Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [to-vb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Well yes I had to spend quite a lot of time on the line to her because er her husband 's been quite ill with bladder trouble . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've got pretty good hearing but I had to wait almost a moment before I could imagine I could hear anything . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Well , there was nothing for it , I had to lay down the law in no uncertain terms . |
| 6 | And it was very dark , but I had to go up every night , and I did n't like going up in the dark . ’ |
| 7 | Four other girls , that 's right and of course there were housemaids there to do the work and er yes housemaids and er and er you know and in the , in the kitchen , you see , there was the chef and er a cook , the kitchen maid and er a young man , a boy , well just left school to scrub the tables down and do the floors and that sort of thing and er and whi and er while I , of course I had to go down every day to type , to see what the chef said , what was on the menu and type it , type out the menus , you see , that was one of my jobs and er and if let me think , yes there was quite a number of staff , that 's just in the kitchen |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Oh I 'd forgotten about that , right I had to go back a couple of times did n't I Bev ? |
| 10 | This morning I had to connect up a video for Caroline to use and all the leads , every single lead we 've got , to connect any machine to any machine , were all bundled in like a load missing , and it took me what , five minutes to find the right leads and connect the machines up . |
| 11 | I had to force down the wave of nausea . |
| 12 | She was getting tired of the equipment — the leash and ring and creance — slowing her down , and I had to pluck up the courage to let her fly free for the first time . |
| 13 | Sorry Chief Administrator Officer and I had to provide quite a lot of statistical information which I 'd never done before but nevertheless I , I made a fairly reasonable job of it , I had an assistant and erm I , I think I got fairly well known amongst the councillors and people who mattered and then went . |
| 14 | ‘ Similarly , I did n't want any obvious arms on it so I had to work out a system of manipulators — things that did things , like a grip mechanism or a gun . |
| 15 | ’ And I had to come out a minute early to pay it back . |
| 16 | I had to catch up the axe and hit him with the blunt end , knock him out . |
| 17 | Even without your help I 'd find my family , ’ she said in a low tone , ‘ and it would n't matter if I had to look up every Corosini in the phone book and knock on a hundred doors . ’ |
| 18 | But every time I wanted a piece of wood , I had to cut down a tree . |
| 19 | and like I thought , I had to make up an excuse why I went out ! |
| 20 | I had to knock up the girl in the Post Office to find out where you lived and — here I am . |
| 21 | When I read essays by male Art Historians I had to knock out a lot of crap like when they talk about the rape in inverted commas … |
| 22 | I had to find out a lot of things about you in a short space of time . |
| 23 | Fenella was easily bribed with the promise of an ice-cream on the way home and Lisabeth kept her company by devouring a couple of choc ices , which meant I had to wash down the upholstery of Armstrong 's back seat that evening . |
| 24 | ‘ I had to jump over a hedge , ’ she said , ‘ and I tore my bloomers . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Sister , I had to send out a dresser . |
| 26 | She had to go back the way she had come . |
| 27 | Then everybody wanted it and she had to give up a bit of buttermaking she also did to cope with the demand . |
| 28 | Just the sight of the stamp had been enough to set her heart beating uneasily and she had to fight down the urge to put off reading the words someone had written to her . |
| 29 | She had to wash up the lunch things before she could get started . |
| 30 | As the moist heat of the mouth working at her breast penetrated the soft material of her shirt , that pang repeated itself , over and over again , so that she had to bite back a whimper . |