Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] it to " in BNC.
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1 | I had never used the word malai in her hearing ; now I 'd applied it to her . |
2 | ‘ I 'd have been all right if I 'd made it to the main road . ’ |
3 | ‘ I thought I 'd given it to you , ’ John says . |
4 | ‘ I thought I 'd given it to you , ’ Paul says . |
5 | I 'd left it to the end of the meal before I said anything about being arrested . |
6 | I 'd described it to her myself . |
7 | " Sooner than I 'd meant it to , " Sara said a little ruefully . |
8 | So , I said no , I 'd mentioned it to you and talked about it . |
9 | Do I have to do it to the end ? |
10 | If I am to change it I feel that I might as well put a larger engine in it , could you please advise me what would be the best petrol engine and would I have to convert it to 12 volt ; which I do n't really want to do . |
11 | I had made it to the door of my flat . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | ‘ But I already have an assault charge hanging over me , so in the end I had to leave it to the stewards . |
14 | I felt I had to mention it to you , but let this be the end of it . |
15 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
16 | ‘ I was under the impression that I had explained it to you . |
17 | In the end I had to take it to a skid pan to see how far it would go before it eventually lost its cool The answer was as far as its steering lock would allow . |
18 | I had expected it to be best for trenching and shaping in the vertical position , but on all but the softest of timbers it failed to supply a substantial cut . |
19 | I had expected it to be cold but it surprised me with a suddenness that wrenched my breath away . |
20 | I knew I had to bring it to some kind of confession , but saying , ‘ I love you , ’ to a woman who loved another man ? |
21 | This steered them away , as I had meant it to , and they talked for a while longer , then fell silent , enjoying the warmth and the view . |
22 | Now that I had to get it to the by taxi and she had seven stitches put in the leg and , I had to leave her there for six hours , well then it was a taxi back home , I could n't now I am on income support , but that cost me fifty four pound , ninety five and I am paying that . |
23 | On the other hand , I had to prove it to my own satisfaction and I hailed a cab to the next corner . |
24 | I suppose that Kenneth Ingram , the editor , had not quite made up his mind about what I had written , which is the reason why I had forwarded it to Eliot . |
25 | A fire was lit in the ‘ Front Room ’ ( the only time I had known it to be used ) . |
26 | That was no jackdaw 's call — although for just a moment I had taken it to be . |
27 | It was only when I rang her up to chase up what had happened to the she says , oh dear I 've sent it to the wrong one . |
28 | ‘ I 've said it to you before , but I 'll say it again . |
29 | I 'm afraid I , I 've only got one spare tape recorder and I 've lent it to somebody already erm |
30 | I 've repeated it to myself a hundred times already . |