Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] to [be] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Say , well I 'm awfully sorry I 'm off at five but I got to be back at eight . |
| 2 | Punctuated by his own guffaws , he continued : ‘ Said ‘ No , sorry , Mr Meadows ; come this Wednesday I got to be out courting strong like . ’ |
| 3 | Cos I happened to be out on Road , when it happened |
| 4 | This was mainly due to the fact that when she was in residence , I contrived to be out . |
| 5 | On one of our south coast patrols I managed to be in at the kill on what turned out to be one of our more amusing combined operations . |
| 6 | Unfortunately the powerful television lights kept melting the glue , and in spite of extra large dollops of the stuff , the G from ‘ Winning ’ fell off every night and I had to be up a ladder fixing it back again at six the next morning . |
| 7 | I had to be out wide and then turn in |
| 8 | But I had to be back before dark still , and in the fairly late afternoon I had to change buses at Hyde Park Corner . |
| 9 | One family gave me a day off every month , told me I had to be back before nine in the evening and checked my bag when I left to see if I had n't robbed anything . |
| 10 | To come somewhere like this would have been better , somewhere where I had to be in at a certain time , where I could n't have certain people come in . |
| 11 | We had an afternoon and evening once a week ; and I had to be in at nine , not a minute later . |
| 12 | Th there was sort of decorations on the saddles and things like that you know , and er , er , they had this firm and it was up of course , well , and it , to tell how far it was I had to be in by seven o'clock and I used to run it all the way . |
| 13 | ( As I told you , I had to be along with these owd horses and cows in the morning about six o'clock . |
| 14 | I could see Malta spread out like a map 15,000 feet below me , and I longed to be down there — just to lie still and die peacefully . |
| 15 | I longed to be off , I wanted to be gone before anything could prevent it . |
| 16 | I wanted to be up . |
| 17 | I wanted to be out , quickly . |
| 18 | And that 's when my life changed , that 's when I was let into the world I wanted to be in and got paid to do something creative , which I 'd always wanted to do . ’ |
| 19 | When I calmed down I realized I was defending an organization I refused to be in , though I had nothing good to say for the one I 'd left it for . |
| 20 | Within minutes of the disaster , Blairman 's offered me a desk and telephone , Mallett 's provided porters and storage for the 60 years ' accumulation which had to be out of Mount Street in two days . |
| 21 | Samantha sank on to her bed to show the helpless state she expected to be in by the evening . |
| 22 | She had guessed it would look better — more disarming — not to be carrying a bag ; as if she expected to be out only for a short time . |
| 23 | From the taut state of her stomach muscles and the general pain she seemed to be in , they had assumed that an ulcer had burst in her stomach . |
| 24 | She said that people had commented on how she seemed to be back to her usual self , and that things seemed to be going very well with her brother and sister-in-law . |
| 25 | She seemed to be out of touch . |
| 26 | That is , unless you happened to be about to meet them across a conference table . |
| 27 | So if you happened to be out of the house working it was too bad , unless you got a house cleaner to put your name down for you . |
| 28 | His girlfriend , a dealer too , would give him a bored hard look , if she happened to be around . |
| 29 | It was basically a group of people who happened to be around but very soon we all had titles and were constantly organising and re-organising the creating divisions and systems and methods . |
| 30 | Before any plank was put into place , MacAlpine and Tom and anyone else who happened to be about held a consultation over it . |