Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Apart from the last 2 bleak and miserable years , where I 've only managed to get to about 10 games because of my new secret life as a student . ) |
| 2 | Leading me where I have always wanted to go yet never known how . |
| 3 | She has won her spurs in her role as Minister of Health , where she has frequently had to appear in place of her beleaguered former boss , William Waldegrave . |
| 4 | This can be so even where you have not had to shop around for a more favourable report . |
| 5 | Few staff actually felt involved , even in schools where the head thought that he or she had actively tried to promote staff participation . |
| 6 | A total of 40.7% of respondents chose their last holiday on the basis that they had done the same before and enjoyed it ; 19.7% went somewhere where they had always wanted to go ; and 17.9% went on a word-of-mouth recommendation . |
| 7 | Helping parents draw up these lists builds on the information they have gained from the assessment phase where they have already learned to specify the problem areas . |
| 8 | Unfortunately you find that no-one has ever bothered to produce the graphics before because they take too long to print out on the current office printer ! |
| 9 | Although I had not intended to work on her aura , my hands began to scan the energy field surrounding her physical body . |
| 10 | But it 's one that I 've already decided to put right . |
| 11 | she 's going over at half past eleven and she said to me if it 's not worth the money I 'm not changing and er , I shall tell him that I 've certainly got to go on the books you know |
| 12 | Then he smiled , as he looked fondly at Leith , and said softly , ‘ But I 'm sure there 's a lot about Leith that I 've still got to learn . ’ |
| 13 | and I 've re I have quite a high awareness about women 's position in society , but because of that I feel that I 've now come to reject the term feminism because erm I think it 's also harming the people who , you know , it 's harming the women that are holding on to that er , label because it is label and that is erm because it 's , because it 's a label it then it 's blocking er forms progress for women . |
| 14 | I mean I know through the summer holidays that I 've really got to get to work with him on his maths , likewise I know I 've got a lot of work to do myself for |
| 15 | I 'm thinking about marketing my services on quality and relating to customers in a way that I 'd just begun to think of before but now it 's come right to the front . |
| 16 | Now that I 'd definitely decided to welcome the baby , I 'd have to start planning with a bit more efficiency than in the past , when , so far as one could see , I had been working vaguely on the basis that God would provide ; and why the hell He should in a case like this was probably more than even the most devout believer could have told me . |
| 17 | The fact is that I had already begun to give serious consideration to the possibility of doing away with Dennis Parsons . |
| 18 | But I would wake up , startled and guilty , horrorstruck that I had somehow managed to allow myself to get out of control . |
| 19 | I thought that I had n't chosen to get married at all but that Syl had chosen to marry me , since it was time for him to marry and I offered no threat to the way and integrity of his life and character , and that my mother had chosen to see me wed because I was good for little else . |
| 20 | I sucked my thumb and mumbled that I had n't meant to do it . |
| 21 | I therefore wrote to express the hope that I had not appeared to expect him to intervene ; that I did not necessarily disagree with what he said ; and that my underlying feeling was that the Baldwin government , though apparently trying to get rid of a bad king , might damage the monarchy at a time when a great international crisis seemed to be upon us . |
| 22 | For example , some people are uncooperative — one specialist in community health refused to be interviewed because , I later discovered , she was angry that I had not gone to interview her first — whilst others are sometimes over-cooperative , extending one-hour interviews to three hours ! |
| 23 | I was glad that I had not attempted to plan the whole programme in advance , as the Workshop developed under its own momentum , using and Communicative Grammar of English as a text and ground-plan . |
| 24 | Remember that I had always intended to leave spare key with the Twills next door but never got round to it . |
| 25 | In one week I had been transformed into the two personae that I had always sworn to avoid : the preacher and the missionary . |
| 26 | Q I recently saw a fish in my local shop that I have just got to have . |
| 27 | And you will be pleased to hear that I have even managed to bring a bucket of ice to chill the wine . ’ |
| 28 | It was the person , the personality that I grew to be really good friends with , that I have now grown to love . ’ |
| 29 | While of course the whole business game involves doing better than most of your competitors , the attempt to diversify away from one 's basic business , which so much experience elsewhere has shown to be an extremely difficult operation , is a risk that I have always tried to avoid . |
| 30 | I am still dreaming of the white cotton lace bedspread that I have always promised to knit for my ‘ best friend ’ because I know that she had always wanted one . |