Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have [verb] to [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Many daughters , and even sons , who are unmarried , or who have returned to their parents ' home after a marriage breakdown , may find themselves , in process of time , caring for their elderly parents .
2 So long as they understand or we have communicated to them , why we want them to do that .
3 An hour later , she was sent for and went as she was , still in the apron spotted with bits of meat and potato where they had clung to her as she fought for them .
4 This is an unreal place to be , because if you ca n't talk to other women , yet you believe all women must in the end come to separatism , then either those women have to be born separatist or they have to come to it through isolation , pain and struggle .
5 In the evening , after a snack rather than a meal , I went up to the loft and used the telescope to take a distant look at the island , making sure that nothing had happened to it while I rested inside the house .
6 Luke states that everyone had to go to their home town to be registered .
7 Yet bigger men than them have learned to their cost that no one can behave like that .
8 You 'll notice that I 've said to you we 're going to run the .
9 I feel so much better now that I 've written to you , Joan .
10 In the event my Lord , erm , that er your Lordship felt that further guidance was required , there are the two routes that I 've indicated to your Lordship briefly yesterday , there is the route of er seeking some information , if your Lordship felt it 'd be of assistance to you in resolving any doubts that you may have from the and your Lordship has seen yesterday the notice on co-operation which is in and at page eleven thirty two and is also the exhibit
11 we also rely on the fact that the case that I 've drawn to your Lordships attention yesterday , is this was the case in the supplementary bundle where your Lordship will recall that er on the issue of export credit guarantee
12 my Lord er as indicated to your Lordship yesterday , erm , er the primary position of er is that these issues can be decided and should be decided that in the manner that I 've submitted to your Lordship , er and in the societies favour .
13 Make up some tale that I 've spoken to her on me rounds .
14 And a lot of people that I 've spoken to who 've had problems have turned to that alternative because they could see no other .
15 Er I wonder if you will use any of the things that I 've talked to you about tonight ?
16 Yeah and I 'd forgotten that I 'd spoken to her the other night
17 Will the Minister cast his mind back to the letter that he wrote to me last October — a soothing reply to the representations that I had made to him — pointing out that the Salford careers service , which covers my constituency , had forecast a shortfall of between 400 and 450 YTS places ?
18 With this background , as a teacher I saw the subject as a collection of facts and skills that I had to impart to my pupils in a well-defined sequence .
19 I think I must have expressed dissatisfaction with the ‘ Poetry and Propaganda ’ article , because , like others that I had submitted to him up to that point , it was never to appear .
20 You will doubtless recall that I have written to you before on this subject .
21 Seeing that my daughter Anna has not availed herself of my advice touching the objectionable practice of going about with her arms bare to the elbows , my will is that , should she continue after my death this violation of the modesty of her sex , all goods , chattels , moneys , land , and other that I have devised to her for the maintenance of her future life shall pass to the oldest of the sons of my sister Caroline .
22 Will he carefully consider the representations that I have sent to him on that subject ?
23 Tell them , what I 've said to you the message that I have given to you .
24 There are things that I have thought to myself about these .
25 erm Arthur used to listen and in the end er , I think Johnny went off , you know , satisfied that somebody had listened to him
26 The paratroopers claimed that she had consented to everything .
27 Pinned beneath him , she was shaking so violently that she had to cling to him to steady herself .
28 Knew that she had warmed to him , that she wanted to ease his grief , and for a dangerous few seconds he thought he would cry .
29 He had shown her round the parish with such an enthusiasm for its social and ethnic diversity that she had warmed to him and , when offered the curacy , accepted .
30 For all the thought that she had given to his ordinary life , Johnny could have been a milkman , for all she cared , or an Insurance broker working in the City , whose daily brush with danger was in trying to cross the road .
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