Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] have [adv] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been as far a a places as far apart as the presbytery of erm Annandale and Esdale which is to , what to south of Scotland , erm and I ca n't think of any corresponding place erm in the north but there have been places in the north that I 've also gone to , and this is my donor card . |
| 2 | The only other thing I have to put to you is this that I 've already put to er what we allege went on in that bedroom . |
| 3 | It 's just that I 've already mentioned to someone else , and if they ca n't go , then I 'll offer it to you . |
| 4 | Okay is there anybody else that you would need to talk to about the recommendations that I 've just given to you ? |
| 5 | That particular single matter was not pursued by the ombudsman an and that therefore means that erm it is n't something that er he felt was a question of maladministration but I did want just to emphasise that this particular point , because in the more er i in the recent report to the Policy Resources Committee on ombudsman complaints , the number , and I ca n't recall exactly what the number was , but the number included in that report relating to planning matters was certainly higher than one , I think there were about half a dozen and what I wanted to take the opportunity of explaining was the , the majority of those all but the one that I 've now referred to , er where in fact relating to district matter planning applications and not to the County Council . |
| 6 | I 've had a girlfriend for two and a half years , but before that I 'd never spoken to a girl in my life . |
| 7 | From a letter to my mother dated 2 May , which has escaped destruction , it is clear that I had just written to Eliot explaining that I realized the undesirability of publication , unless indeed Rowse himself were prepared to give it his endorsement . |
| 8 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 9 | ‘ I must say , ’ answered the pregnant girl , ‘ that I had never expected to be as tired by anything as I was during those awful nights in the Blitz when sleep seemed something one would never have again — but this is worse ! ’ |
| 10 | I wish now that I had never spoken to you . ’ |
| 11 | This attitude to non-verbal communication has been encouraged by the popularisation of right-brain left-brain studies and amongst those who sponsor the soft primitivism that I have just referred to it is widely assumed that the verbal capabilities of the left cerebral hemisphere have been over-developed by a culture which puts too much emphasis on linguistic finesse and that the expressive repertoire of the supposedly holistic right hemisphere has been dangerously neglected as a consequence . |
| 12 | The right hon. Gentleman , who was a Treasury Minister throughout the lifetime of the Labour Government , will appreciate that figures such as those that I have just disclosed to the House would have been regarded as a complete impossibility in his time . |
| 13 | I must tell him that I have recently written to all the representative small business organisations in the United Kingdom asking them to give me examples of where excessive regulation is impeding their business . |
| 14 | The figures in the article were not those that I have ever given to the House . |
| 15 | And so , although Laura would have liked to put her university degree to some good use , she had been so madly in love with her husband that she had willingly bowed to his wishes . |
| 16 | After reading the article Mrs Marjorie Ellerton of Gunnergate Lane , Marton , contacted the D&S to reveal that she had previously complained to Mr Woodhouse about a mistake in his book on Middlesbrough . |
| 17 | She seemed to have come down to earth , leaving behind the soap-opera image that she had once appeared to be caught up in . |
| 18 | Harry tried to shut Mossop 's stumbling remarks out of his head , to concentrate instead on Heather 's words , the last words , in fact , that she had ever spoken to him . |
| 19 | Of one thing she was convinced , however , and that was that she had actually regressed to a previous life and that it had not simply been the work of her imagination . |
| 20 | I 'd been expecting her to put up a stiff rearguard action , protesting that holidays were one thing and everyday life another , that she had only surrendered to me in a moment of weakness which she would regret for the rest of her life , and so on and so forth . |
| 21 | It might have been true once — and she was glad now that she had never succumbed to Hugh 's importuning . |
| 22 | ‘ Our mother says she does n't know where he puts it all , he 's so thin , ’ Carrie said , and as soon as she had spoken it struck her that she had never talked to them about her mother before . |
| 23 | Eddie had been dead ten long years , a life so abruptly terminated that she had never come to terms with it . |
| 24 | Fran walked with him to the door , wishing that she had never agreed to this in the first place . |
| 25 | Not , she admitted truthfully to herself , that she had really wanted to . |
| 26 | And she had so perfected this technique of politely disappearing , that she had to live almost half her life before she came to realize that she had almost disappeared to her own self ! |
| 27 | It was no good saying in her defence that she 'd only meant to be Cara Kingsdale for an hour , because things had n't worked out that way . |
| 28 | Not that she 'd ever wanted to , as she told Apricot . |
| 29 | ‘ And , ’ he pursued pleasantly , ‘ I certainly had n't guessed that you had actually gone to the trouble of speculating on my reactions — to illness or to anything else , ’ he added quietly . |
| 30 | I paused before replying to her , because if you pause before replying to people it gives them the foolish idea that you 've actually listened to what they 've said , and I said of course darling . |