Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd grappled up the slope on foot just before and knew how steep and icy its surface was and which of the bigger rocks had to be dodged because they would foul the car 's underside . |
| 2 | I tried to say that I understood , that I 'd felt much the same way when I lost Jess . |
| 3 | Wait a minute — out of the corner of my eye at Temple Meads Station , when I 'd blinked away the vision of Mum swallowing mud , I 'd seen a sign on the window of the buffet : Vacancies . |
| 4 | After a while , though , when I 'd turned down the side-street where the house was I hoped ) , there were no more sounds to frighten me , and as a result of course I grew much more afraid of the stuffed , dripping silence . |
| 5 | My mother could n't believe I 'd turned down the highest single accolade known to show business aside from This Is Your Life ( which I 've also managed to avoid by dint of a pact with the reclusive man with whom I share my digs ) . |
| 6 | I did n't have to think — I was leaping downhill like a goddamned goat before I 'd summed up the situation : which was they intended to rob me . |
| 7 | That was the filthy coastal town smelling of fish oil where I 'd taken over the driving . |
| 8 | I 'd woken up the next morning at Aisha 's place , not convinced that I was really in London : her flat was like any flat at home with the same smell , the same coloured ottomans and rugs , the same pictures on the walls , the brass tray in the middle of the room , and the loud shrieks and wails of her two children puncturing the air . |
| 9 | Will I have to strip down the tank and start again ? |
| 10 | do I have to look out the old greatcoat , woolly hat , scarf and gloves of my hippy days ? |
| 11 | He smilingly proffered me a cup of watered wine in one of the goblets I had hidden away the previous evening . |
| 12 | I had to hold down the wheelbarrow by sitting on it while taking off my hat , changing into my jeans , and putting on goggles and a smog-mask . |
| 13 | Just as I had fired up the cooker the cat rod that had caused me all the grief earlier was off again . |
| 14 | However , I said I would try so I put on my best uniform , nicely pressed , and as I paraded in front of him I said I had turned up the hem of my skirt and did he think it was too short ? |
| 15 | ‘ But I would always have regretted it if I had turned down the chance to find out whether I could make it at this level . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ All right , ’ I had said listlessly , disconcerting my mother considerably , since I was perfectly aware that she had expected me to turn down this preposterous proposal with as much intractability as I had turned down the others . |
| 17 | I had wrung out the Spidersuit and Y-fronts and hung them over a Bible suck thinking how He would just have to lump a bare arse on His books for one night . |
| 18 | I wish I had summoned up the nerve to smile back . |
| 19 | I had lost even the will to be a coward . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's a ‘ 59 Stratocaster , although I 've got a different neck on it now , because I 'd worn the original one to the point where every time I re-fretted it , I had to fill in the holes ! |
| 21 | Yet I felt at last I had straightened out the time that had buckled when I lost all my writing . |
| 22 | I was surrounded by a crowd of shouting , gesticulating Malts , who pulled at my parachute , lifted my head and drove me so furious that I had to give up the dying idea in order to concentrate completely on kicking every Malt who came within range . |
| 23 | By now it was early afternoon and Rick ( who had been catching consistently on the corn ) and I decided we were getting peckish , so , being nominated ’ chef of the week ’ I had to sort out the dinner . |
| 24 | It was a little bit awkward , because she wanted to spend a long weekend there in July , and I had to sort out the dates with Alex to make sure they did n't clash . |
| 25 | Well , there was nothing for it , I had to lay down the law in no uncertain terms . |
| 26 | Six o'clock in the morning , I had to clean out the Danish piggeries . |
| 27 | ‘ He was livid , as though I had stirred up the printers against him and come to say ‘ I told you so ’ once they 'd walked out . ’ |
| 28 | he and he were like this in the water I had to go down the bank I grabbed hold of him in the middle of his back , just turfed him out . |
| 29 | I had done all the cooking and was waiting for my husband to come home . |
| 30 | I had to force down the wave of nausea . |