Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the look on her face you 'd think that I had confessed to a desire to murder her family and steal all her money . |
| 2 | I had gone to a town about a hundred miles north of Rangoon and had spent Christmas night in a village seventeen miles away . |
| 3 | The telephone rang while I was busy explaining to Tony Crosland that I could not accept a further term of office at the Housing Corporation , since I had been appointed to the Mastership of University College , Oxford , but I had agreed to a request that I should at least stay for another year to see someone else in . |
| 4 | We were n't doing the hours that I 'd agreed to do , and Silvia and I had come to a sort of arrangement … ’ |
| 5 | I 've I 've written to a friend in in Anglesey |
| 6 | I do think there are problems and difficulties , I do n't think it will be easy , not least because we do n't have a shared morality and a shared consensus , on the objectives for the voluntary sector , but it is a set of concerns which we must address , er , and I believe that if , if I 've done nothing else today , I 've kicked off a debate , or I 've contributed to a debate which was already rolling , erm , and that we must address those difficulties , and try and find ways through them , because there are opportunities as well as threats in the current situation and I believe we have to look at all of those er , so that we can move into the nineteen nineties which I believe will be a very exciting period for the voluntary sector , and one which the voluntary sector should er , see as exciting , grab the opportunities and move forward . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've come to a decision , ’ he said . |
| 8 | No my my own view and it 's I I do n't know if I 've come to a view on the relative weight of those sorts of considerations er I I 'd need to think about it some more before I could come to a view on that . |
| 9 | I 've come to a lot of conclusions about myself within the last four months . |
| 10 | I 've come to a series of decisions . |
| 11 | I 've listened to a lot of interest to the people who 've been commenting about the future and the schools and the young children coming in . |
| 12 | ‘ I have spoken to a lot of residents who feel very strongly that this sort of statement is irresponsible , ’ he said . |
| 13 | I have spoken to a number of engine conversion kit suppliers and the almost unanimous response has been ‘ ooooogh the 6 cyl , that 's a difficult conversion … it needs extensive mods to the bulkhead … or … the propshaft needs changing , the gearbox needs moving . |
| 14 | For Machu Picchu is the closest I have come to a Mecca , a once-in-my-lifetime destination and , like the route to Mecca , each Inca trail has deep and hidden roots in a life long before one pins Cuzco on the map . |
| 15 | ‘ It will be a real wrench to leave the club after eight years but I have got to a stage when I must now look at what is best for my future . ’ |
| 16 | Now she has gone to a post at Hendon responsible for training new recruits . |
| 17 | Henry , it transpires , is very much the protege of Jane whose negative experiences of residential living have combined with a complex of personal problems and have generated an anger that she has tempered to a cause . |
| 18 | And she has agreed to a cow at last , next week , I must — ’ |
| 19 | His wife Margaret had n't been there ; she 'd gone to a meeting of her rock garden club . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've gone to a lot of trouble , ’ he said , opening it out . |
| 21 | You 've gone to a lot of trouble . ’ |
| 22 | But you 've agreed to a budget that is less than the capping level . |
| 23 | You 've come to a number of those I guess ? |
| 24 | ‘ I feel very angry that you 've come to a conclusion about me without discussing the matter with me . ’ |
| 25 | Breathless , she slowed to a walk through the lemon groves near the complex , and by the time she reached Monte Samana she had slowed to a snail 's pace . |
| 26 | However , on the advice of an acquaintance , she had gone to a clinic in Pennsylvania : she retired there periodically now . |
| 27 | His mother was not yet in ; presumably she had gone to a party . |
| 28 | But today she had come to a decision , she would tell Craig Grenfell to leave her house , his presence was beginning to disturb her , disrupt her life . |
| 29 | She ‘ knew ’ that ‘ she had come to a place at the end of the world ’ , a backwater where there was no action at all . |
| 30 | School had been tiring at first on transfer but she had soon got used to it : originally she had belonged to a number of clubs in the early day ( Thursday ) when all such activities take place , but now preferred to go home early . |