Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the practice is something in which people share , there are behavioural criteria for saying that someone has cottoned on to the use of an expression . |
| 2 | Several times it 's happened to me that someone has come up to me and asked if I 've ever done a play . |
| 3 | Do you know what yours has gone up to ? |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd gone up to Ethel 's sister to cheer her up because she was looking so miserable . |
| 5 | And then , after I 'd gone round to Tesco 's I went to see to collect grandma to take her to the train . |
| 6 | The day I came here I 'd gone down to Age Concern — I used to go there for meetings and bingo — and I told them I was n't stopping because I 'd no money . |
| 7 | He said you 'd have no idea where to start and , in any event , he had bribed two shepherds to say I 'd gone down to Foxton Mire . |
| 8 | As for Edward — it was clear that I 'd stumbled on to sensitive ground . |
| 9 | I 'd crumpled on to the door mat and I remember a fearful pain , but whether it was my head or my ankle , I do n't really know . |
| 10 | I 'd never been there but there would have been a terrible fuss if I 'd taken off to Roundhay Park or Woodhouse Moor or somewhere . |
| 11 | He 'd been there first , waiting , and I 'd walked up to the carefully prominent bait and presented him with a perfect target , a broad back in a scarlet sweater , an absolute cinch . |
| 12 | Of all the things I 'd got up to in my time , I never thought I 'd be stitched for trying to return someone 's stolen property . |
| 13 | Once I 'd got on to the continent I 'd walk there if I had to . |
| 14 | But obviously I 'd got on to something a bit more skilled and I still had this know all attitude . |
| 15 | I 'd got through to a girl I said extension two three six and then oh and the feller said er |
| 16 | I did n't want to risk Mrs Long , and Mrs Travers knew where I had moved on to , so giving her name could cause problems as well . |
| 17 | I had moved on to selling friends ' addresses to the Chief-Corporal , and in return for the names and numbers of two Sloane girlfriends I had got the bed nearest the stove . |
| 18 | Now the last person I had moved on to the hundreds had enormous problems with the stickiness of them . |
| 19 | I had moved out to Fernhill , too , leaving the world of the ‘ room and kitchen ’ with relief . |
| 20 | I had assumed up to this point that you really wished to speak not to me but to my husband ( who is of course E J Maitland , a philosopher whose reputation is rather more likely than mine to attract telephone calls from the great officers of state ) and that I was being summoned to the phone merely because he was not there . |
| 21 | I had travelled down to Punta Arenas , which the biblical authority of the South American Handbook said was the best jumping-off point . |
| 22 | I asked Frankie when I had pushed through to him . |
| 23 | Even the Arabs in the Ministry of Health office in the hospital had n't really been briefed , and the poor man who was given the job of meeting our needs nearly had a heart attack when I showed him a copy of the list I had sent out to his head office weeks ago . |
| 24 | It was a day much like today , hot and sunny , but unlike today there were no tourists about and Dave and I had stripped off to the skin and stepped through the shallows with mud squidging between our toes to the pebbly beach , swimming out into the cool water . |
| 25 | Joanne had handled the set-up of the press conference in Glasgow and I had gone on to Newcastle Airport to meet the plane there . |
| 26 | I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me . |
| 27 | I knew he now realized this was serious , but I was not sure I had got through to him how serious . |
| 28 | I flung the sporting pistol I had looted on to the back seat , relieved to think I would never have to defend myself with it . |
| 29 | I had held on to Lili , and Syl had brought me home insisting that our mothers should stay and go on to dinner with Lili and Robert and the gallery owner as planned . |
| 30 | At my first event in Fort Worth , I had held on to the few people I knew as though for dear life , terrified at the thought of being stranded in this great wilderness . |