Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have written to Mrs on behalf of the Council expressing our sorrow and extending a message of support to her in her and her family at this sad time . |
| 2 | ‘ I have written to Joe about it , ’ Maureen said , ‘ but there has n't been time for a reply yet . ’ |
| 3 | This is as close as I have felt to Cambridgeshire for some considerable time . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I have to go to America on business . |
| 5 | We now have a general date for elections in nineteen ninety four and when that date is formally agreed , many sanctions will go and we 're already preparing because Cosatu and the South African Council of Churches believe that there should be a code for investments so that investments go to help uplift people and indeed tomorrow I have to go to Holland for exactly such a conference called by the World Council of Churches and the South African churches . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've told them I have to go to hospital for tests . ’ |
| 7 | I have to go to Dublin for the nearest indoor courts . |
| 8 | In a typically grandiose gesture , CEGB chairman Sir Walter Marshall said on television that if the inquiry rejected the board 's case on safety grounds , he would resign ‘ because it meant that the technical advice I have given to government in past years has been proved to be incorrect ’ . |
| 9 | I have no quarrel with the thesis , and considerable admiration for the accumulation of evidence , though what presumably were the chronic delays of publishing leave some of it a little dated , But I have to admit to irritation with the manner in which the material is presented . |
| 10 | Later having cut the ties and had a look at the will , he made another in which he repeated the legacy as follows : ‘ All the legacies I have left to people in the will which I have opened I want to be valid , and whatever is written in it . ’ |
| 11 | Erm yes and it 's , it 's funny thing I have n't sent things to the College with , with the other stuff that went out , but , er we have , I have spoken to Michael about College , yeah I mean . |
| 12 | Although I have mentioned to Kate of my association with Fiona , the two have never met . |
| 13 | Through counselling I have come to terms with the fact that the world and the people in it are n't perfect , and nor am I. |
| 14 | The princess told them : ‘ I have come to terms with this relationship a long time ago . |
| 15 | If getting to the last eight of the Scottish Cup makes it look as if I have taken to management like a duck to water , I would be telling lies if I said the job was easy . |
| 16 | Solicitors ' firms believe that the most important changes which have led to improvements in their efficiency are the introduction of new technology and better management systems |
| 17 | The survey , costing £85,000 and taking up to two years to complete , has been prompted by American studies which have led to calls for the banning of some chemicals . |
| 18 | The clinical and research developments which have led to changes in the official policy will now be described . |
| 19 | For that God has been conceived as male , and that biblical teaching which arose out of a patriarchal society has been held to be the revelation of God , must surely be seen to be the underlying facts of western culture which have led to discrimination against women . |
| 20 | Over the years it has produced a wide-ranging series of reports on abuses of power by the national brewers , many of which have led to action by central government . |
| 21 | But the big spend as the group sorts out its core operations has already meant an increase in borrowing which have risen to £21m at the end of September compared with £160m the year before . |
| 22 | : The IMF signs 98 agreements with developing countries , including all the big debtor countries which have come to Washington for help . |
| 23 | Geographically , Vietnam and Cuba are remote from the Soviet Union , and their ruling élites are cohesive entities which have come to power through their own efforts . |
| 24 | For Paul , that offering is made up of the lives of the many Gentiles who have turned to faith in God . |
| 25 | An especially important result of the establishment of both the HIDB and the WIIC is that at long last there are professional jobs in the Western Isles for at least some of those who have gone to university on the mainland and have previously had to stay there to work . |
| 26 | It is also the custom of certain groups who have migrated to Britain to pool resources between kin , either between people living in the same household or sometimes across households ( Anwar , 1985 , pp. 52–5 ; Brah , 1986 ) . |
| 27 | The same pattern certainly is found among people who have migrated to Britain from overseas since the end of the Second World War . |
| 28 | Caribbeans who have come to Britain from abroad have probably always brought with them their own distinctively Caribbean varieties of language ; yet it is only in the last two or three decades that educators and policy makers — and to some extent , the general public — have taken an interest in " Black English " ( also called Creole or Patois ) in Britain . |
| 29 | The community we serve is largely made up of families who have come to England from a rural district of Bangladesh called Sylhet . |
| 30 | On New Year 's Eve people in long evening dresses or in dinner jackets mingle in the streets of Funchal side by side with ‘ mountain men ’ in their woollen hats who have come to Funchal with their wives and children in the family 's lorry — which is often decorated with Christmas tree , paperchains and balloons . |