Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] have [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where , unless somebody 's fallen asleep or something has bored somebody to death . |
| 2 | Your own haiku can have ‘ movement ’ as its subject , ‘ my town ’ , ‘ Spring ’ or whatever has moved you to powerful feeling . |
| 3 | ‘ but he was wearing a collar and I 'd tied him to a lamppost . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm afraid I , I 've only got one spare tape recorder and I 've lent it to somebody already erm |
| 5 | Everyone says that to me , Ruth thought ; everyone wants me to bring them Undry … and I 've promised it to Fand , but I do n't know now whether she 's alive or dead . |
| 6 | In fact , the next paper I sent him was called , if I remember rightly , ‘ The Poet — the Public — the Faith ’ , and I had dispatched it to a review called The Green Quarterly , the only recollection of which I have is that it was quarterly and that it was green . |
| 7 | Beryl was poorly this morning and I had to run her to the doctors . |
| 8 | I was due to pay my second visit to my surgeon after my operation , and I had committed myself to returning to the Centre for a day visit at the end of October . |
| 9 | By now I had covered a fair expanse of this wood , and I had resigned myself to the fact that this would be the earliest I would get , regardless of what was in the ground . |
| 10 | And I have helped her to be so , Ruth thought , jealousy surging through her . |
| 11 | I have responded as fully as possible when the hon. Gentleman has raised the matter , and I have drawn it to the attention of my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food . |
| 12 | Firstly I do n't think there 's a substantial disagreement between Yeltsin and the so called hard liners , except over the question of timing so as to win the market and someone 's introduced them to the Soviet Union , and secondly I do n't think you can treat Boris Yeltsin as some kind of democrat at all , on August the twelfth he threatened to rule Russia by decree just at the definitely senators and the Russian nationalism and he built some sort of support and I , I think it 's very wrong to characterise the events there with the revolution , more it 's been , it 's been much more of a power struggle between different sections of the you know , the elite there along the lines of the events in Romania . |
| 13 | The upshot of this little matter was to leave me labelled as ‘ Mr X ’ — a pseudonym invented by Harold Wilson and which has attached itself to me throughout the years , but never offensively . |
| 14 | We used the police telephone boxes when we were locking somebody up and you had to handcuff them to a railing while you rang up for the van . |
| 15 | its not , you ca n't , the thing is you ca n't defend them without how you die , you ca n't train people how to avo to die , you can only train them how to avoid it , so it does n't really matter if you get fired or not , but they show you the drills and you have to do them to the best of your ability the blank rounds are only there to the conditions , now this is why they 've got these laser got laser sights all over the body , helmet and torso and the actual weapons got a laser on top and you get , if you get near one of these things you go dead and your out , and you can actually simulate |
| 16 | However , if you have a car tyre that has a slow puncture , and you have to take it to the garage every week to put air into it , it does n't mean that there is anything wrong with the pump : there must be something else wrong to make the tyre lose air . |
| 17 | ‘ In the end it 's all about the way you organise all your output and you have to relate it to satisfying the client , ’ Mulvie said . |
| 18 | Not one bum note was played and you have to hand it to the band for their professionalism . |
| 19 | The report was able to recount what had been done in the first year of effort of the newly-organised national campaign for emancipation but to stress continuity through reliance on the circulation of pamphlets by Wilberforce and Clarkson ; reformers were ‘ thus enabled to proceed under the conduct of the same veteran Champions who had first led the battle against the African Slave Trade and who had pursued it to its final extinction ’ . |
| 20 | and she 'd offered it to Maureen three months before and Maureen turned it down , and they went mad they said you little creep Jan , little bloody sneak |
| 21 | She 'd taken him from the town and the friends that he knew and she 'd brought him to this great , dusty mausoleum of a place where he did n't even like to run around because the echo of his footsteps sounded too much like someone faceless who was following too close . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , Havvie , ’ Sally-Anne murmured ; this was going to be even harder than she had thought — and she had said nothing to her uncle Orrin — she could not , not until her engagement was irrevocably over . |
| 23 | And she had dragged herself to her feet again and watched as the man called Duvall had sadistically begun to kill the boy who had protected her . |
| 24 | It must be the one they had found in the lock and she had handed it to Darren to relock the door . |
| 25 | And she has assigned them to me . |
| 26 | She is she she was just running and she 's done something to something there . |
| 27 | And she 's done it to spite me Rosie . |
| 28 | And they 've converted it to two flats . |
| 29 | They had sent a telegram to Louise ( Constance could not pluck up the courage to speak to her ) ; Ludovico had telephoned a friend about somewhere for them to stay and they had eaten what to Constance , used to English food , seemed the most delicious lunch she had ever tasted . |
| 30 | Two of my other men came running over and they had to pin me to the ground . |