Example sentences of "[pron] had [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wish I had somewhere to hide . |
| 2 | I had nowhere to cook . |
| 3 | She said : ‘ He asked about the bureau and I said I had nowhere to put the things from it so he went into the wardrobe and cleared a shelf and said put it in there . |
| 4 | I arrived late at night so I had nowhere to go , but I met a greenkeeper who told me I could sleep in the greenkeeper 's hut on the course . |
| 5 | Every morning I climbed into the BMW and swept off , just as Dennis had once done , except that once I reached the Banbury Road I had nowhere to go . |
| 6 | ( But ) I went back to them , well I had nowhere to go … my mother and father said I could stay as long as I wanted . |
| 7 | I had nowhere to go when I left Bullwood . |
| 8 | I had nowhere to go and I kept getting thrown out of places . |
| 9 | She said I could n't stay with her , that her aunty was in the house , things like that , so I had nowhere to go . |
| 10 | I — I could n't just go in and — and I had nowhere to go so … ’ |
| 11 | I could have run away , but I had no money and , even if I had been able to borrow it , I should still have been too frightened because I had nowhere to run to . |
| 12 | I found work but I did n't tell them I had nowhere to stay , that when it was night time , I got on the night buses and stayed there until morning and then went back to work . |
| 13 | I suddenly knew I had either to behave like a shocked girl who had still been at school that time the year before ; or like an adult . |
| 14 | At Eton the different houses and classrooms were spread over a large area , and in the next day or two I had somehow to find out where and when which masters were teaching me what subjects . |
| 15 | I could not see , then , how I might press on with this bantering ; in fact , I decided it best to call a halt to the matter and , pretending to remember something I had urgently to attend to , excused myself , leaving my employer looking rather bemused . |
| 16 | I had conceived my fictional , pastoral church within which I now spent so much of my time during an imaging session at the Centre , but I had yet to see it in reality . |
| 17 | With less than two hours to go , I had yet to design the perfect slime beast and I was beginning to have panic attacks . |
| 18 | You could buy salmon , which I suspect could have come from the King 's Reach skirting Balmoral ) for 2/6d a pound ; and there was no dearth of whisky for which I had yet to acquire a taste . |
| 19 | I was certainly not ill , although I had yet to recover from the effects of the operation and was far weaker than I had been BC , but I was well . |
| 20 | I painted the head of a dog on the canvas in red paint because I had yet to learn I was not a Canis . |
| 21 | But I had yet to come across an illustration of this process . |
| 22 | I thanked him , he saluted , and the two of them walked on My guard said that I was crazy ; I could have run into terrible trouble , but I had been lucky and now I had only to choose a beautiful new bicycle . |
| 23 | Nearly every farmer had a barrel of the stuff in his cow house in those days and I had only to go into the corner and turn the tap . |
| 24 | By the time I had finished my Kachin fieldwork I had only to attend an animal sacrifice as a passive observer and then notice how the meat of the sacrifice was shared out among " the congregation and I could know , even down to quite line detail , the precise hierarchy and mutual relationship of everyone present , which might be thirty or more individuals altogether . |
| 25 | If there was anything she could do , I had only to ask . |
| 26 | I had only to make it to Dover and then I could sleep on the ferry to France . |
| 27 | ‘ You once said if there was anything you could do to help me I had only to come to you and ask . |
| 28 | If I interpreted it correctly — ‘ Nothing is definite , you must interpret the words ’ , Liese said — I had only to keep lying on my bed of North Shore nails for it to turn ultimately into a pillow of foam . |
| 29 | I had only to look at her , and I knew she was glad . |
| 30 | I had only to look at the farmer 's face to know that the cow was worse . |