Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I — I could n't just go in and — and I had nowhere to go so … ’ |
| 2 | At Eton the different houses and classrooms were spread over a large area , and in the next day or two I had somehow to find out where and when which masters were teaching me what subjects . |
| 3 | I 've yet to work out why you were quite so angry with me just for hauling you out of the water , Caroline . ’ |
| 4 | to Coronation Street do not know all the facts of course , we are ignorant of the finer points of the time gone by , but why is Deirdre so lasted to Ken I 've yet to catch up with Wednesday night 's proceedings on my video contraption , but the last thing that I heard Deirdre say to Ken as he was recovering on a put-u-up in her front room was , I 'm stuck with you till you back on your feet and as far as I 'm concerned it ca n't come soon enough for me , Ken lay there immobile , stunned , a cruel carry on , what 's the poor chap done , but then I 've missed too much |
| 5 | ‘ But unfortunately I 've nowhere to stay here either . ’ |
| 6 | He used to say : ‘ I think music is in the air all around me : I 've only to take as much as I want ’ . |
| 7 | He was describing Odd-Knut 's Volvo which arrived the next morning , the like of which I have yet to see again . |
| 8 | In fact , I notice I have yet to record here anything of my journey to this city — aside from mentioning briefly that halt on the hillside road at the very start of it . |
| 9 | ‘ He will have one race before then , but I have yet to decide where , ’ said the trainer , adding : ‘ He is a much stronger horse now and I am sure that one and a half miles is his best distance . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I can see that it 's going to take me some time to get an answer from the hospital , and I have yet to sort out this business of the air-conditioning . |
| 11 | I can , as yet , rate only the cheaper of these because I have yet to summon up the chutzpah to ask Tesco to send me all their other examples to sample . |
| 12 | Oh , yes — you said that you and Mummy entertain Daddy 's guests — but I have yet to learn how good you are at turning out perfectly cooked food . |
| 13 | Now I have finally begun , he wrote , I have only to go on and the end will arrive . |
| 14 | To move would be impossible ( and yet I have only to stand up , pull off the bracelets , announce an end to all this … ) . |
| 15 | So , I have always to go back to the beginning if I want to sort something out . |
| 16 | For anyone who has yet to come up with an idea , BVP will provide access into the venture portfolio of 140 successful US products , established by companies which have already developed their product and secured a significant market share . |
| 17 | But Mr Kohl 's lack of forthrightness in acting against racist attacks and his reluctance to take up the cause of their victims suggests a chancellor , if not a country , who has yet to come fully to terms with the past . |
| 18 | You 've just to get on and overcome them . |
| 19 | ‘ You 've only to hold on , and let the archers begin and end it . ’ |
| 20 | Last night , Amaranth Wilikins had told Grunte that she had yet to make up her mind in which of the many debates she would try to speak . |
| 21 | Sadly , at the end of her stay , her promised flat had failed to materialise and she had nowhere to live yet again . |
| 22 | She had only to sit back with perfect composure — something at which she was adept — and wait for him to find his way through the necessary preliminaries to the real business of this meeting . |
| 23 | So you had studiously to act out a charade of affection and natural ease until , like politicians , you had settled the issue in private , one way or the other . |
| 24 | You had only to ride out the storm — inside preferably — ’ with a flash of humour as the heavens reminded him of their still present threat ‘ — and the dust would soon have settled . |
| 25 | But they still do get nurses due for retirement who have nowhere to go apart from a special retirement home for others in the same profession . |
| 26 | A first win at home is a must for Steve Coppell 's boys against Nottingham Forest , the only team below them in the Premier Division who have yet to win away . |
| 27 | Reminder letters have been sent to those course organisers with courses ending by 31 October , who have still to send in completed questionnaires . |
| 28 | ‘ You have yet to sleep here one night . |
| 29 | ‘ If you are planning to spend the evening with this gentleman , you have only to say so . ’ |
| 30 | If you think there is a more equitable arrangement to be made , you have only to say so . ’ |