Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far three critics have attempted this comparison ( with varying statistics ) , but none of them has done justice to the intensity and range of Shakespeare 's pronouns . |
| 2 | When the Malay leaders of Malaysia assert that the Malays are ‘ bumiputras ’ , sons of the soil , and therefore to be accorded privileges as against the Chinese and Indian Malaysians , only the unkind would point out that the Malays were also immigrants from an earlier period , and that no-one has paid attention to the claims of the real indigenous peoples , the Dayak and other tribes of the forestland . |
| 3 | I went out , I had n't even I 'd said hello to him , that was it . |
| 4 | I 'd made love to her class of Englishwoman before , and had no particular wish to renew the experience . |
| 5 | In fact , you were the first woman I 'd made love to in quite a long time , and I have n't even been interested in anyone since you were offered this job here and accepted it . |
| 6 | ‘ You thought I 'd followed Simon to Adelaide , ’ she continued , ‘ but I 'd gone there on business . |
| 7 | I 'd sent Mum to the acupuncturist to try and give her some energy , and Jack and I were in the house when we heard a terrible thud . |
| 8 | I 'd sent tapes to Radio One and I 'd also spent time devising quizzes that I thought would be better than the ones they were doing . |
| 9 | I 'd wanted Doug to be with me , but he could n't get the time off . |
| 10 | ‘ Only the day before , you came barging into the flat , insinuating that I 'd given information to Richard Blake . |
| 11 | ‘ Because , three months ago , Heather telephoned me and asked if I 'd taken Clare to the Skein of Geese a couple of weeks before her death . |
| 12 | I 'd expected Famlio to be patrolling in deep space , as usual , giving me room to manoeuvre and avoid them . |
| 13 | However , even if I 'd had access to the book at the time — he gave a signed copy to Mrs Goreng when he left and another to the American woman journalist , which I accounted a waste-it would not have been wise to argue . |
| 14 | Now , I 'd mentioned Benjamin to the Ralembergs but told them nothing about his near kinsman , the great cardinal . |
| 15 | And because he was sad , I put my hand on his shoulder , told him that I 'd known Billy to be a good little man ; funny , brave . |
| 16 | ‘ You mean , could I have administered poison to Sir Thomas ? |
| 17 | Was it best to interfere with the cat 's instinct to play with its catch — or should I have left nature to her cruelty ? |
| 18 | Now I know that when I had made love to you that afternoon I was right to follow my instincts . ’ |
| 19 | I paid the fourpence for two coffees , and after I had seen Clare to her train back home , went to St Andrew 's to make a few notes of plans to defend myself , for I knew it would not be long before I faced a new ‘ trial ’ — by the hospital 's board of governors . |
| 20 | On her last evening , after I had said goodbye to her , I happened to pass by a café in which she was sitting , pensively reading a newspaper . |
| 21 | Then I had said goodbye to all my friends . |
| 22 | I had sent kidneys to the laboratory for lead estimation with negative result ; like their owner , I was flummoxed . |
| 23 | I had asked Chris to be President of the Friends before the first meeting . |
| 24 | I had introduced Roose-Evans to Reggie and he gave James access to Joyce 's study and to all her unpublished material and letters . |
| 25 | I had expected Gillis to be long since dead or at best a doddering ninety-year-old . |
| 26 | But now I had come face to face with her four days after she stood before the House of Commons and declared that there were too many hospital beds in London , and that as a result , St Bartholomew 's Hospital , along with numerous others great and small , would have to close , merge or become emasculated . |
| 27 | I then returned to the little inn where I had ordered dinner to be ready at an hour early enough to allow me to walk back to Ballachulish in time for the calling of the steamboat on its Fort William route . |
| 28 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 29 | " I 've said good-bye to Lizzie . |
| 30 | I 've asked Dana to — ’ |