Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] have [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You had deliberately led me to believe that you 'd picked up a stranger in Bruges , and naturally I had assumed him to be a Belgian . ’ |
| 2 | come down you 've got nothing to . |
| 3 | He too , it seemed in his more envious moments , could easily have become an officer and a gentleman , if only his father had been as wealthy as Dysart 's , if only he had applied himself to his studies at Commonweal , if only … . |
| 4 | So he 's lent it to me . |
| 5 | But once I 'd given them to him I never saw them again so I imagine he must have burnt them . |
| 6 | And once she 'd given herself to him , she 'd stay with him , one way or another . |
| 7 | I had never used the word malai in her hearing ; now I 'd applied it to her . |
| 8 | He had n't been there that morning and now she had run him to earth in the café . |
| 9 | She would miss the two dogs now she had returned them to their home . |
| 10 | He was roller-coasting towards a high-rise career and now they had sent him to this stinking backwater to test further his resolve and capability . |
| 11 | I 've seen her for a few minutes , but now they 've taken her to be X-rayed . |
| 12 | I mean now he 's given it to granddad . |
| 13 | Before that night was out he had surrendered himself to Christ . |
| 14 | well I 've given it to the birds in the past when I 've had |
| 15 | lots of people think well I 've got them to school that 's it then no more children |
| 16 | These are catalogued in um well I 've referenced it to Bartman 1990 but you 'll see more about this erm in , let me see , there 's Dennis Howitt 's book concerning psychology which has a chapter about erm child sex abuse in it and there 's also a book that the library 's got called Child Abuse Errors by Dennis Howitt as well erm which has go deals with some of these these issues and arguments too . |
| 17 | Well I 've known anyone to be five years and no use whatsoever . |
| 18 | I can look back with pride on recalling how well I had adapted myself to this trade , and all aspects involved . |
| 19 | Underneath he 'd expected her to be hard and dry , but she was very soft and moist . |
| 20 | Then I had to take him to a big detached house divided into flats . |
| 21 | At the very least I had expected him to be physically frail and mentally chastened ; a boy worn out by his long addiction and frightened of the criminal charges that hung over him , but instead he came out of the limo and down the dock with the frisky energy of a puppy . |
| 22 | And then you have to explain it to the person opposite you , or a long distance phone call , and say how you , , and this , because there was a colour done what I 've said , he said my colour 's completely different , and you 've propose all those colour bits , but |
| 23 | Technical yeah the technical people but you have to ensure do n't you that with with your audience that you understand who they are but if you do n't then you have to keep it to a common denominator . |
| 24 | But , but once we 've discus defined who 's gon na do what within the quality systems that , then we 've got something to , to make a start from . |
| 25 | When at 10.45am we had resigned ourselves to a day of swimming and sunbathing a farmer pulled up and asked , in German , if we were waiting for him . |
| 26 | It was also he who told me of the Great Ones , ’ he went on with a faraway look , ‘ and how they had chosen us to be saved to do this . ’ |
| 27 | And those long gentle lines of the dip-slope of the Cotswolds , those misty uplands of the sheep-grey oolite , how they have lent themselves to the villainous requirements of the new age ! |
| 28 | How it had shrivelled her to the point of annihilation . |
| 29 | Earlier he had driven her to two tennis clubs to discuss membership . |
| 30 | Then he had steered her to a chair , rather than the sofa , which would probably have provoked a new attack of ‘ imagination ’ . |