Example sentences of "i have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] 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 | how much was n't held until after I 'd gone up for the money for Matthew 's back . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 'd gone out on the boat |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I 'd walked up from the village under a brilliantly starry sky , breathing cold shafts of early-morning air , thinking of murder . |
| 9 | Because my head landed on his teeth it hurt me more than if I 'd smacked down on the bridge of his nose . |
| 10 | Then the afternoon , we 'd had lunch anyway I 'd got up out the chair , I was so bloody livid ! |
| 11 | Once I 'd got on to the continent I 'd walk there if I had to . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd got in amongst the sharks , filming them in a feeding frenzy . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ By when do I have to get out of the house ? ’ |
| 15 | I had wept back in the office after Mr Charles had told me the Scharnhorst was steaming up the channel unchallenged . |
| 16 | Now the last person I had moved on to the hundreds had enormous problems with the stickiness of them . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I just wish it was all over , like now I had to last out until the thirty first of March , which I did do . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | So I had to put up with the , I had a really shitty cycle and then , my run was , you know okay |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The parade I had to lead down from the station to the beat was much longer on nights . |
| 25 | I had to stock up for the holiday break . ’ |
| 26 | Erm I had to wriggle out of the scrum |
| 27 | I had to wriggle out of the scrum , right , good |
| 28 | I had called round at the house early in the week to check on how things had gone over the weekend . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , I had to go up into the roof and push down the ballcock when things went wrong . |
| 30 | I had to go on to the usual horror . |