Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , certainly , ’ I said , and went to fetch some from the cold locker in the kitchen , thanking my stars that I 'd happened to see where the soft-drink cans were kept . |
| 2 | Need to exactly find out before I knew I 'd got mucked up the whole thing and ca n't send there back either . |
| 3 | Well , I 'd started going down the nick . |
| 4 | I had to race to keep up the momentum but I was forced to rest five minutes in every twenty . |
| 5 | ‘ Because I 've decided to give up the artificial fiction of being myself for the genuine , satisfying falseness of being somebody else . |
| 6 | I 've forgotten to write down the bad dream I had last night . |
| 7 | I 've got to go up the town , like |
| 8 | " I 've got to give up the job . |
| 9 | Over the past chapters , I have sought to show how the combination of broken homes , disturbed domestic backgrounds and lack of a full understanding of the needs and implications of formal education create a family environment unsuited to the requirements of black youth in British education . |
| 10 | If I do n't spot the trouble straight away , the knitting goes tight or the yarn snaps and it causes no end of frustration when I have to stop to sort out the mess . |
| 11 | If I take a bus into town during my lunch break to do some shopping I have to remember to throw away the bus ticket or he 'll ask me where I 've been , and when I say I 've been shopping , he 'll say he does n't believe me . |
| 12 | When I have finished reading out the list , I shall tap on the table . |
| 13 | I have tried to explain why the hon. Member for Gateshead , East and I were talking at cross purposes . |
| 14 | In this article I have tried to tease out the underlying assumptions of educational policies concerned with ‘ race ’ and gender . |
| 15 | There has not been space to say much about the flight from generality in the world outside mind , but I have tried to show how the attempts to flee generality within the mind and to abandon or reduce consciousness must both fail . |
| 16 | To avoid creating a new problem I have had to shorten slightly the northward move of the Clerk Street stop . |
| 17 | I have had to pull up the Minister when he has visited Teesside and talked about companies in Tyneside which are of no interest to people on Teesside . |
| 18 | Then he give up , he got , you know , older and we bought the pony off him and she was used to rounds , you see , and she was used to pulling , after you 'd started going down the Fen she knew all the places . |
| 19 | Dimly doing her best to remember what they 'd taught her at school , Diane believed that she 'd managed to work out the map reference by the time that Ross Aldridge arrived at the Hall . |
| 20 | Take away one twelfth okay just write that down that you 've got to take away the one twelfth . |
| 21 | what , you see , what , what happens you see , I mean all my re all the transactions here are done through banker 's orders you see and the banker 's orders they , they wo n't know who , who ever it is going to be responsible you know , but you 've got to put down the wife and , and yourself , see |
| 22 | But you 've got to check out the odds . |
| 23 | While they were looking round the garden I you 've got to get out the shower quick . |
| 24 | E two , now you 've got to work out the average speed , right try and think roughly what the answer would be , because if you thought of that , then you would know that 's a silly answer , cos look , how far is the journey ? |
| 25 | I take it you 've managed to staighten out the wrinkles in your own affairs , then ? ’ |
| 26 | It was growing dark and she had to squint to make out the details of the room . |
| 27 | The whole bar was up on its feet to watch even before she had finished laying down the opening phrases ; by the time she was into the full fury of the aria , with its demanding coloratura decorations , its elaborate breathing technique and its famous placing of the pauses , we were all applauding and whistling . |
| 28 | Before she had finished hanging out the clothes , there was a glorious double rainbow across the sky . |
| 29 | When she had finished hanging out the washing , before she went for the weekly shop at SavaCentre , Sara applied her lipstick , and around her throat she squirted the toilet water which she had had for three years and never before used . |
| 30 | She had no idea how he knew Kattina was in police custody , or that she had agreed to take over the job . |