Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [pron] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , on the other hand , the golem is already working , then Haberup ( who may not this time be in a position to claim the patent rights ) has presumably done something to annoy it , and in this case ( 10 ) may be used in the sense of an answer to the question : ( 11 ) what did Haberup do to his golem ? |
| 2 | My boyfriend has just asked me to marry him and we are just about to break the good news to our families . |
| 3 | a voice came er , from the , the back of beyond and Keith said , oh he said Sheila has just reminded me to tell you that it was my idea . |
| 4 | He has also asked us to make it clear that this plan is in no sense intended to be fixed and final . |
| 5 | ‘ Only that I can not believe no man has yet asked you to marry him . ’ |
| 6 | Bill has never asked anybody to forgive him before . |
| 7 | Yeah , I thought you 'd only bought it to keep it for a year or two |
| 8 | I 'd only suggested it to distract her . |
| 9 | For a moment she could n't think what he meant , then she remembered with dismay that she 'd already asked him to join her and Elaine and a few of the island friends they 'd made on the new power-boat Stephen had treated them to as the hotel neared completion . |
| 10 | Paige was glad , then , that she 'd never allowed herself to believe they had a future . |
| 11 | She had badly wanted him to kiss her , of course — so badly that she knew it simply must not happen … |
| 12 | The director , Peter Wood , made Orton — who had personally requested him to direct it — do the rewrites . |
| 13 | Nurse Willow had already warned her to put it in the crib . ’ |
| 14 | He had already asked her to marry him . |
| 15 | ‘ You 've just hired someone to help you with the children , and I 've already laid on a cleaning lady . ’ |
| 16 | The fourth section of the screen was scanning a wrecked enemy orbital battle station that was tumbling slowly end over end , locked together with the ruptured Imperial cruiser which had finally rammed it to neutralise it . |
| 17 | Erm , and to look at the stories which are of a different time but are still relevant to our time and place , they have a , have a message for us , even though they were set a hundred years ago , they 've still got something to say us , so I think that 's an area we need to explore . |
| 18 | His single-minded pursuit of his objectives — which had originally led him to sweep her off her feet in such a masterly fashion — and his instinctive opposition to the challenge before him now were qualities which Laura found truly admirable . |
| 19 | And Dr Carrington had particularly asked me to disconnect him from the ventilator . |
| 20 | A London agent , apparently acting for someone anxious for an island property , had made a good offer ‘ sight unseen ’ , and Neil 's solicitors ( who knew the place and the difficulties involved ) had strongly advised him to accept it . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , he was sure it was significant ; it had almost lured him to find it . |
| 22 | She had earlier persuaded him to allow her out of the bank in Greater Manchester on the pretext of getting the keys to the safe . |
| 23 | Although doubts may have been growing about the Woodvilles ' ultimate intentions , there are no signs that anyone else was contemplating direct action against them — or that the family had yet done anything to warrant it . |
| 24 | Although doubts may have been growing about the Woodvilles ' ultimate intentions , there are no signs that anyone else was contemplating direct action against them — or that the family had yet done anything to warrant it . |
| 25 | I 've never asked him to have I been here . |
| 26 | She had half expected him to contact her after she had turned away the team of cleaners he 'd sent to her house to clear up the mess , but she had heard nothing . |
| 27 | He had never asked her to marry him , he had never even said directly and seriously ‘ I love you ’ , he was not bound to her in any way explicitly . |
| 28 | He also added that Moore had never asked them to forgive her for throwing their lives into grief and chaos . |
| 29 | She had never asked him to accompany her home . |
| 30 | Although she had never allowed herself to consider it a possibility , the thought had crossed her mind that he might know something about that letter . |