Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 The cash it has taken from the likes of you and me has gone to cover its losses caused by firms going to the wall because of the recession .
2 Now do n't I 've got to go and get that coffee else it 'll be boiling over
3 See I 've got to remember , you see a few of them I had a load of them all talking , you know when I were at school ?
4 Yes , May I 've got to do , it 's May 's stuff .
5 I say , I 'll I 've got to walk the end of the street , get a bus .
6 ‘ So you see I 've got to protect myself .
7 In May I 've come to stay .
8 I 'd pretended to lose my temper and he spotted it . ’
9 I thought of how I must seem to them , the people I 'd grown to know .
10 I 'd hoped to telephone you whilst in London part of this last week for meetings of the British Association of Industrial Editors but got stricken by flu !
11 " Always glad to see you , of course , though I must say that I 'd hoped to go off duty without any more trouble .
12 I 'd hoped to go to Australia , a mere couple of hours by jet , but the Colonel was too clever to allow that .
13 I value your friendship enormously , and I 'd hoped to continue to do so . ’
14 Originally I 'd hoped to apply for Scale 2 posts … but there are very few jobs , now .
15 I 'd hoped to come on to Prague after that .
16 I 'd hoped to get the poor man writing again .
17 He 's a nicer man than Malcolm — stupid Malcolm whom I 'd hoped to marry before he became besotted with Doreen .
18 I 'd hoped to gain sympathy from those idiotic journalists .
19 I knew that from when I 'd gone to watch them play in the past , but I 'd been cured of insomnia for some time now .
20 I 'd loved to have gone you know
21 I 'd loved to have seen Vesta Tilley .
22 But now that Gharr had taken Mala away — and had probably been enjoying her , as he 'd quaintly put it — I 'd began to see that I really had no choice .
23 I 'd began to think I 'd got this agoraphobia whatever it is , I never wanted to go out .
24 Besides , I 'd began to think that Mala had been right .
25 certainly , and my Lord my problem is I 'd liked to see them before I cross-examine Mr the er , the next witness cos he , he was the the officer in charge of brochures , er I do n't know whether the defendants can get , the plaintiffs can get them before but er , I mention it now , the second application my Lord , er your Lordship recalls that Mr evidence is at a meeting of , he brought up his concerns about the accuracy of the inflation sentence in the brochure and a board meeting in , no board meeting to that effect has been disclosed
26 So that 's why I 'd liked to go .
27 Erm I 'd liked to discuss the point about what aid we can give to try and promote the stability and the event of prosperity of the country .
28 Jacklin had pulled up short about 50 or 60 yards from the green — just the sort of position I 'd liked to have been in for us , ; Trevino put his fourth shot through the green .
29 I 'd liked to find Mary something nice and pretty for Christmas , I do n't know what to get .
30 He 'd been glaring and smashing down glasses on the table and muttering under his breath and I wondered what on earth I 'd done to make him so disturbed , and then I realised I had n't done anything .
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