Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | You see we divide our time between London and Cornwall and I 'd stayed up late to watch the film with only one light burning . |
2 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
3 | Angie Bowie : ‘ The Christmas before recording ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , I had flown back home to see my parents . |
4 | The robe had tripped me each time I had stooped low enough to exert sufficient force , so I had taken it off . |
5 | Like an actor in a Monty Python sketch , I suddenly fiddled with my fingers as though checking my nails and said , ‘ You 'd better get away , the police are coming ’ — as if I had run up specially to tell him . |
6 | With such scenes as these continually around me , is it surprising that I should have entertained the idea of collecting examples of the indigenous Mammals of a country whose ornithological productions I had gone out expressly to investigate ? … ’ |
7 | In the end I had got just enough to make the short film , but it did n't tell the story I had hoped to tell , and I was angered by my subject 's persecution — by the way the whole species was treated . |
8 | ‘ I guess I 've had long enough to accept it . |
9 | ‘ I 've had quite enough to drink , ’ she said , ‘ without you rotating like a top all night . |
10 | I 've come here specailly to join Cromwell 's forces . |
11 | Definitely , yes , I would say like I 've spoke to Brian Horton on Sunday and he more or less said that it 's er Oxford United , fourth position in the league , let's hope so like you know , they are like , and I 've come here maybe to help get them in a better position . |
12 | I have seen enough already to know that my work on Christabel must be seriously altered in the light of what you have in these letters — I would n't be happy going on without taking them into account — and that must be true of Dr Michell 's work on Ash too , just as true . ’ |
13 | The truth is , I have had only enough to permit me to drown my sorrows . ’ |
14 | I what I have come here today to do is is in the matters that we 're discussing , to take out any commitment to an outer northern . |
15 | I have come here today to call to mind our brothers and sisters who have special needs/who are mentally handicapped . |
16 | The underground economy in every socialist state , however , has always been resolutely capitalist , and so my friend Kurowski and I have come here tonight to find out how the world 's oldest profession is adjusting to the new economic realities . |
17 | Oh please , thought Grainne , please let it be that , for I have come so far to find it . |
18 | Yet this is also the government which has fought most ruthlessly to bring EuroDisneyland to Marne la Vallee in the early 1990s . |
19 | Over 400 food premises which have failed so far to register with Langbaurgh Council could face heavy fines unless they do so by April 3 . |
20 | " They have a first class officer who has leant over backwards to establish a low profile in dealing with immigrants . " |
21 | Deep down she knew that she should apologise for what she had said , but she 'd had enough today to last her a lifetime ! |
22 | Well , she 'd simply have to find the strength within herself to resist that power , she decided grimly , rising to her feet and reaching for the long black dress she 'd laid out earlier to change into . |
23 | Would she have searched so ardently to find that patch of dull revealing blankness ? |
24 | I 'd like to pay a tribute to the courage of our people there , both the indigenous er workers for the fund and the ex-pats who 've gone out there to lead that work . |
25 | Publicity for homelessness was part of the business and I know one lad said he 'd only got two pounds of sponsorship and er I thought well you 've you 've done rather well to get two quid . |
26 | Yes , there must be be a reason and as I 'm sure , I mean like like the objective , and then what you can do at this stage in the design process is once you 've got the objective then you select those themes or ideas from your what you 've done just now to support that objective , so that when you come up my objective is to convince you or my objective is to inform you then the information that you 're going to give out supports that objective . |
27 | Mm mm , you 've done well then to get that one |
28 | You 've done extraordinarily well to get on to it at all . ’ |
29 | ‘ You 've done very well to reach your present level . |
30 | No you 've done very well to survive as well you have had a |