Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I just wish it was all over , like now I had to last out until the thirty first of March , which I did do .
2 Once I 'd accomplished the first stages of training , getting her to sit still on my fist , I had to move on to the next stage : getting her to feed there .
3 So I had to put up with the , I had a really shitty cycle and then , my run was , you know okay
4 As happens in any new venture , I discovered that the hours I had to put in at the beginning seemed to outnumber those available in any day .
5 The parade I had to lead down from the station to the beat was much longer on nights .
6 I had to stock up for the holiday break . ’
7 Erm I had to wriggle out of the scrum
8 I had to wriggle out of the scrum , right , good
9 Meanwhile , I had to go up into the roof and push down the ballcock when things went wrong .
10 I had to go on to the usual horror .
11 But , nevertheless , for me eternity was not now , and I had to go on into the future and in this world .
12 ‘ Because I only found the portrait — I was only able to identify the man in her diary when I had to go out to the cottage last Saturday .
13 Then I had to go down to the station to get somebody and by the time I came back , most of the stuff had gone .
14 I had to go back to the room , as if I needed to tell the place where I lived of my feeling .
15 So I thanked Mr. Lennis for his frankness , explained that I had to go back to the bank to deal with some work , and departed .
16 I , I could feel that I have , I had to go back to the bath to the toilet quite often .
17 I had to go back into the van to collect my Certificate ( proof ) .
18 I were just so psyched up on Wednesday and then I had to go in on the Friday before so I did n't
19 I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo .
20 I 've got catarrh , in fact I had to get up in the night and put some there
21 ‘ When it was time for me to fire the very pistol , I had to get up from the wireless operator 's seat and had to move my parachute — which was always as close to my feet as possible and instead of lifting it up by the canvas carrying handle , I lifted it up by the metal handle ( the rip cord ) and so had a bundle of silk to get out of the way .
22 Did not get the job — dear , former [ xx ] Manager , drove me up there ( 6 miles north of Perth ) and then on to Dunkeld where he insisted on giving me lunch — he had originally thought of taking me to Gleneagles , but I had to get back to the outplacement people — and did so , only to find ‘ my ’ counsellor had , for the third time , failed to keep an appointment with me .
23 In fact , when he drove us home he was in such a state I had to get out of the van .
24 I had to get out of the business .
25 ‘ I looked for a marshall 's post , but the guy 's glove prevented him pulling out the safety pin in the extinguisher and I had to get out of the car and do it for him ! ’
26 Tracey Anne McLaughlan told Sheriff David Smith : ‘ He said I had to get out of the house , that Mr Kelbie was riddled with AIDS .
27 I had to make up for the ravages of time .
28 They did n't have any money either at this point , so to get them out , I had to slip back into the States without anybody knowing and sell off everything we owned — all the furniture and household stuff .
29 I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another .
30 And I could n't remember it was forty four and my mind went totally blank and I had to walk out of the exam for over half an hour with a and I could n't remember a thing and went back in .
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