Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally I never thought the daft sod would , and so there was nothing for it , I had to do likewise and follow him , a/2 la buff , into the showers . |
| 2 | I had to go upstairs and take the uniform off to brush it , as otherwise it would have been deduced that I had sat in the chair of a gentleman . |
| 3 | Looking back on it I could not figure out what went wrong as I had done exactly as instructed but nobody had ever really said much about fallen trees or currents and especially not in such a small part of the river . |
| 4 | When he asked me if I played I admitted that I had done so but insisted that I really was very bad . |
| 5 | I felt so sad but if I had gone there and seen her , how would I have felt ? |
| 6 | And I had read enough and seen enough from other bits of our work , to feel that a lot of that was to do with coordination of services , or with the fact that services were not packaged to meet individuals ' needs . |
| 7 | I had to come home and tell you immediately . |
| 8 | But he admitted : ‘ I could n't stay with his pace and I had to get away and look after myself . ’ |
| 9 | By the time I had come downstairs and made it over the mali 's trenchworks , Balvinder had polished the bonnet so bright he could curl his moustache in the reflection . |
| 10 | It makes no sense arguing with them , so I had to walk away or get involved in fights . |
| 11 | Er , I 've had a word with Jeremy about decorating , oh Florrie I must apologise I did try to ring you , I think I managed to get everybody else , erm but you were n't there , in and then I , I left it I regret to say , erm but we thought perhaps we ought to have the kitchen re-decorated and I 've had a word with Jereminy , Jereminy , Jeremy and he says about two hundred pounds and I did get permission from some of you and I 've gone ahead and asked him to do it and he said about three weeks , but before we can have that done , in the meantime , the roof leaked again out in the kitchen Erm , so I 've had a word with Peter who was going on holiday and he should be home this week and he said he will look at it as soon as he 's home , so I 'll give him a ring , I 'll try tomorrow night , I 'm out tonight , I 'll try and give him a ring tomorrow . |
| 12 | I 've putted well but have n't holed anything . ’ |
| 13 | I 've putted well but have n't holed anything . ’ |
| 14 | I 've more knowledge of life than you , I 've lived more and betrayed more and seen more betrayed . |
| 15 | In fact I have gone further and said a " mixed " crew was , in my view , infinitely better than , any " national " crew , one of the reasons , possibly , for the high proportion of Commonwealth crews was my established policy of spreading my selection net as widely as I could in view of the poor cooperation of the Groups ; to this end I literally plagued the various HQs in London — the Aussies at Kodak House etc . |
| 16 | As an adult in Panama I have stepped aside and contemplated the New World equivalent of the driver ants that I had feared as a child in Africa , flowing by me like a crackling river , and I can testify to the strangeness and wonder . |
| 17 | I have to go upstairs and get it . |
| 18 | ‘ I have to go now and get my husband 's supper . |
| 19 | It is what I have done today that counts . ’ |
| 20 | I have wept copiously and shared my feelings with a woman , that is , my intended . |
| 21 | I simply wish to testify for the legitimacy of the kind of hard tempo evidence I have brought forward and to put it into practice , so that we can begin to renew a sensitivity to areas of stylized feeling from the past which have gradually dropped from view . |
| 22 | I said , ‘ You know I have to stand here and watch you stop breathing if we do that , and as a matter of fact , you 'll gasp for air , and you 'll be watching us , and you 'll see us go away … ’ |
| 23 | In my experience , the only occasions when I have stalled unexpectedly and known what was happening at the time , have been in very fierce stubble fires and dust devils . |
| 24 | She has travelled widely and has lived in four countries in the Commonwealth . |
| 25 | But she has eased away and stands right in front of me , as close as you can get without touching , and her teeth are clenched and she almost glares into my face and her fist punches against my stomach as she says , ‘ Listen , you , ’ like it really hurts her . |
| 26 | We are all glad that she has arrived safely and has all her faculties ! |
| 27 | She has worked tirelessly and helped raise millions of pounds for the charities she has taken on . |
| 28 | She has published widely and has also produced three children . |
| 29 | ‘ Do you ever wish you 'd farmed rather than going in for horses ? ’ |
| 30 | I must n't have been out of that office half an hour and I 'd , she 'd rung here and left a message to say I could go on it . |