Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I had to go on to the usual horror . |
| 32 | But , nevertheless , for me eternity was not now , and I had to go on into the future and in this world . |
| 33 | ‘ 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | I had to go back to the room , as if I needed to tell the place where I lived of my feeling . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | I , I could feel that I have , I had to go back to the bath to the toilet quite often . |
| 38 | I had to go back into the van to collect my Certificate ( proof ) . |
| 39 | I were just so psyched up on Wednesday and then I had to go in on the Friday before so I did n't |
| 40 | By five-thirty , I had met up with the lads and , content at seventeen miles , stooped in the twilight to hammer home the twenty-eight pegs . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | I had gone out into the garden , closing the scullery door as quietly as I could . |
| 43 | 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 . ’ |
| 44 | I had arrived up at the office one morning to relieve Freda from night duty , and found her sitting up there looking pleased with herself and Jim looking solemn . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | I tried to free it , using the cloth I had brought up from the hall to gain a better purchase . |
| 48 | I made my way to an hotel lounge in the Diamond , where I sat and read a leaflet I had picked up in the church . |
| 49 | Only now , in my old age , I wish I had got down from the table and put my arms round his neck and kissed him . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | But with Karen such frankness was out of the question , and without her cooperation , getting rid of Dennis looked like just another of the many pipe-dreams I had indulged in over the years . |
| 53 | but er the essential work contract then that I had spoken about in the first place the building trade , that was a government order . |
| 54 | I 've got catarrh , in fact I had to get up in the night and put some there |
| 55 | ‘ When it was time for me to fire the very pistol , I had to get up from the wireless operator 's seat and had to move my parachute — which was always as close to my feet as possible and instead of lifting it up by the canvas carrying handle , I lifted it up by the metal handle ( the rip cord ) and so had a bundle of silk to get out of the way . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | In fact , when he drove us home he was in such a state I had to get out of the van . |
| 58 | I had to get out of the business . |
| 59 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 60 | Tracey Anne McLaughlan told Sheriff David Smith : ‘ He said I had to get out of the house , that Mr Kelbie was riddled with AIDS . |