Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary says now : ‘ Accessing my past lives has been of great benefit and I 'm sure that if I 'd gone to an ordinary therapist , nothing would have been sorted out . ’ |
| 2 | I had said to a promising-looking man behind a counter , but it seems I should have said ‘ Cup of tea ’ and left it at that , for he put his hands on his hips and shouted , ‘ What 's stopping you ? ’ |
| 3 | But this premise was there at that time and by oh I had to go to a great extent on a number of visits and they er granted it me on compassionate grounds and there 's er I was only looking in the back of there the other day and there 's one there now . |
| 4 | Earlier , I had spoken to a Uruguayan woman and her boyfriend . |
| 5 | I think I should add very shortly that having considered the many authorities cited , even if I had come to a different conclusion on the issue about consideration , I would have come to the same decision adverse to the owners on the question whether the payments were made voluntarily in the sense of being made to close the transaction . |
| 6 | I 've come to a tremendous decision today . |
| 7 | ‘ You see , ’ the chief inspector went on , ‘ I 've come to a dead end . ’ |
| 8 | I feel I 've come to a full stop and so does Toby . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've spoken to a good few people who are very annoyed . ’ |
| 10 | He greeted her calmly and as he turned the ignition key he said , ‘ I have to see to a young leopard and treat the hippo , who , they tell me , is a bit off colour . |
| 11 | Sloman ( 1978 ) straightforwardly argues for a conscious module or sub-part view , of just the sort I have opposed to a program-level view . |
| 12 | I have appointed to a new post — the director general of resettlement — Major-General Burden who has returned from the British Army on the Rhine . |
| 13 | Dry batteries for fencer units are outrageously expensive , so I have resorted to an old tractor battery , trickle-charged by a windmill made from a bicycle wheel with its dynamo hub : it cost nothing and worked without trouble for a year at a stretch . |
| 14 | Since the start of the project I have spoken to a large number of disabled people who often begin by describing their daytime occupation or the type of work they would like to do . |
| 15 | I tell him I am a writer and that I was robbed in Cuzco Airport and lost camera , films and all my writing , so I have come to a tranquil place to try to remember . |
| 16 | Maybe I have succeeded to a small extent , but there 's still plenty I want to know . |
| 17 | I do n't think so she 's erm slow , she 's , she 's like erm , she has to go to a special school |
| 18 | But she heard herself saying , still in shrewish style , that on the contrary there was n't any time in the morning , that she had to go to a psychoanalytical conference in the Metropole Hotel with a bunch of Japanese in the morning , that she wanted to talk now , that he could n't just announce that he wanted to get divorced and then decide he was too tired to talk about it . |
| 19 | She had gone to a convalescent home in Bournemouth . |
| 20 | After leaving the letter in a drawer she had gone to a nearby town and booked in at a hotel . |
| 21 | Even so , she had to admit to a sneaking sense of relief when Luke left the office just after twelve for a business luncheon ; despite her defiance , she preferred that he did n't see her cross the road to the wine bar at one o'clock . |
| 22 | She told me that the previous year she had confided to an American friend in Rome that the two people who most fascinated her in the world were Albert Schweitzer and Herbert von Karajan ; and a year later she was sitting in an empty hall with Walter Legge , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , and Herbert von Karajan listening to a private recital on the organ by Albert Schweitzer . |
| 23 | If she had come to a pitiful and desperate end , this woman for one would not be sorry . |
| 24 | She had come to an unhappy house , that was clear . |
| 25 | Say you had to go to a dental appointment . |
| 26 | The cost of photocopying can mount up if you have to go to a local shop and pay several pence a sheet , whereas there are very likely to be local supporters who have photocopiers and are willing to run off a hundred copies at no charge . |
| 27 | I do n't know how much the discount is for each game , or wether you have to go to a special members area which probably costs more than without vouchers anyway . |
| 28 | ‘ I would have said what I have if we 'd gone to a fun-fair , ’ said Helen . |
| 29 | Now we 've gone to a blue screen . |
| 30 | John Hancock , executive design engineer for the Engines Group division of Cosworth , said the engine received a lot of attention at the show in Detroit : ‘ We 've talked to a wide range of people who might want to use it , or derivatives of it , ’ he said . |