Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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1 | He was a good playmate and he and I enjoyed playing " horses " where one would " drive " the other in turns with string as harness — and he told me years later it was a bitter disappointment to him when I said I 'd grown out of the game . |
2 | I had n't realized just how much I 'd got out of the swing of things but everyone helped as much as they could and I soon adjusted back again . |
3 | ‘ By when do I have to get out of the house ? ’ |
4 | Erm I had to wriggle out of the scrum |
5 | I had to wriggle out of the scrum , right , good |
6 | I just started to hate the man , I do n't know what I would have done if I had walked out of the interview room and met him in the corridor . ’ |
7 | Except that in that case Timmy would n't be Timmy , and the thought that there might be no Timmy , that there might be some other person altogether occupying his space in the world , fills me with terror , as if I had looked out of the bedroom window and found the solid earth beneath the house had disappeared . |
8 | I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo . |
9 | In fact , when he drove us home he was in such a state I had to get out of the van . |
10 | I had to get out of the business . |
11 | ‘ I looked for a marshall 's post , but the guy 's glove prevented him pulling out the safety pin in the extinguisher and I had to get out of the car and do it for him ! ’ |
12 | Tracey Anne McLaughlan told Sheriff David Smith : ‘ He said I had to get out of the house , that Mr Kelbie was riddled with AIDS . |
13 | I was n't watched closely ; I had opted out of the ( sexual ) competition with my sisters ; and some of my eccentricities were tolerated on the grounds that my presence in the house was only temporary and , in the long run , of little relevance to its essential life . |
14 | Soon I had come out of the field and was walking along the path opposite where my home would be . |
15 | Hilda and he were in London on a spree , Viola and I had come out of the theatre for the interval — Noel Coward , Rattigan . |
16 | And I could n't remember it was forty four and my mind went totally blank and I had to walk out of the exam for over half an hour with a and I could n't remember a thing and went back in . |
17 | I had to stare out of the window . |
18 | If there 's one thing I 've learned out of the past six years , it 's that anybody can get out of anything if they try hard enough . ’ |
19 | I 've got out of the way , I 'm trying to do my accounts , I ca n't understand this new money can you ? |
20 | I 've got out of the habit . ’ |
21 | I 've got out of the way of , I 've often said to Dinda , you know , I would n't mind going back to an open fire in the winter . |
22 | .. I have changed out of the paternal democracy into a conservatism that believes in Caesar , Pope and the fierce God of Battles — almost . ’ |
23 | says explaining why he had come to earth Jesus told the Roman governor Pontius Pilate , will thus I 've been born and for this purpose I have come out of the world that I should bear witness to the truth , but what particular truth was Jesus sent to earth to make no man , first just about his heavenly father , he taught his followers to pray that his father name be hallowed or hell holy and he prayed , I have made your name manifest to the man you gave me , also he said I must declare the good news with the kingdom of God , because for this I was sent forth , so what truths did Jesus come to er , to tell ? |
24 | She has sidled out of the kitchen . |
25 | And , just when you 'd got out of the flower , and were feeling really proud of yourself , you 'd look at the new , big , wide endless world around you . |
26 | Pete , thinking of the Venetz sisters ' reputation for efficiency and attention to detail , asked her if she 'd hit any problems over having no social security records or documentation ; she currently had the status of an illegal immigrant , after all , and had even dumped her hot French passport as she 'd walked out of the 78 air terminal . |
27 | Yet Mrs Blakey continued to sense the unease she 'd been aware of on the telephone , which she 'd first of all sensed when she 'd looked out of the landing window and seen the boy with the children in the garden . |
28 | I 've been meaning to talk to you , but you 've ducked out of the building so fast after finishing your show these last two days , ’ she told him when he stopped to greet her and ask if she had heard the brilliant spontaneous earthquake joke he 'd cracked on air that morning . |
29 | ‘ So you 've opted out of the war effort , ’ he greeted her nastily , ‘ to go swanning all over the Pacific ? ’ |
30 | Erm when you once y once you 've got out of the habit of sixteenths and thirty seconds , and things like that , you find that I mean , we found the other week , did n't you , that you were thinking , Oh these millimetres a bit of a pain . |