Example sentences of "had get [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All but he wanted to know how Stephen had got on with the police . |
| 2 | In the closing stages of the tournament I felt that the message had got through to the players about staying on their feet , and there were less penalties given for this offence than in the pool games . |
| 3 | He thought it a great feat that she had got in from the Point in an hour and a quarter . |
| 4 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
| 5 | But she had got out of the dining room too fast for it to happen . |
| 6 | Until they had got out of the car to phone , Maxim had never seen Sims standing up . |
| 7 | It was what , half-consciously , he had been longing to do since he had got out of the van and talked to Manciple . |
| 8 | Only now , in my old age , I wish I had got down from the table and put my arms round his neck and kissed him . |
| 9 | He had got down from the table half-way through tea and was sitting on a chair in the doorway , looking droopy and listless . |
| 10 | Then they 'd returned to the stable and George had got back to the House about midnight . |
| 11 | None of the people who worked at the hotel could explain how the shoe had got back into the room . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | I 've got catarrh , in fact I had to get up in the night and put some there |
| 14 | You had to get up in the morning and see that there was plenty of a great pot of of hot water , boiling water . |
| 15 | We had to get on to the barge before these two characters unwittingly alerted the army sentries across the road , or before the Friends of the Tourists turned up looking for us . |
| 16 | We had to get through to the ministry that in informatics , you do n't have originals and copies , you just have the information issued at a certain time by the sender . |
| 17 | He had to get out of the school . |
| 18 | I had to get out of the business . |
| 19 | In fact , when he drove us home he was in such a state I had to get out of the van . |
| 20 | Wycliffe was alone and he had to get out of the car to rouse a sleeping dog in the roadway . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 22 | She suddenly knew she had to get out of the house . |
| 23 | Tracey Anne McLaughlan told Sheriff David Smith : ‘ He said I had to get out of the house , that Mr Kelbie was riddled with AIDS . |
| 24 | And you had to get out on the floor that catered for your particular dominant moral propensity , and stay there for the whole of Eternity . |
| 25 | I do n't know how he got out , I mean our road is so difficult anyway , of course there wa , that night there were two , yeah two when them , he had to get out in the morning , but er , I mean he did it , but I expect it was a struggle |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ The DI 's compliments , sir , but he had to get back to the station . |
| 28 | We then had to get back to the car , and after a detour that took in just about all of the countryside , we arrive back at the airport for the flight home . |