Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet every time I thought I 'd broken out of that cage you pushed me back again . ’ |
| 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 | I 'd have dithered and I 'd have got tired and I 'd gone off of |
| 4 | I 'd gone off of it until we opened that one on Sunday when you came over and I 'd finished it by Tuesday , I was getting quite hooked on it |
| 5 | By the time I was 22 , I 'd run up nearly £4,000 in debt , and was beginning to fall behind with the payments because I rested sending money off to pay for clothes I 'd fallen out of love with . |
| 6 | It was almost as if the independent life I 'd built up of necessity was being disrupted by Grant 's presence . |
| 7 | An offer I could n't refuse , Dee-Dee had said ; and I 'd thought only of money . |
| 8 | I 'd got out of that because by the time I got home she was gone . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 'd pulled out of NARCOG after a blazing row with Hurley . |
| 11 | I 'd slipped out of bed , leaving Margot the launderess and her sister Phoebe gently snoring ( they sleep on either side to keep me warm ) , and crept downstairs to my secret chamber , behind the high table in the Great Hall . |
| 12 | When I had run out of paper , I bowed to the boys and departed . |
| 13 | More camera tips , but I had run out of film and mimed to avoid denting his enthusiasm . |
| 14 | Mike Powell was handing over to me and in the general melee of the race he had run out of his box and I had run out of my lane , so we were disqualified twice ! |
| 15 | I had run out of ideas ; ideas do n't come as easily as all that . |
| 16 | But towards the end of my anorexic period I think I was verging upon mental illness in the sense that even those who disbelieve in it might accept , that is , I had become out of touch with reality as perceived by others and unable to cope with demands of everyday life . |
| 17 | The name of Carl August of Saxe-Weimar figured largely , but I had heard neither of him nor of it . |
| 18 | But anyway we had this one projector which I had winkled out of this friend of mine , and we stuck it up on a couple of stools and hung some sheets up behind the corner of the room which served as a stage , and with some incense burning in the corner an atmosphere was created . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I had expected better of you . ’ |
| 22 | I had acted out of good faith and in terms of what I thought were the best interests of my client . |
| 23 | ( I thought I had got out of this by saying it was a firm 's car park so it would be the same four drivers . ) |
| 24 | I had dropped out of regular English teaching and set up a special-needs unit in the school . |
| 25 | I wondered whether I had slipped out of her consciousness . |
| 26 | I was n't watched closely ; I had opted out of the ( sexual ) competition with my sisters ; and some of my eccentricities were tolerated on the grounds that my presence in the house was only temporary and , in the long run , of little relevance to its essential life . |
| 27 | But by the time I saw my husband I had chickened out of confessing the price and told him I bought it in a charity shop for 50p — how gullible can husbands be ? |
| 28 | Soon I had come out of the field and was walking along the path opposite where my home would be . |
| 29 | Hilda and he were in London on a spree , Viola and I had come out of the theatre for the interval — Noel Coward , Rattigan . |
| 30 | Pressed against Masha 's raincoated buxomness , I wondered at how unaccountably desire had all but vanished — though I had dreamed often of our reunion . |