Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Now she feels the time has come to hand over to someone else .
2 Mr Wood has helped to nurse back to health badgers injured on the road or found orphaned but he has never come across one which has been used for baiting .
3 The company has had to go back to its pre-poll tax database , known as the Historic Voters Roll .
4 That 's why Alex has had to go back to London
5 The buyer can include in his claim for damages , the amount of the damages he has had to pay out to his sub-purchaser for breach of contract , see Godley v. Perry ( paragraph 9–05 above ) .
6 The British surf scene has had to look back to its roots , to the old school , and the philosophy of the Badlands boys has returned to vogue .
7 THE FAMILY of Arthur Thompson , sen , has had to face up to many tragedies .
8 But Pound 's speaker , so far from naïve , has had to struggle through to that desired but unfamiliar nakedness ; and Pound 's verse enacts the struggle .
9 AEG has had to hand over to Deutsche Aerospace its lucrative aerospace and defence division , its second-largest unit .
10 Richmondshire District Council 's recreation committee has agreed to give up to £100 to urgent repairs being carried out at the memorial hall , Middleton Tyas , near Richmond .
11 Mirror Group has agreed to use up to £300 million of its profits over the next 10 to 20 years so that the pension fund , plundered by Mr Robert Maxwell , will be able to meet all its liabilities .
12 Exxon Corporation , the multi-national oil giant , has agreed to pay up to $1,100 million ( $1.1 billion ) in an out of court settlement over the 1989 Valdez oil spill .
13 The Association has agreed to revert back to Management .
14 Agriculture has learned to respond quickly to technical advances and has achieved greater increases in productivity over the last 25 years than any other industry .
15 So far I have discussed the different criminologies of the previous two centuries with little reference to the problem of the concept of ‘ crime ’ itself : Worse , I have sometimes used ‘ crime ’ and ‘ deviance ’ interchangeably — though I hope I have only done this where the argument has happened to apply equally to both .
16 This speech has now completely turned the play around and has begun to lead on to the tragedy at the end of it , Brutus , the nobleman 's , death .
17 The postal service in Oxfordshire has begun to get back to normal today , but not all postal workers are back , despite yesterday 's vote .
18 The problems stem from a high cost structure and an ambitious move into management consultancy that has failed to live up to expectations .
19 Without naming his new guru , the Zimbabwe-born batsman — who has failed to live up to the blaze of publicity which greeted his arrival on the Test scene in 1991 — revealed that his poor form in five-day games against Pakistan last summer led him to seek psychiatric advice .
20 Yet , so far , the Clinton administration has failed to reach out to Republicans .
21 While Chancellor Kohl 's CDU-CSU alliance holds 309 of the 652 seats , far more than its closest rivals , the Social Democrats , who have 239 , it could not govern without the support of Hans Dietrich-Genscher 's FDP — which is why Genscher has managed to hold on to the post of Foreign Minister for so long .
22 Since delivery only required one of us , I 'd undertaken to go down to Fraxilly while Mala stayed with the ship .
23 One of the boys was Charlie , who 'd bothered to turn up to school for the first time in weeks .
24 I 'd hoped to come on to Prague after that .
25 She 'd tried to hold on to the anger she 'd felt earlier , but it had slipped away from her , dissolving with the wine .
26 I 'd planned to go back to Australia when I 'd made enough .
27 He 'd planned to storm up to General Kopyion and demand to be told what the Justice Police were doing to prevent further bloodshed .
28 The Corporal stopped , ordering the boy who 'd fired to go back to the spot and engage the malais as they came down the road .
29 ‘ I 'd managed to hang on to it .
30 She secured her garage door and , having decided to walk round to the front of the building to find out what Naylor was so furious about , she turned around — and found she had no need to go anywhere .
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