Example sentences of "have [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I see you 've come to know me well , ’ responded Antony . |
| 2 | I can not remember whether he has arranged to visit me at Twickenham . |
| 3 | The dangers of such an approach can be seen at its most extreme in Gordon Rattray Taylor 's neo-Freudian interpretation of Sex in History : ‘ The history of civilisation is the history of a long warfare between the dangerous and powerful drives and the systems of taboos and inhibitions which man has erected to control them ’ . |
| 4 | 4 You work in a bookshop , someone has telephoned to ask you to put the last copy of a particular book ( which will be difficult to replace ) on one side . |
| 5 | If your mail to a debtor is returned with this notation and he has forgotten to leave you his new address all is not lost . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , the discipline itself , especially in the United States , has resolved to regard him as a leading advocate of scientific method and by subscribing to this interpretation we have at least avoided causing confusion . |
| 7 | Perhaps the time has come to test it . |
| 8 | ‘ It has come to take you away , ’ said a German who spoke English . |
| 9 | Nobody has come to see me today about that and I think it is disgraceful that the surgery has been disrupted , ’ he said . |
| 10 | The sea has come to claim us — |
| 11 | They are all faced with the power of God in Jesus who has come to destroy them . |
| 12 | I will argue , in this paper that , although valuable information is currently being lost to history , it need not and it should not be lost and the time has come to prevent it . |
| 13 | Every ache and pain , every common cold , every bout of indigestion , every headache , every broken bone has its emotional meaning , and has come to help us — if we will listen to its message . |
| 14 | At last Robert Sheldrake said , ‘ Good veterinary nurses are sometimes difficult to find , but Dawn is an old friend who has come to help us out in our new venture . ’ |
| 15 | She has come to tell them about the opportunities which await them if they are prepared to make the long journey to Oregon . |
| 16 | ‘ They know what she has come to tell them . ’ |
| 17 | He has come to tell us that the feast is about to begin and we must go down immediately . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The time has come to make it clear that it is only where a taxpayer has established the existence of a profit-generating operation carried on by him outside Hong Kong that he can hope to escape the charge to profits tax imposed by section 14 . |
| 19 | We 've been out on this balcony a long time , and no one has come to interrupt us . |
| 20 | Hewlett-Packard Co is amongst Unix vendors Microsoft Corp has approached to help it develop a Unix version of Microsoft Mail : Microsoft expects Mail could be running under Open Look and Motif by year-end , though observers are sceptical given that a promised OS/2 Presentation Manager version has yet to appear . |
| 21 | In The Wrench he creates the rigger Faussone , the practical man whose cranes girdle the world and who keeps returning , a little heavy-footed , to the house in Turin where two old aunts fuss over his welfare : Faussone was spoken of as ‘ my alter ego ’ , and the book has to struggle to accommodate him as a second person , available for interview by Levi . |
| 22 | Local MP , Barry Legge has written to say he sympathises with the villagers , but insists it 's a matter for the planners . |
| 23 | Vee Clark has written to say she bought her first knitting machine from Julia 18 months ago and has been very happy to have her help on more than one occasion . |
| 24 | You will remember that this is a commendation given to a shop or dealer on behalf of a reader who has written to tell us of service above and beyond the call of duty . |
| 25 | Since then she has written to tell us of her first reply and we thought you 'd also be interested in some of the suggestions that came in , including Dee Murton 's account of the origin of these cardboard cones which was news to us . |
| 26 | Recently , Trevor Dunkerley , warden of Langley House Trust — a residence for the rehabilitation and after-care of ex-offenders — has written to tell us about his residents , several of whom have suffered mental and mental-handicap disorders . |
| 27 | Pilar has been living alone in the huge house and has struggled to maintain it with four staff . |
| 28 | Of course , it might be said that a man in your position , if you 'll forgive the expression , is dieting either because his lover has threatened to leave him if he does n't shed a few pounds or because his lover has left him and he feels a need to , shall we say , freshen up . |
| 29 | Their ability to contain or manage the conflict when this has threatened to engulf them as well as the regional contestants , for example in 1967 and 1973 , contrasts sharply with their inability to transact a peace process which transcends their own rivalry in order to resolve the conflict . |
| 30 | There is then no longer them and us , for the mind has expanded to include them and us in one larger us . |