Example sentences of "have [vb pp] to the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We all feared this might happen and now it has come to the worst , ’ said one church-goer arriving for the service . |
| 2 | The West 's manifest unwillingness to use force against the Bosnian Serbs to get them to accept this plan has contributed to the latest rejection that the plan has suffered , the resounding No delivered by more than nine out of ten Bosnian Serb voters in last weekend 's referendum . |
| 3 | But for all of the work he has carried out , Barlow Clowes has proved to the largest and most complex in the office 's 22 year history . |
| 4 | A six-year-old row between two Paris dealers over a FFr70 million profit made from the sale of Picasso 's 1903 masterpiece ‘ La Celestine ’ has gone to the highest legal resort after the appeal court in France , the Cour de Cassation , and looks set to last at least another twelve months . |
| 5 | Although most have gained , half of the total giveaway in terms of benefits and tax reductions has gone to the richest 10 per cent of households . |
| 6 | ‘ If only it had been me I would have flown to the highest tree where they could n't catch me and then , and then into the sky to find the wind . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We 've come to the best club in the country and won . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've come to the best club in the country and won . |
| 9 | Those who defended the idea were supporters of the evolutionary hypothesis who saw the linear arrangement as the ladder by which life had ascended to the highest form , humankind . |
| 10 | It occurred to her hazily that her own condition was like that of a bulb she had once seen when the power had been suddenly cut down and the light had dimmed to the faintest red glow in the filament . |
| 11 | He cared enough about his loathsome , drunken and violent third wife , Mayo Methot , not to leave her until he knew she had gone to the furthest extremes to try and cure herself of the alcoholism that threatened to ruin both their lives . |
| 12 | Half an hour previously , Captive Audience had run to the best of his ability in the lads ' race , plugging on one-paced up the Sandown hill to take second place . |
| 13 | Then she saw that , in her haste to leave the hall , she had fled to the nearest exit , which opened on to a passage running along the side of the great-room . |
| 14 | His gaze had contracted to the merest topaz thread in a face where sudden bleakness polished his hard cheekbones to a dull , luminescent ivory . |
| 15 | I had drifted into caddying , much to the disgust of my father who had other ideas about careers for his eldest son and heir whom he had sent to the best public school he could afford ( a slightly philistine , second-division one near Brighton ) and supported through university ( Sussex-by-the-Sea ) . |
| 16 | Its yellow distemper had faded to the palest sulphur over the years . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , unemployment figures have risen to the highest level for more than five years . |
| 18 | In so doing , we have ensured to the best of our ability that all financial information is not misleading in any material respect . |
| 19 | This has meant that underground aquifers , which supply much of the water requirements of the south-east , have shrunk to the lowest level on record . |