Example sentences of "i had [verb] [adv prt] to [art] " 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 | feet of the cow was not in the original photograph so I had to go up to a a farm and ask for straw to hide the |
| 4 | I had to go on to the usual horror . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I had to go back to the room , as if I needed to tell the place where I lived of my feeling . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I , I could feel that I have , I had to go back to the bath to the toilet quite often . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I had to come back to a degree agreeing with them . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I stared wonderingly at the small , wax candle which I had thrown on to the floor of my chamber . |
| 17 | Some years later , when Hellen and I had settled down to a busy and happily married life in China , we had a Chinese name worked out for her . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Just before getting in the trucks , I had wandered down to the rooms where the crippled legionnaires lived . |