Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [verb] [to-vb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ask then that you , my dear cousin , will be the lady Anne 's chaperon and friend whilst she is at the Tower — any letters from you or the lady Anne to myself , may be sent via the cardinal who has agreed to serve me , and with the utmost discretion , in this matter . |
| 2 | Even now I am ashamed when I think of the night I ‘ let fly ’ to one of our best auxiliary nurses who had come to ask me to help when I was just going off duty . |
| 3 | I did indeed see him as a kind of Christ figure , perhaps as someone who had come to save me from myself , from my ineradicable loneliness of mind and soul . |
| 4 | These were not the three men who had tried to kill me . |
| 5 | And at the same time , I pondered a little over who had tried to kill me , and why . |
| 6 | If I had ever thought of the possibility of being taken prisoner while I was in England , I should have expected all Germans to be like the officer who had tried to interrogate me at the aerodrome or the two soldiers who had brought me from the aerodrome to Amsterdam . |
| 7 | Within minutes I was inside the camp , where I hoped to meet the tinkers who had tried to rob me at Killorglin . |
| 8 | In front of the church of St Maurice I met Lenka , a music student who had promised to show me what she described as ‘ the biggest organ in Central Europe ’ , all 2,311 pipes of it , the largest more than thirty feet tall , the smallest eight millimetres of solid silver . |
| 9 | We always had a tree at home , and the family congregated — my two uncles and their wives and their one-son-apiece , and Addy my father 's unmarried aunt , darling strict Addy , who had helped to bring me up . |