Example sentences of "we have [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | By some miracle , the 2CV had n't been towed away when I 'd finally dragged Ash out ; we 'd made it to the M1 , picked up a hitcher and — rather beyond the call of duty , I 'd have said — dropped him where he was going , in Coventry . |
| 2 | By 25 past , we 'd made it to the car when I realised that I wanted to push — panic ! |
| 3 | If we 'd left it to the day we 'd have been sunk ! |
| 4 | Do they still own the name or do we have to change ours to The Screaming Yellow Cassettedecks ? |
| 5 | So of course we 've asked him to dinner . |
| 6 | So that 's where the money 's going , and we 're hoping that we make enough money in sponsorship so that the money we earn , people will know that it 's all going out to help the projects we want to , and it 's not being wasted on administration , especially after there 's been erm a bit of a debark over Sting 's money , where only 5% went to the Indians and also the Rainforest Foundation has since collapsed , so our head-office is going to be absolutely stringent about making sure that the money is spent where we 've asked it to be spent . |
| 7 | ‘ Oliver , ’ he said , lapsing almost parodically at this solemn moment into the brute vocabulary of mercantilism , ‘ we 've asked you to be a witness and that 's our final offer . ’ |
| 8 | So here we 'd actually have a match of all three saying that we 've recognized it to a level three . |
| 9 | The other area we that we explored in some depth was er whether the the library room could be combined to library or to library , but we 've left it to them to make a decision but they appear to have so decided that there is a mixed pattern emerged . |
| 10 | And , I 've just as a basic figure , I mean , they give up to a certain figure o before their hours you put a bit of tax and after that , but er we 've allocated him to work , in the afternoons when I 'm out , they allocate to her , the warehouse , because I ca n't afford any , er , as I say , they repairs a machine , it goes out faulty , and the onus is on me and the company |
| 11 | We 've committed ourselves to it . |
| 12 | This year we 've restricted it to primary , partly because we felt that 's where the enthusiasm was , and partly , if people wo n't mind me saying so , to keep out the computer science specialists — we felt that , you know , we did n't want a club for boffins or for the experts , we wanted a club and we felt that if we started at the primary end , where there was n't a lot of expertise , we would probably be of more use . |
| 13 | But , but once we 've discus defined who 's gon na do what within the quality systems that , then we 've got something to , to make a start from . |
| 14 | Lovely warm things will be said to-day : she might not be dead if we had said them to her while alive , and let her weep out her hurt and pain at her rejection on our shoulders . |
| 15 | They 'll say ah , if you have stable off , we had to give it to them you see . |
| 16 | We had to take him to hospital and he had three stitches in it . |
| 17 | By the time we reached Totnes , in Devon , we had abandoned ourselves to our despair . |
| 18 | When at 10.45am we had resigned ourselves to a day of swimming and sunbathing a farmer pulled up and asked , in German , if we were waiting for him . |
| 19 | No longer were we ‘ engagé volontaires ’ , who could be treated as nothings — we had proved ourselves to the instructors on our course , and henceforth they would treat us as legionnaires and expect us to behave as such . |
| 20 | And up in the cellar , after the shooting , we had to make them to a brace like that , a cockerel and a hen . |
| 21 | And er then we after the war was finished , we continued making them for several years , but we had to transfer it to another factory . |
| 22 | I can say to my honourable friend , the member for Rydale who takes such a close interest and is so well informed er on these matters , er I 'm very grateful to him for the welcome he 's given for the orders here , he 's absolutely right to say that we have gone beyond er what restrictive called for by Bingham , we have extended it to other sectors in the financial we welcomed the honourable gentleman from Edinburgh Central that these er orders are in some way timid , they are what was called for by the treasury select committee , they are what was proposed er by Bingham and we have er introduced them er here tonight . |
| 23 | We learn to see God as he really is , and not as we have imagined him to be . |
| 24 | By due process of law we have sentenced him to be slit in the hamstrings to be an example to those who would follow him and make him a hero to the people . |
| 25 | We have to leave them to be independent and responsible people in their own right . |
| 26 | Such is the importance of education and training that we have committed ourselves to a programme of investment of £1.7 billion . |
| 27 | If we do not know what we have committed ourselves to in the GATT round , it is difficult to know how to decide the reforms . |
| 28 | We have educated them to the fact of their own power . |
| 29 | In other words , we have allowed ourselves to be brain-washed into avoiding any interpretation of the past that involves extreme and what might be termed " catastrophic " processes . |
| 30 | The first three gospels contain no reference to Christ 's having made any such great discourses as fill chapters 13–16 of St John , and since it seems unlikely that the author of the Gospel took notes during the utterance of this sublime discourse , we have to assume them to be a literary creation . |