Example sentences of "have [verb] to [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it really ? on the top there D d cos I suppose Amber has to go to school on Saturdays , does n't she ? |
| 2 | As university funding has come to hinge on publication , this has been encouraged for its own sake . |
| 3 | She is the sisters ' friend and mine , too , she has come to tea on my birthday . |
| 4 | ‘ I would have gone to law on the terms of my father 's will . ’ |
| 5 | Along with many a public body that felt pushed around by the Tories , the BBC must have gone to bed on April 8 with dreams of a quieter life on the night ; already swinging , as it were , in the hammock slung for them by a hung parliament . |
| 6 | It makes sense that they would really have gone to town on the modifications . ’ |
| 7 | Those who accuse Napoleon III of having gone to war on a frivolous pretext , that of siding with the Latin Catholic monks against the Greek Orthodox monks in this dispute , miss the point . |
| 8 | Eanfrith and Osric are said by Bede to have reverted to paganism on their accession , but it may be that Paulinus and the queen did not take flight immediately upon the death of Eadwine but only on the death of Osric . |
| 9 | The current warm-weather soundtrack of choice for discerning numbskulls is Ugly Kid Joe , a quartet of stoned surfers who 've risen to power on the Young Dumb Fun ticket in a way that critically-defied combos like The Ramones never managed . |
| 10 | No matter what he and Bernice had been through , she knew in her heart of hearts that his guilt over what he had done to Ace on Heaven — and before — was a weakness : a button which would always work to throw him off balance when pressed . |
| 11 | Two pieces of steel had been fixed in vices and the two men had set to work on them simultaneously . |
| 12 | In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries those who had climbed to prosperity on the back of the slave trade were regularly leaving property and assets worth anything between £16,000 and £1 million . |
| 13 | This is what he had to say to Parliament on 20 May 1992 : |
| 14 | The Australian RSPCA has called for immediate reforms to animal protection laws after discovering 10,000 sheep had starved to death on a farm in south-western New South Wales . |
| 15 | The bonus each policyholder will actually get will depend on the reversionary ( or annual ) bonuses they have received to date on the with-profits element of their policies and will probably be paid out as part of the 1993 bonus distribution in February or March 1994 . |
| 16 | The television puppets from Sesame Street have come to life on stage . |
| 17 | Many manufacturers have come to grief on the belief that technical solutions can be bought pre-packaged . |
| 18 | It 's got to dad on it . |
| 19 | Both the nilgai and the four-horned antelope were originally Indian woodland species that have adapted to life on the plains . |
| 20 | An especially important result of the establishment of both the HIDB and the WIIC is that at long last there are professional jobs in the Western Isles for at least some of those who have gone to university on the mainland and have previously had to stay there to work . |
| 21 | Discussions between the FDA , the Japanese Ministry of Welfare and Health and the EC have led to agreement on proposals to avoid duplication of clinical trials on humans and reduce unnecessary animal testing . |
| 22 | I 'm sorry mummy had to rush us so much this morning it 's just when we 're in a rush we have to get to school on time you see , it 's a bit rotten when you 're only three is n't it ? |
| 23 | It is impossible to think of Aragorn as irretrievably damned for his ignorance of Christianity ( though it is a view some have tried to foist on Beowulf ) . |
| 24 | We need only recognize that history is a method with no distinct object corresponding to it to reject the equivalence between the notion of history and the notion of humanity which some have tried to foist on us with the unavowed aim of making historicity the last refuge of a transcendental humanism : as if men could regain the illusion of liberty on the plane of the ‘ we ’ merely by giving up the ‘ I 's that are too obviously wanting in consistency . |
| 25 | Children have choked to death on pen-tops , so make sure any tops have air holes . |