Example sentences of "and [pers pn] 've [vb pp] to " in BNC.

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1 so I walked in his house or her house or their house , you know , and I 've said to them blah blah blah blah blah but this is what it 's all about
2 Because er while I 've had wedding cake from people and and they give you a little bit and I 've said to you have n't I , well I would n't have bothered giving anybody this .
3 ‘ Gilbert and I 've decided to be friends .
4 Well , I know what you 're up to and I 've tumbled to Janice .
5 Fenner Brockway , well I , I 've gone to meetings in the Albert Hall , and I 've gone to meetings at Sheffield .
6 Yes I 've phoned and I 've written three times and I 've written to his mother our official letter , official no headed notepaper she 's not there , she works as a nurse does n't she ?
7 a point at the moment , with the life of the county , I think that we should great potential and great opportunity available to us , and I do hope that all members will er , and I 've written to all our members of parliament with a copy of my letter , er , I had I 've had er , I know it 's been the Christmas period , and that they 're only just getting back into things , and there 's been a lot of diversions at length , and I do have a letter from , er I heard from er , Edward , er , Mr Edward Lee , and and , I still have to hear it from er , the rest of them .
8 No that 's what I say and , and I 've written to the insurer to the insurer to tell , ask them what is the situation and we 're still waiting an answer .
9 You 've had this video now and I 've come to this school since you started this school , so you should know more about Stranger Danger than other schools cos I keep coming every year and talking to you about it .
10 and er I 've discussed this before and I 've come to the conclusion that these children who come along with Jehovah 's Witnesses knocking on your door they 're more affected than any child once a year practising whatever you like to call it Halloween or whatever .
11 At last , seeing the impatient glint in his eyes , she drew a long breath and said , ‘ I 've been thinking things over — thinking very deeply — and I 've come to the conclusion that your idea of merging our two practices is , after all , the most sensible solution to our problem . ’
12 ‘ I feel like he 's the child , and I 've got to be the adult . ’
13 Even more hammily : ‘ But — and here 's the bad news — our first priority — and I 've got to be blunt and straightforward with you — is to raise the number of students going through higher education to double what it is at present , by 96/97 . ’
14 He comes once a week with it and I 've got to be careful to make them last .
15 And I said to him — we had a fairly frank relationship — I said , ‘ Listen , Ron , I 'm going to be here tomorrow , and you 're not ; and I 've got to be comfortable . ’
16 I mean , I 've got an album full of new music and I 've got to be very careful .
17 It 's one thing if you 're fully staffed but if you think that whichever of my boys is on guard duty for the day is responsible for the shopping as well as the cooking , and I have to put another boy on guard as substitute to him and another at the disposition of the local magistrate , and I 've two out on motor-bike patrol — where am I when a case like this comes up and I 've got to be out ? ’
18 I 'm black and I 've got to be better than the next applicant , but I do n't let it hold me back .
19 Actually , I like a nice bath now and then , and I 've got to be as fresh as possible for Tina , my childhood sweetheart .
20 He used to be a crane driver dear for , yeah he used and I 've got to , one of me sons now is a foreman for , well they 're not now it 's , it 's sort of amal amalgamated with another firm now I think , but he does , he does erm , he 's a foreman like now , he used to be a truck , crane driver and my , the very night that my hubby died on the following Monday he would of been working in Harlow , he got a new crane to take over in Harlow and he 'd been working away from home for weeks and months of the year always away , coming home weekends and I used to have to cook and do his washing and pack him up for going off again Monday morning early , but he never was near home working then , and as I say the night before he went he was , he was gon na work on the Monday to in Old , to Harlow down where the new er place was for and it unfortunately cos he went .
21 Well well er yes well from what I 've already learnt , and I 've got to be rather blunt in this matter , I 'm afraid that Carol 's expectations
22 Go on , I put that in on Wednesday and I 've got to about a quarter of a tank again .
23 and I 've got to , another out of , in play , which is always useful .
24 and I 've got to there and then to there and
25 I 'm battle scarred , it 's true , and I 've learned to be more philosophical and less impulsive but , essentially …
26 The brothel keeper had no reason to lie to me , and I 've talked to the other clients who saw her there . ’
27 We 've done a review of the service , we did a review of field centres , we really do not accept that one area , no matter how worthwhile and I 've talked to you
28 Alright , what you did n't see , and I 've talked to the man who made the video , and he tells me that in fact — as played in slow motion , it does definitely show that Martin Foyle as the ball was going goalward , got the final touch to the ball and did put it into the net , no doubt that in fact it was Foyle 's goal .
29 These these black blobs are supposed to be proteins and and I 've tried to er illustrate the orientation of the protein by showing these er these supposedly er glyco er substi substituents on the outside of the cell .
30 Now I 've seen club owners in the movies , and I 've listened to their talk in person , but I 've never heard anyone using a word like muppet before .
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