Example sentences of "[adv] i had [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I put away my little brown bottle of herbal remedies , turned my back upon much I had learned at the Centre , and before leaving for Hungary and all that forbidden goulash , took three quite definite steps . |
| 2 | So I had to go to the , like the job centre and they offered me this , which I did n't really fancy at the time . |
| 3 | So I had to stand outside the door |
| 4 | So I had to walk from the , you know the flats half way down Ashton Lane ? |
| 5 | But , at fourteen , my job was to er I had to fetch the coal and the sticks , to light the er stove that held the irons , and er they they were er d I I Like I had to go to the coalhouse which was down fourteen steps , the steps were wooden ones , outside the upper floor , where we worked . |
| 6 | Because when I went up I had to climb over the steel plate . |
| 7 | Now I had graduated to the Birmingham-rug and Dufy-print circuit , but I wondered what I had sacrificed to do it . |
| 8 | Well I had to climb over the wall and fucking jump there . |
| 9 | When I went overseas I had graduated from the " Pat and Giggle " stage and could join those who had served several years in Mespot . |
| 10 | Then I had to go into the Royal Marsden . |
| 11 | The next few gybes were the first I had ever done with speed all the way through the turn , in fact , it happened so quickly that I could n't change the rig fast enough — so then I had to work on the rig change . |
| 12 | I had to run to the end of the course with a hoop on my head then put the ring on a pole , then on the way back I had to arrange the bean bags in the right colour hoops , then get in an old potato bag and jump to the middle of the course then I had to skip to the end . |
| 13 | ‘ Sometimes I had to sit on the tobacco setter , putting plants in the ground , but one summer was enough for me , ’ she recalls . |
| 14 | I told them how I had worked on the problem and now one of them had ruined my theory ! |
| 15 | All those long nights when I had sat in the canteen I had never realized what was happening just a few yards away on the Tartan track . |
| 16 | I was confused and still worried that there might be horses and that I had not changed my bloomers which were wet from where I had fallen in the icy fish . |
| 17 | Soon it would reach the place where I had turned to the right . |
| 18 | ‘ I had scaled magic heights and found obscurantism , absence of hope , a world infinitely darker than I had ever imagined possible from where I had stood in the Gorbals . ’ |
| 19 | Which was why I had bowed to the imperative of Deacon Billingsley 's dishonesty , because otherwise I would have lost her . |