Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] [to-vb] the " in BNC.

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1 I say , I 'll I 've got to walk the end of the street , get a bus .
2 I 'd hoped to get the poor man writing again .
3 Erm I 'd liked to discuss the point about what aid we can give to try and promote the stability and the event of prosperity of the country .
4 I 'd decided to leave the ‘ coo' de grass until the morning when I would feel more up to it .
5 I suppose I 'd wanted to lure the boy into an acceptance of our ways and if pancakes were the bait , I 'd use it .
6 Finally , on the day that I 'd promised to ring the breeder back and let him know one way or the other , a miracle happened — one of those strokes of luck that seem to come along when you least expect them to .
7 I sorted out old toys into boxes , got a few rolls of carpet and wallpaper back into their places from where they 'd fallen , pinned a couple of maps back on to the sloping wooden under-roof , cleared away some of the tools and bits and pieces that I 'd used to repair the Factory , and loaded the various sections of the Factory that needed to be loaded .
8 Wish I 'd thought to tape the call ; could have been a bootleg bestseller .
9 A deaf therapist said : ‘ They felt that if I wanted to be on the course , I 'd got to manage the same as everyone else .
10 You said I 'd got to make the most of it this week end .
11 er reading and I ha , I could n't hold of enough of the material in the time I 'd got to write the essay so I would n't have studied enough , so I did this one on machines , and I got hold of two good books .
12 And of course And anyway , we got there , it was alright , and erm I had to fill this tractor , where it was , of course they 're going to make fun of me again , first morning I 'd got to get the tractor ready , and you know them , five gallon five gallon , things can happen at the time , and I have been had been supposed to be to get the hole at the top of the can , and not spill it you see .
13 But Sally was so good , Luckily I 'd remembered to pack the Farley 's Rusks and she had those mixed up with boiled water the guard got for me from the restaurant car . ’
14 By the time I 'd learned to appreciate the Stage , I was already on it .
15 Higher up the dome became steeper , but by now I 'd learned to trust the rock a bit more .
16 Er , and I 'd forgotten to take the money up before Christmas so it was still here yesterday .
17 The horrible truth was slowly dawning on me : I 'd been so preoccupied with finding things like Wellington boots and torches , not to mention boning up on my Enid Blyton , that I 'd forgotten to read the small print .
18 I know I 'd had to smash the door , he had to smash the door open with a spade , the lock for me , cos , he , he , he could n't get , he tried er taking that panel out at the bottom and he could n't get it out and I did n't really want him to smash the double glazed glass , in fact it , that would of been very difficult
19 ‘ But Maurin had gone roaring off in a taxi and I 'd had to find the bus stop and so I did n't seriously expect to .
20 I was then able to use this in my Elu96 router along with templates I had made to cut the mitres on both rails and uprights ( the router seems to be the most important part of my kit these days ) .
21 If I had decided to call the Division again , up on the screen would have gone the sign ’ Division Off ’ and Members would have drifted away .
22 Once I had begun to reap the benefits from my new system , I decided to enlarge on it and make it work even harder for me .
23 I had begun to believe the Hall quite deserted . ’
24 Hazlitt has not been short of biographers , but before reading Jones I never felt I had begun to know the man , or formed any satisfying conception of his obviously contradictory nature .
25 Having seen taxis north of Adrar , and then a couple of days ago , a convoy which had not so much as a compass , I had begun to think the desert not so terrible after all .
26 I had wanted to regain the weight in a controlled , steady way , but instead I find myself stuffing wildly ( mostly when I 'm babysitting ) : biscuits , chocolate , great hunks of cheese , cakes , pasties ; and I 'm feeling more and more anxious as the food runs out — I end up eating dog biscuits , and frozen cakes and Angel Delight powder and raw jelly and dry cereal .
27 I had wanted to see the danse macabre preserved there , once part of the stonework of the cathedral at Nogykanizsa .
28 I had wanted to enjoy the protection conferred by his proximity , but I was very , very pleased not to be drawn to the attentions of the spooks .
29 I had wanted to watch the roses lit by sudden light , but they would n't let me .
30 There did n't seem to be anything interesting there , but I remembered the lesson of the day before , when I had stopped to sniff the air and everything had seemed fine , then ten minutes later I was wrestling with a kamikaze rabbit , so I trotted down off the side of the dune and down to the line of debris thrown up by the sea .
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