Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rise of public concern about the environment has done most to hasten a realisation among Conservatives that Thatcherism has its limitations . |
| 2 | Throughout , Mr Patten has sought unsuccessfully to convince a largely sceptical , and at times hostile , media that the Tories can come from behind in the polls to win tomorrow . |
| 3 | Despite his paucity of years , he has experienced enough to fill a lifetime . |
| 4 | Receiving 81% on its initial release , I do n't feel that it has aged enough to warrant a change in mark . |
| 5 | If it were n't for his days at the mucky end of the trade , he would never have earned enough to buy a house and he would n't have met Raksha who had been doing a bit of topless work to supplement her salary as a nurse . |
| 6 | He would have done better to hoard a fast , independent ship with good signalling equipment , for on the Queen Elizabeth , which had been given tasks of her own , he became a virtual prisoner , unable to respond to events or give directions . |
| 7 | Once , she would have died just to hear a kind word . |
| 8 | Some visiting aircraft engineers having arrived just to collect a specific part , spend hours just browsing through the stock . |
| 9 | He himself would have gone anywhere to see a set of tack of strange cut or history . |
| 10 | ANDY ROXBURGH may have tried manfully to build a protective shield against hype around Duncan Ferguson yesterday but Dundee United 's forward will play for Scotland against Portugal in next month 's World Cup qualifying tie for one simple reason — there is no-one better . |
| 11 | Becker 's case was notable because he was captured by the widely-circulated photographs , but he argued that he had intended only to fire a warning shot . |
| 12 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |
| 13 | Getting no response , she went on a shade breathlessly , ‘ I 've come here to do a catalogue raisonné , and help make the arrangements for mounting an exhibition of his sculpture . ’ |
| 14 | I 've come here to do a job I very much want to do , but I refuse to stay and … ’ |
| 15 | Chain-stores and industries may take full-page advertisements in newspapers to proclaim their greenness , but no millionaire had come forward to offer a share of his eco-sound profits . |
| 16 | They had come together to attend a major seminar on the development of an independent and pluralistic African press , held in Windhoek , Namibia , 29 April — 5 May . |
| 17 | These people — ordinary working-class folk like me — had come together to celebrate a gay relationship and to wish it success and happiness . |
| 18 | One morning after breakfast and a prolonged peering into the mirror , Arty broke and screamed at Phil , who had come across to borrow a newspaper . |
| 19 | Although the Security Council had voted unanimously to send a mission to investigate the killings , this had been frustrated by the Israeli government 's refusal to co-operate . |
| 20 | reported that the Authority had met once to discuss a complaint regarding a practical examination . |
| 21 | It was this inability to up the run rate that coach Jim Love blamed for the defeat , though it has to be said that Storie had done well to repair a bad start when the Scots lost both openers , Bruce Patterson and Iain Philip , on 17 . |
| 22 | Under Wolff 's chairmanship from 1876 , the firm had grown quickly to become a serious competitor of the Clyde-based Gourock Ropework Company , the largest rope-makers in the world . |
| 23 | In November 1970 the CNAA was informed that the NCDAD had written formally to request a joint meeting to explore ‘ interrelationships ’ . |
| 24 | She had saved enough to buy a length of material in the market , but by the time she had enough money from her wages to pay a dressmaker , the summer would be over . |
| 25 | Rory had decided early to make a story out of sex , to lift it from the dark and violent mystery that he suspected had lain between his parents . |
| 26 | They 've got together to form a barter scheme , using a special currency which allows them to work for each other without REAL money changing hands . |
| 27 | Mr Crosby wanted to take them back on the pitch but was prevented from doing so by police , who had acted quickly to prevent a pitch invasion when Byrne headed Sunderland into a 35th-minute lead . |
| 28 | Friends of the dead man , seventy year-old Jim Eggleton , had got together to offer a ten thousand pound reward to find the killer . |
| 29 | He was sentenced to two years in prison , and was ordered to pay back to the state several thousand Swiss francs which he had used illegally to arrange a place at a Swiss university for Zhivkov 's grandson [ see p. 38017 ] . |
| 30 | And since they 've refused repeatedly to have a public inquiry into what is going on there we 're not certain of the safety of what 's coming out . |