Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [to-vb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these blows actually ricked my neck and I had to lie on the floor beneath the table until it was okay to come up again . |
| 2 | I had to kneel on the floor to reach it and her fingers fastened in my hair . |
| 3 | When I went home in the school holidays I had to sleep on the bed-settee in the ‘ front room ’ . |
| 4 | I woke again , I had to put on the light . |
| 5 | Feeling that anything I had to say on the subject would drive passengers to reach for the inflight discomfort receptacle , I asked my spellchecker to do it instead . |
| 6 | And of course I had to go on the carpet about that , for laughing . |
| 7 | I moved on from that then I was fifteen then , and me Dad was he was a butty and er so er I had to go on the face then . |
| 8 | ‘ Sometimes I had to sit on the tobacco setter , putting plants in the ground , but one summer was enough for me , ’ she recalls . |
| 9 | The next few gybes were the first I had ever done with speed all the way through the turn , in fact , it happened so quickly that I could n't change the rig fast enough — so then I had to work on the rig change . |
| 10 | I had to rap on the bench to stop you speaking . ’ |
| 11 | AS A COPYWRITER AT the agency responsible for advertising the launch of Femidom I felt I had to comment on the remarks made by your testees ( pun intended ) . |
| 12 | If the filly did go off her legs I should have to start cutting into her windpipe , but I put the thought away from me , For the moment I had to depend on the adrenalin . |
| 13 | I bring out my wide-eyed honest look : ‘ I had to check on the flat . |
| 14 | ‘ For the first month she had to sleep on the settee , and I lay on the floor beside her . |
| 15 | Once there , she had to gamble on the consulting room being unlocked . |
| 16 | She had to stay on the chair , to be safe . |
| 17 | So , they could n't get it into their heads that you had to sit on the floor . |
| 18 | erm if you had to go on the road it would have been different . |
| 19 | Now he might remember I think the court come just before the after Nicola , and the car was going to because I know we had to go on the train to Liverpool and er , I 'd got ta give evidence as well , they made such a palaver ! |
| 20 | He grumbled incessantly about the ‘ disgusting ’ provincial life we had to lead on the island . |
| 21 | From there we went in a funny little train with open trucks which fascinated Tim , until we got to a railway junction where we had to wait on the station for some hours for another train to take us to Calcutta . |
| 22 | Well we had to discuss on the way home in the car that it would be better to have parish council meetings during the day rather than the evening . |
| 23 | They had to rely on the stars instead . |
| 24 | To do this they had to trespass on the plaintiff 's land . |
| 25 | They had to relieve on the wards too . |
| 26 | and erm , then of course when they reached Felixstowe , everything was a bit chaotic because th they had to sleep on the floor in the schools down there |
| 27 | But they had to take on the worry of people that could n't pay them . |
| 28 | She had to leave the floor , they had to walk , that 's right , they had to walk on the concrete floor without tiles on for a long time |
| 29 | Between January and May 1922 no money from any central agency was given to them , so they had to depend on the surplus of local revenues and gifts after the guberniia relief committee had made its own collections . |
| 30 | ‘ Gravity knew how much harder it had to pull on the keys — to make them hit the ground at the same time as the paper . |