Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] have [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I found I had to be very firm with her , or she 'd have run rings around me , and how would she learn ? |
| 2 | These phrases do , however , have the ring of truth in an aesthetic sense — or rather there was an aesthetic process involved which had to some extent its own story . |
| 3 | Rachel found she had to almost bite her tongue to prevent herself making some comment . |
| 4 | In the UK both PC World and Business Superstore found they had to ‘ tweak ’ the concept to convince more reticent Britons that the trend is here to stay . |
| 5 | In my lecture tours round the squadrons I sought these crews out and , almost without exception , found they had in fact volunteered for PFF but had their applications rejected by their CO . |
| 6 | Moreover , if banks wish to attract more borrowers , they might well consider how they can soften the rather forbidding image which we found they have for so many people . |
| 7 | Indeed , the more he thought about it , the less appetite he found he had for it . |
| 8 | When he walked into a crowded bar he always found he had at least half the bar to himself . |
| 9 | It was also close to the end of the shift and this legal reduction prevented them having to ‘ go over ’ , as well as getting them out of considerable paperwork later , and road traffic accidents are particularly disliked because of the amount of paperwork they involve . |
| 10 | He believed it had to be interpreted . |
| 11 | No words passed between them , and as his strides lengthened she had to almost run to keep up with him . |
| 12 | But if you hammered you had to careful to miss the joints : the felloes were dowelled together and if you hit one of the joints the wrong way , the dowel was certain to break . |
| 13 | But Hebbert was there , guide in hand , picking out the classics on the Left Wall ( he reasoned it had to be a route on the left wall to provide a contrast to the big slab route just completed ) . |
| 14 | The fellow loudly claimed he had in his battered , leather coffer some of the most marvellous relics of Christendom : ‘ One of Charlemagne 's teeth ! ’ he yelled . |
| 15 | We realised we had to be able to rely on good raw ingredients — that 's why we started farming . ’ |
| 16 | Jan Holt , director , explains : ‘ I realised something had to be done when , on a recent trip abroad , I was mistaken for the hotel lift attendant . ’ |
| 17 | I was 5′ 10½&in in height in bare feet and weighed soaking wet no more than 12½ stone and since I played in the park , usually at open side wing forward , and since I played against genuinely big men , it therefore followed I had to be galvanically quick . |
| 18 | Imagine the horror on my beloved 's face when he discovered I had in fact flung in the rubbish his much prized and read collection of Guitarist magazines ! |
| 19 | Thirdly , the defendant complains , the judge failed to deal with the problem which the jury indicated they had on returning to court after an hour 's deliberation . |
| 20 | If you ask people to describe the times in their lives when they learned something about themselves it is often when someone else told them about the impact or bearing they observed they had in a situation . |
| 21 | This amendment addressed what has by now become a generalized practice and problem throughout the shipping world . |
| 22 | I would have some idiot life in another country because some medieval cleric in Iran decided I had to be killed . ’ |
| 23 | When I started I had to right back to the very beginning and start from three letter words . |
| 24 | ‘ I would have preferred to have given them a run chase but I then decided we had to be positive and get whatever we could out of the match , ’ said Moxon . |
| 25 | At the eleventh hour , the Government decided something had to be done , and fast . |
| 26 | In contrast , the women who were booked at general practitioner units and delivered there had by far the lowest perinatal mortality rate ( 3.3/1000deliveries ) . |
| 27 | And the clothes felt good as she trailed her had along them — thin cottons — muslin 's — fine wool 's — nothing synthetic . |
| 28 | Jacky Lee , it seemed , had arrived in time , as an eighteen year old , to be part of Peter Thomson 's British Open swansong , but seven years later , Queenslander Thomson decided he had at least one more British Open title to win in him . |
| 29 | But Yard chiefs decided he had to be moved . |
| 30 | To be sure of providing physicists with details of the world beyond the standard model , the SSC 's designers decided it had to be able to make particles with masses of one trillion electron volts ( 1TeV ) . |