Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suffered dreadfully but nothing has happened to him . |
| 2 | In that narrow sense , Reagan was right when he insisted at his testimony , as on every previous occasion , that ‘ no-one has proven to me that there was a diversion . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Then it 's something someone has done to you yes ? ’ |
| 4 | Yes I 'd to talk to her . |
| 5 | I 'd said to her nervously . |
| 6 | Because I was joking I 'd said to her erm about er , you know my daddy right is er you know , th right , you know mum and daddy lived in Edinburgh and I was saying that my daddy was about the fees in erm Gleneagles , my daddy 's er , a member of Gleneagles |
| 7 | Er I seriously wish I 'd said to them you know , I 'm , I 'm phoning it a fortnight in advance because I want to stick to the arrangements . |
| 8 | It was what I 'd said to him , near enough . |
| 9 | well they were always against me , well Bill was during the war , what I 'd done to them , finished all the decorating , put shelves up , go on the slate to put his aerial up , he would n't go up , I had to climb out my bedroom window onto the gutter and its a wonder I did n't kill myself then , put his aerial up and |
| 10 | I 'd written to them , and I feel they may have got the letter in time . ’ |
| 11 | then Sandy has n't given me a time but I think I 'd suggested to him between six and seven I think people like that they do n't have to go home and |
| 12 | And my mum , my mum was sat in The Weathers with me and I 'd talked to her and everything and I did n't even know that that |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd talked to him a year ago — and we just kept in touch . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd spoken to him a few times , ’ Avril recalls . |
| 15 | that does n't bother me , but considering it was only the second I 'd spoken to him and I did not fancy him in the least erm , it really made my skin crawl . |
| 16 | Yeah and I 'd forgotten that I 'd spoken to her the other night |
| 17 | He seems a nice enough young man , but I refused to allow him up until I 'd spoken to you . ’ |
| 18 | Erm certainly I think all of our quarry , the quarry , I think we were overwhelmed with the support because it was really in our place that the dispute started and a lot of other people who I 'd spoken to you know they they were amazed at the support we received and , seemed to be the shyer the people you know the , some of the lads they never spoke much at lodge meetings , but after a while they 'd be getting up and saying their pieces and , you know I think it 's just because you knew you had backing , and people helping and urging you on , advising you , and the union helping and you know they leant over backwards in various fields to help us . |
| 19 | and I did something strange to is and it became X to the six , what would I have done to it . |
| 20 | Do I have to listen to him mum ? |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | ‘ I had to lie to you about that , to give you the confidence to stand still . ’ |
| 23 | I had prayed to Him . |
| 24 | ‘ Clarice Cliff was a hard taskmistress — I had to report to her every day — but she took great interest in the progress of young trainees and her husband , Colley Shorter , the chairman of her company , arranged for me to take day classes at Newcastle College of Art when I was doing National Service with the RAF stationed in Northumberland , ’ he recounted . |
| 25 | I had written to him in Edinburgh when he was in Belgium , to Belgium when he was in France and to France the very moment he arrived back in Edinburgh . |
| 26 | Remember your moral crime : that you have now lied twice about why I had written to you in the first place ( Letters report , 5 December ) , and you have lied on purpose and you have done so with manifest contempt and disregard for any say or rights that I may have against your sick sense of ‘ editorship ’ . |
| 27 | But I had to talk to you today . ’ |
| 28 | I had hinted to him that I had been engaged on a paper to be called ‘ Enslavement by Capital ’ , a title adapted from one employed by Ezra Pound in a Criterion article called more characteristically , ‘ Murder by Capital ’ . |
| 29 | 'A' was what I needed the most , she gave me criticism and took what I had said to her seriously . |
| 30 | For the rest of the night , I could see him pointing at me and telling all the other guests what I had said to him . |