Example sentences of "they had [verb] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | To score runs they had to put bat to ball — a realisation which came all too late . |
| 2 | For the last hour they had done justice to Molly 's superb cooking . |
| 3 | Over two-thirds agreed that if they had caused damage to their own clothes at work , the company should not be liable for repairs . |
| 4 | And black dancers had gone in for contemporary or modern dance because they had felt ballet to be a white art form to be watched by white people . ’ |
| 5 | A representative of the illegal but tolerated Moslem Brotherhood said on June 9 that although the Brotherhood did not support political assassinations " the government and the media " shared responsibility for Fudah 's death since they had given space to " writers dedicated to attacking Islam " . |
| 6 | Both ignored the fact that yesterday they had said farewell to each other and a way of life . |
| 7 | The descriptions were perfect , even to George 's crooked thumb , but it was rumoured that they had fled north to Newcastle after spending some time in the Midlands . |
| 8 | Along the way they had paid tribute to a few likely progenitors with covers of Wire , Cheap Trick and Kraftwerk songs , acquired a growing fanbase and a rep for interesting humour . |
| 9 | They had reduced existence to the two secure havens of home and office . |
| 10 | Like Hamlet , they had come face to face with its essential horror and absurdity . |
| 11 | It was an inexorable social process and almost before the rest of society or history had noticed they had laid claim to the leisure hours of the millions . |