Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ask Tor , who has come across to see how I am coping , if this is normal , a guarded , off-the-cuff way of informing him that I am shit-scared and would like the weather to change . |
| 2 | As well as acting he has moved also to take on Artistic Directorship of his own company , Compass . |
| 3 | And Christopher Haskins , Northern 's chairman , has moved quickly to tie up milk supplies after the demise of the MMB . |
| 4 | However , a supply of such posters has proved hard to locate so Trevor would be delighted to hear from any supplier or reader who might be able to suggest a source or help in some way . |
| 5 | Whenever someone has been ill in hospital and has recovered sufficiently to go home , usually the first question asked is ‘ Have you got a family ? ’ . |
| 6 | This time Mr Moran has stepped forward to shoulder even greater responsibility while Mr Souness recovers from a heart operation that will keep him out of the manager 's chair for the rest of the season . |
| 7 | Charles , 20 , disappeared while trekking in Canada three years ago , and Mrs Allan has campaigned tirelessly to find out what happened to him . |
| 8 | Andrea Doyle , who became the tour 's new executive director last August , has worked furiously to build up the circuit . |
| 9 | Since the 1950s Japan has worked hard to build up contacts with the region , both economically and politically . |
| 10 | But he has been the Labour Party 's chosen candidate for almost two years and in that time he has worked hard to build up a high profile , assiduously interpreting official figures on unemployment , training and hospital waiting lists as well as taking on directors of newly-privatised monopolies . |
| 11 | Alongside the race equality unit , Southwark SSD has worked hard to build up a representative mailing list of funded and unfunded bodies , says Wright . |
| 12 | In recent years , however , a dramatic change in emphasis has begun slowly to come about . |
| 13 | Subsequent experimental work has failed both to clarify fully the exact mechanisms involved in frost weathering and to define precisely the climatic conditions under which the process is likely be most effective . |
| 14 | She 'd had to come here to clear up Elise 's affairs , taking a week 's holiday from her London job . |
| 15 | Tall and powerful , he is naturally an attacking batsman who loves to play his shots , and his Test average has no doubt suffered from having often had to play defensively to shore up the innings . |
| 16 | Sue says she 's beaten all the players above her in the world rankings and will have to work harder to make up the difference . |
| 17 | It was wrong to leave her family in the first place , wrong , having come here to go on leading the life she did . ’ |
| 18 | Anna had no need to be besought , for she had done a quick sum on the back of her child benefit book , and had worked out that , if Flora could start at St Saviour 's in the summer term , she would have earned enough to put down at least £100 towards the first term 's fees . |
| 19 | As Claud Mullins , a London magistrate , commented on the plight of separated women in 1935 : ‘ Day by day as I watch the women who come into court on summonses for arrears — probably the least attractive of all Police Court work — I sometimes wonder whether after all many of them would not have done better to put up with the ills they had , rather than to have placed their faith in court orders ’ . |
| 20 | She 'd have done better to snap back at him the way he 'd snapped at her ! |
| 21 | He knew perfectly well that they were not very good prizes and that he would have done better to lay out his money at Woolworth 's , but he did not wish to hear Emmie telling him so . |
| 22 | George could have laughed aloud to think how , for years , their father had been ashamed of Tamar , but now he was proud to claim kinship . |
| 23 | ‘ I want to talk to you , ’ she managed firmly , having to walk fast to keep up with him . |
| 24 | He really was the most annoying , irritating man she had ever met , and if it had n't been for the fact that she knew he would carry out his threat and have her sacked she would have refused point-blank to go tonight . |
| 25 | I might have revived enough to struggle out , once he was gone . ’ |
| 26 | Whatever John 's mother may have thought about his likely lack of application when he wanted to study music , once he decided to learn ballet he took it seriously and must have worked hard to make up for a late start . |
| 27 | ‘ You must have studied hard to get where you are today , starting up your own company . |
| 28 | You only had to go abroad to see how we were regarded . |
| 29 | You 've come here to take up with Sergius ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You said your name was Millet … you said that you had come here to find out more about our son . ’ |