Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They believed I had to report to a camp near Dover . |
| 2 | From the look on her face you 'd think that I had confessed to a desire to murder her family and steal all her money . |
| 3 | Erm I had to go to a table like that which said square roots and I had to look up twenty |
| 4 | I had gone to a town about a hundred miles north of Rangoon and had spent Christmas night in a village seventeen miles away . |
| 5 | The telephone rang while I was busy explaining to Tony Crosland that I could not accept a further term of office at the Housing Corporation , since I had been appointed to the Mastership of University College , Oxford , but I had agreed to a request that I should at least stay for another year to see someone else in . |
| 6 | We were n't doing the hours that I 'd agreed to do , and Silvia and I had come to a sort of arrangement … ’ |
| 7 | I 've I 've written to a friend in in Anglesey |
| 8 | I do think there are problems and difficulties , I do n't think it will be easy , not least because we do n't have a shared morality and a shared consensus , on the objectives for the voluntary sector , but it is a set of concerns which we must address , er , and I believe that if , if I 've done nothing else today , I 've kicked off a debate , or I 've contributed to a debate which was already rolling , erm , and that we must address those difficulties , and try and find ways through them , because there are opportunities as well as threats in the current situation and I believe we have to look at all of those er , so that we can move into the nineteen nineties which I believe will be a very exciting period for the voluntary sector , and one which the voluntary sector should er , see as exciting , grab the opportunities and move forward . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've come to a decision , ’ he said . |
| 10 | No my my own view and it 's I I do n't know if I 've come to a view on the relative weight of those sorts of considerations er I I 'd need to think about it some more before I could come to a view on that . |
| 11 | I 've come to a lot of conclusions about myself within the last four months . |
| 12 | I 've come to a series of decisions . |
| 13 | I 've listened to a lot of interest to the people who 've been commenting about the future and the schools and the young children coming in . |
| 14 | I have to go to a cocktail party at the Library Association this evening , ’ he went on , ‘ so I 'm afraid I sha n't be able to be the ministering angel . |
| 15 | ‘ I have spoken to a lot of residents who feel very strongly that this sort of statement is irresponsible , ’ he said . |
| 16 | I have spoken to a number of engine conversion kit suppliers and the almost unanimous response has been ‘ ooooogh the 6 cyl , that 's a difficult conversion … it needs extensive mods to the bulkhead … or … the propshaft needs changing , the gearbox needs moving . |
| 17 | For Machu Picchu is the closest I have come to a Mecca , a once-in-my-lifetime destination and , like the route to Mecca , each Inca trail has deep and hidden roots in a life long before one pins Cuzco on the map . |
| 18 | ‘ It will be a real wrench to leave the club after eight years but I have got to a stage when I must now look at what is best for my future . ’ |
| 19 | The power plant could help dispose of the offal surplus which has gathered as a result of the BSE scare , which has led to a ban on the rendering of brains , spinal cords , spleens and tonsils into pet food or animal feed . |
| 20 | The local labour is mainly in small factories of 20–300 people which has led to a reputation for good relations between workers and managers . |
| 21 | However , the attempts to improve the position of the tenant have interfered with the market mechanism , which has led to a decline in the supply of accommodation on offer . |
| 22 | These policies have slashed manufacturing output and these policies have cut a massive two hundred and forty five million pound from the employment and youth training budgets for this year , which has led to a cut of eighty thousand places . |
| 23 | Some teachers in the county believe it 's this very concensus between Tories , Liberal Democrats and Labour which has led to a crisis in county education . |
| 24 | The house which had faded to a ghost with the years , but still lingered there , a lump of fog , on the edge of her mind . |
| 25 | The issue reminded many observers of the Recruit share trading scandal of late 1988 , which had led to the collapse of the government led by Noboru Takeshita [ see pp. 36463-64 ] , and which had led to a range of measures designed to tighten up on this kind of abuse . |
| 26 | It was also claimed that Mr Deans had been responsible for the non-payment of police bills which had led to a threat of police cover being withdrawn for home matches . |
| 27 | Longer-term factors which had led to a decline in the gold price were lack of demand because of the prolonged recession in the USA and the slowdown in activity in other major industrialized countries , a switch by investors from the gold market to financial markets , and a failure to limit production and thus reduce supplies ( particularly in South Africa , the world 's largest producer ) . |
| 28 | There is a story about an old man who was called in by a factory to fix their ancient boiler , which had ground to a halt . |
| 29 | He belonged to a family of immigrant Jews which had fled to a Glasgow tenement and a community of Yiddish-speakers within the city . |
| 30 | " Somebody 's gone to a lot of trouble to remove anything that might give a clue to his identity , " Redpath said . |