Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Confident in our own superiority over the rest of the animal kingdom , it has rarely occurred to us to question how other creatures perceive the world . |
| 2 | Tretyakov Director Yuriy Korolev confirmed the idea of construction with him , and now Yeltsin has effectively seen to it that the project is carried out . |
| 3 | But the behaviour of Reverend Prentice has only added to his anguish . |
| 4 | Similarly , the attempt to remove barriers to investment has merely led to their redistribution , for instead of paying rates inside Enterprise Zones firms pay higher rents and property prices ( Erikson and Syms , 1986 ) . |
| 5 | The king has prudently deferred to them . |
| 6 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 7 | For the Council , the creation of the new institutions has greatly added to its work , while for the colleges the rigours of course submission and CNAA validation procedures have , in some cases , been traumatic . |
| 8 | We have already seen that it leaves unexplained one prominent feature of judicial practice — the attitude judges take toward statutes and precedents in hard cases — except on the awkward hypothesis that this practice is designed to deceive the public , in which case the public has not consented to it . |
| 9 | I 'm sure that he has not said to you that you can do work other than your religious studies at the moment , so that 's what you should be doing but you say he has and we will check it later . |
| 10 | But success has not gone to his head . |
| 11 | Developments in safety after that time will not make the producer liable if his product has not conformed to them . |
| 12 | Having listened to the arguments of my Hon. Friends I do not know why the Minister has not leapt to his feet to say that he accepts the new clause . |
| 13 | The owners feel spurned , wondering why their cat has not come to them for help when it feels seriously ill . |
| 14 | Anyway , he has not spoken to me all day . ’ |
| 15 | Mr has not spoken to me about this |
| 16 | ‘ I heard from a third party that Billy Bingham had left me out because of indiscipline , but there was nothing said at the time and he has not spoken to me since . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I know Duff has spoken to Lennox 's American promoter Dan Duva , but he has not spoken to anybody directly involved with Lennox 's career in Britain . ’ |
| 18 | Former teacher Mrs Adams , 38 , has not spoken to anyone since Tuesday 's tragedy . |
| 19 | ‘ That game will be very much on our minds , ’ admitted Phillips , who has not added to his 21 Wales caps since . |
| 20 | The underlying attitude is perhaps that most people accept mentally handicapped people and are sympathetic towards them , but remain inwardly glad that it has not happened to them or to their children — ‘ there but for the grace of God , go I. ’ They also continue to believe the many myths surrounding the handicapped which have been passed on for decades . |
| 21 | The Rev Bill Harper has championed the cause of the 260 pensioners involved , but is disappointed that the Prime Minister has not replied to his letter pleading for help . |
| 22 | Rev Bill Harper , from Richmond , has championed the cause of the 260 pensioners in doomed homes but is disappointed the Prime Minister has not replied to his letter . |
| 23 | She is reading a letter she has just written to her parents . ] |
| 24 | Thanks and I 'll just outline the background to the figures that has just presented to you . |
| 25 | After Sullivan left , he talk to Iranians who had come to the palace to see him , He said to the in wonderment , " Do you know what Sullivan has just said to me ? |
| 26 | ‘ Your father ’ , he said to me in a kind of sob , ‘ has just appeared to me in this garden ! ’ |
| 27 | It has just come to me . |
| 28 | I think the thing that occurs to me , erm , they do n't always know , erm , what has just happened to you . |
| 29 | A ridiculous thought has just occurred to him . |
| 30 | Ralph Davies has already complained to his Euro MP about French tactics . |