Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the last person I had moved on to the hundreds had enormous problems with the stickiness of them . |
| 2 | Once I 'd accomplished the first stages of training , getting her to sit still on my fist , I had to move on to the next stage : getting her to feed there . |
| 3 | I had to go on to the usual horror . |
| 4 | ‘ Because I only found the portrait — I was only able to identify the man in her diary when I had to go out to the cottage last Saturday . |
| 5 | Then I had to go down to the station to get somebody and by the time I came back , most of the stuff had gone . |
| 6 | I had to go back to the room , as if I needed to tell the place where I lived of my feeling . |
| 7 | So I thanked Mr. Lennis for his frankness , explained that I had to go back to the bank to deal with some work , and departed . |
| 8 | I , I could feel that I have , I had to go back to the bath to the toilet quite often . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Did not get the job — dear , former [ xx ] Manager , drove me up there ( 6 miles north of Perth ) and then on to Dunkeld where he insisted on giving me lunch — he had originally thought of taking me to Gleneagles , but I had to get back to the outplacement people — and did so , only to find ‘ my ’ counsellor had , for the third time , failed to keep an appointment with me . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I stared wonderingly at the small , wax candle which I had thrown on to the floor of my chamber . |
| 15 | I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another . |
| 16 | Just before getting in the trucks , I had wandered down to the rooms where the crippled legionnaires lived . |
| 17 | Gentle had successfully recreated one Gauguin previously , a small picture which had gone on to the open market and been consumed without any questions being asked . |
| 18 | The purple book , which had fallen on to the floor during the night , jogged his memory . |
| 19 | He found a ‘ poor fishing town ’ which had retreated on to the cliffs to avoid the winter storms ; but it was far better situated than Daniel Defoe allowed when he visited the coast in the 1720s . |
| 20 | She seemed to be caught up in a permanent giddying whirl , of trying to run the nightclub , making herself available to the police whenever they needed her , and coping with the demands of a sensation-hungry Press which had swooped on to the drugs-bust story with its famous heroine like a pack of vultures . |
| 21 | Some injuries had apparently been caused by the explosion dislodging flooring and equipment on the overhead jigs which had crashed on to the men working on the shop-floor . |
| 22 | Shelley looked at the date she had scribbled on to the surgery diary . |
| 23 | Sarah was kept busy replenishing dishes , and every time she had to go down to the kitchen she was afraid of missing the Reverend Morey , but he appeared last of all . |
| 24 | Then she had to go back to the shop to get our fish and chips , so we bundled up the rest of the wood and , as it was dark , ventured out to see if Dad could find some customers for his new business . |
| 25 | She had to go back to the theatre and see this thing through , for tonight , at least . |
| 26 | When the laundry maid had told her he had been married , she had gone up to the high moors and wept . |
| 27 | After buying fresh bread she had gone on to the fish market where boxes full of melting ice displayed what was left of the morning 's catch , much of which she did n't recognise . |
| 28 | She 'd heard of an opening for a showroom model at one of the better fashion houses on the Via Monte-napoleone ; despite the agency 's insistence on scouting all jobs itself , she had gone around to the house and applied for the position herself , listing International Models as representing her . |
| 29 | In this case , sometime before we reached Ixyphal , she had gone back to the storage and cargo area to look at the sculpture again , murmuring things like ’ masterpiece ’ and ’ magnificent ’ and the usual art-appreciation noises that people murmur . |
| 30 | She had gone out to the Windmill for ale while he contented himself in the kitchen . |