Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't got the change to ring you from the tube , and I 'd had to rush out of the house to get there because I woke up late . ’ |
| 2 | As irony would have it , however , an examiner that I did have passed on to Rowse the information that , in the paper on Political Institutions , in which I did badly , I had vigorously attacked Rowse 's pamphlet on ‘ The Question of the House of Lords ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ I invented having to go out on that instant . |
| 4 | ‘ So would you have if you 'd had to put up with half of what I 've been through in the past ! |
| 5 | She seemed to have jumped up from nowhere . |
| 6 | She seemed to have come down to earth , leaving behind the soap-opera image that she had once appeared to be caught up in . |
| 7 | She happened to have dropped in to Charles 's to leave some shopping on her way over here . |
| 8 | She resented having to run out to the telephone , in the middle of this useful busyness , wasting time over something that was just a routine . |
| 9 | It was so cold that anything you said had frozen up before leaving your mouth . |
| 10 | On the other hand , there are philistines who apparently believe that all new ideas , no matter how subtle , can be conveyed in the terms they happened to have picked up at their mother 's knee , and reject any attempt to expand the language into areas beyond the nursery . |
| 11 | They claimed to have killed up to 200 government soldiers , especially in the provinces of Chalatenango , Morazan and Usulutan where fighting had been fiercest , and to have " neutralized " the main Ilopango air base near the capital , San Salvador . |
| 12 | White flung the pair of lemon panties he 'd had scrunched up in his coat pocket on to the arm of the chair I was sitting in . |
| 13 | He 'd had to walk on for quite a bit after that and it was quite late in the day when it occurred to him that the villagers had probably been just having a joke with him and that they would no doubt be feeling anxious by then and starting to worry . |
| 14 | ‘ So he wandered the countryside for a long time , starving and having to beg for food , and sleeping in barns and under trees , and eventually he found a little town where all the beggars and old people he 'd had thrown out of the city had gone ; they were very poor , of course , but by all helping each other they had more than the merchant had . |
| 15 | He 'd had to break off for lack of an English verb that he remembered as soon as Bacci pronounced it . |
| 16 | With his low-crowned hat and antiquated clerical costume , his broad scholarship and unenthusiastic divinity , his uncompromising insistence on ancient rights ( especially in chapter ) , his belief that land and ‘ the funds ’ were the only proper investment for the college and industrial shares a new form of the South Sea Bubble , he seemed to have stepped out of the eighteenth century . |
| 17 | He did n't feel up to the mildest of rebuffs from her ; he seemed to have gone back to a relationship like an adolescent infatuation , reading rejection in the most innocent of her actions . |
| 18 | ‘ You could have had a hundred casual affairs , and I 'd have adjusted to them somehow and tried to make you fall in love with me , but the thought that you 'd loved someone else and still loved him , because it seemed to have gone on over the years , periodically resumed … |
| 19 | It was a torture which was part of the school 's underground mythology , but something he assumed had died out at the same time as the belief that bullying was inevitable , harmless and good for the victim 's character . |
| 20 | Of late , though , after his meetings with Eleanor , he had had to go on to his third level of fantasy . |
| 21 | He had had to go out on exercise one night , and was on duty another , poor thing . |
| 22 | This one , he said , pointing to Bobby , he had had to pick up in the street . |