Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Because the practice is something in which people share , there are behavioural criteria for saying that someone has cottoned on to the use of an expression .
2 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 .
3 how much was n't held until after I 'd gone up for the money for Matthew 's back .
4 If only I 'd gone along with the doctor 's proposals , it would have been over by now — completely and painlessly over , and any feelings of guilt I might have had as a result I would surely have dealt with ages ago .
5 I 'd gone out on the boat
6 I 'd crumpled on to the door mat and I remember a fearful pain , but whether it was my head or my ankle , I do n't really know .
7 As I looked at her , I thought of her shrinking , like someone in a fairytale , and how one day I might hold her in the palm of my hand with her little voice squeaking commands at me as if she was a mouse I 'd picked up in the garden .
8 He 'd been there first , waiting , and I 'd walked up to the carefully prominent bait and presented him with a perfect target , a broad back in a scarlet sweater , an absolute cinch .
9 I 'd walked up from the village under a brilliantly starry sky , breathing cold shafts of early-morning air , thinking of murder .
10 Because my head landed on his teeth it hurt me more than if I 'd smacked down on the bridge of his nose .
11 Then the afternoon , we 'd had lunch anyway I 'd got up out the chair , I was so bloody livid !
12 Once I 'd got on to the continent I 'd walk there if I had to .
13 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 .
14 I 'd got in amongst the sharks , filming them in a feeding frenzy . ’
15 ‘ By when do I have to get out of the house ? ’
16 I had wept back in the office after Mr Charles had told me the Scharnhorst was steaming up the channel unchallenged .
17 Now the last person I had moved on to the hundreds had enormous problems with the stickiness of them .
18 When mum and I had checked in at the travel desk and given in our suit cases we were able to wander around and have something to eat until our flight was called out .
19 I just wish it was all over , like now I had to last out until the thirty first of March , which I did do .
20 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 .
21 Unfortunately the rapport I had built up with the director was wasted , as the commercial he was working on went wrong and had to be done again , so I met my new director over a pie and a pint in my local before shooting started .
22 So I had to put up with the , I had a really shitty cycle and then , my run was , you know okay
23 As happens in any new venture , I discovered that the hours I had to put in at the beginning seemed to outnumber those available in any day .
24 It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence .
25 The parade I had to lead down from the station to the beat was much longer on nights .
26 I had to stock up for the holiday break . ’
27 Erm I had to wriggle out of the scrum
28 I had to wriggle out of the scrum , right , good
29 I had called round at the house early in the week to check on how things had gone over the weekend .
30 Meanwhile , I had to go up into the roof and push down the ballcock when things went wrong .
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