Example sentences of "have [verb] to [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the latest ‘ S ’ series , and other new models either recently introduced or about to be , Mercedes aims to head off the challenge posed by a stream of new models from an arch-rival that has stuck to its last , BMW , and the looming threat posed by a fleet of new Japanese luxury models . |
| 2 | ’ Some companies have been very conciliatory , ’ though they 've still come out with lines like ’ if only you 'd talked to us first … ’ . |
| 3 | Cos she , she 'd gone to you first and she , and she came along , she said erm Ann 's not in , she said I 've come down to see you both . |
| 4 | He should never have agreed to take part in this charade , should have adhered to his first decision to refuse . |
| 5 | ‘ Then you should have come to me first . |
| 6 | ‘ Let's say that he should have come to me first , ’ George said in a heavy , measured tone , ‘ and let me sort the whole thing out . |
| 7 | She would have to listen to him first . |
| 8 | I think I 'd talk to them first and if they 're agreeable then I 'd give you their name and telephone number but I 'd have to speak to them first but I would n't just give out the name and telephone number on an ad hoc basis . |
| 9 | He would not tell her , this funny bewitching little English girl , that he had come to her first because he could not keep away from her . |
| 10 | Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away . |
| 11 | The monastery 's right to Pallas was challenged by the Lady Garsinde , wife of Bernard le Velu , who declared that the estate had belonged to her first husband Raymond , from whom count Raymond III had taken it by force . |
| 12 | She was also prone to frequent and severe migraine headaches , and she had a wheezy chest which had led to her first asthma attack which worried her greatly . |
| 13 | But Francis told me that had happened to them last year . |
| 14 | Something odd had happened to her last night . |
| 15 | And sometimes , as had happened to her last Sunday in church , he came in person and snatched them up in his everlasting arms . |
| 16 | There had been genuine fear on some of those people 's faces when she had mentioned Martin 's name , a fear she could appreciate after what had happened to her last night , but it had n't shaken her determination to get to the bottom of the story . |
| 17 | three or four times I had to speak to him last night , and you never said a word , you just pretended or said you did n't hear |
| 18 | Thornton was trying to hijack their project — the baby they had nursed to its first hesitant steps . |
| 19 | However , now I have listened to their first Phonogram-fuelled '60s Baggle Taggle on vinyl , I discover that I ca n't even be arsed to find out where they live . |