to a hotel . |
| 8 | It was me who cut her ropes and killed the men aboard her , and it 's me who has sailed her to a place where you 'll never find her . |
| 9 | Despite the shock that he must have felt as he drove to what he expected to be his hangar on the morning after , he has shown himself to a man of warm priorities : ‘ People and their problems are more important than airplanes , ’ he has commented . |
| 10 | She 's bitterley disappointed that the council has sold it to a local businessman who wants to use the premises to repair binoculars . |
| 11 | One research scientist , a friend of mine said that the setting up of a particularly apt experiment has lead him to a sense of the beautiful . |
| 12 | ‘ I would ask you to stay longer , but His Majesty the King has invited me to a masque at Richmond . ’ |
| 13 | " Who has invited you to a dance ? " |
| 14 | Their desperate League form this season has consigned them to a similar predicament , while Chelsea are on the crest of a wave . |
| 15 | Perhaps racism has conditioned us to a greater extent than we expected . |
| 16 | Steady progress over the last four decades has brought us to a point where much of what happens in primary education is a source of pride . |
| 17 | Russian , ultimately , has brought us to a similar endeavour . |
| 18 | Shelford was in Wales last October to watch Neath beat Toulouse , a result which has led him to a conclusion similar to Wyllie 's : ‘ From the performance Neath put on that night , Welsh rugby is in pretty healthy hands . ’ |
| 19 | This passion for haute cuisine has led him to an involvement with the restaurant industry itself . |
| 20 | I am , by nature , one of the latter , but I yearn to be one of the former , and many years of travelling has led me to a kind of uneasy compromise . |
| 21 | Iii case this book should be read by some fundamentalist searching for straws to prop up his prejudices , let me state categorically that all my experience ( such as it is ) has led me to an unqualified acceptance of evolution by natural selection as a sufficient explanation for what I have seen in the fossil record . |
| 22 | In 1931 he stated : the moment the responsibilities of any community , particularly in the field of social and economic questions , are shifted from any part of the nation to Washington , then that community has subjected itself to a remote bureaucracy . |
| 23 | At the opposite extreme , an English philosopher has tamed it to a position of common-sense moderation : |
| 24 | This time a secretary answered , saying that as her employer ‘ has a large backlog of books to read , he found the addition of another one rather an embarrassment … he has passed it to a friend in a London hospital . ’ |
| 25 | Now as the city of Manchester goes all out to win the race to host the Olympic games … our own town of Banbury has beaten them to a gold medal … the local boatbuilding firm of Laser will be racing at the next Olympics and to celebrate they 're having a water sports week |
| 26 | This is particularly important if a ‘ traditional ’ training has kept them to a limited understanding and repertoire . |
| 27 | He reminded those who felt such concern that " since the war , Japan has dedicated itself to a purely defensive posture under our peace constitution and vowed never again to become a military power such as might pose a threat to other countries " . |
| 28 | I 'd got my toast and strawberry jam , I 'd treated myself to a doughnut as well , and I 'd got my bag and my money and my dreams back . |
| 29 | ‘ You might cook him a wonderful pie and then you 'd find he 'd given it to a drunken beggar , and no matter how kind you thought him after a while you 'd want to kill him . |
| 30 | He 'd got it to an art — |