Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the practice is something in which people share , there are behavioural criteria for saying that someone has cottoned on to the use of an expression . |
| 2 | I 'd gone across to the old folks ' home to have a chat with Maureen and , inevitably , I was telling her about the trouble I was having . |
| 3 | I 'd crumpled on to the door mat and I remember a fearful pain , but whether it was my head or my ankle , I do n't really know . |
| 4 | He 'd been there first , waiting , and I 'd walked up to the carefully prominent bait and presented him with a perfect target , a broad back in a scarlet sweater , an absolute cinch . |
| 5 | Once I 'd got on to the continent I 'd walk there if I had to . |
| 6 | Now the last person I had moved on to the hundreds had enormous problems with the stickiness of them . |
| 7 | Once I 'd accomplished the first stages of training , getting her to sit still on my fist , I had to move on to the next stage : getting her to feed there . |
| 8 | I had to go on to the usual horror . |
| 9 | ‘ Because I only found the portrait — I was only able to identify the man in her diary when I had to go out to the cottage last Saturday . |
| 10 | Then I had to go down to the station to get somebody and by the time I came back , most of the stuff had gone . |
| 11 | I had to go back to the room , as if I needed to tell the place where I lived of my feeling . |
| 12 | So I thanked Mr. Lennis for his frankness , explained that I had to go back to the bank to deal with some work , and departed . |
| 13 | I , I could feel that I have , I had to go back to the bath to the toilet quite often . |
| 14 | It was a day much like today , hot and sunny , but unlike today there were no tourists about and Dave and I had stripped off to the skin and stepped through the shallows with mud squidging between our toes to the pebbly beach , swimming out into the cool water . |
| 15 | If he 'd been following me he would have to have been close because I had gone straight to the camera , and I would have heard him , even in the wind . |
| 16 | I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me . |
| 17 | I flung the sporting pistol I had looted on to the back seat , relieved to think I would never have to defend myself with it . |
| 18 | Did not get the job — dear , former [ xx ] Manager , drove me up there ( 6 miles north of Perth ) and then on to Dunkeld where he insisted on giving me lunch — he had originally thought of taking me to Gleneagles , but I had to get back to the outplacement people — and did so , only to find ‘ my ’ counsellor had , for the third time , failed to keep an appointment with me . |
| 19 | At my first event in Fort Worth , I had held on to the few people I knew as though for dear life , terrified at the thought of being stranded in this great wilderness . |
| 20 | I stared wonderingly at the small , wax candle which I had thrown on to the floor of my chamber . |
| 21 | I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another . |
| 22 | At this juncture , I realized that I had driven close to the point where the boat had landed me the previous evening . |
| 23 | Just before getting in the trucks , I had wandered down to the rooms where the crippled legionnaires lived . |
| 24 | We 're able to put up most of them , while the remainder I 've sent round to The Beach Hotel . ’ |
| 25 | Well anyway , whatever I I tried to get him to erm , cos I 've written again to the newspaper , I 've tried to get him to confess that , that the unions are the biggest because erm , even then I said to tell him well supposing that we could get , I said , erm you know the money to support you , I said just supposingly I said would be private vet , and he said what you dare say they would have to have there . |
| 26 | But I 've fallen on to the floor often enough to know how to get up . |
| 27 | The 29-year-old British number one will have butterflies in his stomach when he goes on court but says : ‘ You never play well unless you are a bit nervous but generally I 've reacted well to the Davis Cup and I enjoy it . |
| 28 | But I 've copied over to the same place , what it seems to be doing provided the cell pointed out , you 're looking at the top left . |
| 29 | I have said before to the hon. Member for Mid-Ulster ( Rev. W. |
| 30 | As I said when answering the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland ( Mr. Wallace ) I have written individually to the chairmen of the 100 largest companies urging them to pay close attention to settling their debts on time . |