Example sentences of "i have [verb] [adv prt] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His a terrible , so we did n't go near him right through on the playing field , and then Katherine , I found to get , I sat , found a way to get them near Matthew and then Katherine said , I tickled him on the back , and I 'd kept on doing that . . |
| 2 | If whatever happened to Summerchild that year had n't happened — if he had n't been found lying with the garbage in Spring Gardens — if Millie had n't stopped playing in the orchestra — if I 'd gone on seeing her week by week — grown up with her — become easy with her — married her — then Timmy would still have a mother at home . |
| 3 | ‘ My mam would have had a fit if I 'd gone out dressed like that . |
| 4 | But then , she thought guiltily , maybe if I 'd gone out to work I would n't have interfered so much in their lives . |
| 5 | I think they were playing on the , the sheet I 'd sent back does n't say that we had n't had any official conformations , still did n't , although we had , had it on the telephone we had n't had anything written . |
| 6 | ‘ There I was being really good , ’ Leslie says , ‘ I 'd given up smoking seven months before I became pregnant to get it all out of my body . |
| 7 | A more substantial objection is why neither Karen nor I had dived in to try and save Dennis . |
| 8 | I still needed money so I had to carry on working the streets . |
| 9 | I would sing to myself , perfectly content to be alone in my own dream world , imagining myself on television receiving an award for beating a world record and I would see my name and picture in the ‘ Guinness Book of Records ’ on the high bookshelf in my brother 's room where I could not reach it , and yet , through all those mornings of endless riding round the yard , I never once counted just how many times I had ridden around to see if I had beaten the previous morning 's record , so sure was my conviction of success ! |
| 10 | I had grown up believing that my father had been a great patriot who had died for Ireland , but she told me that Dermot was n't my father , and that my father was someone who hated the Irish and the idea of Irish independence . " |
| 11 | In his autobiography A Little Learning ( 1964 ) Waugh was to observe that at the age of sixteen he noticed that his publisher father , ‘ whom I had grown up to accept with complete simplicity ’ , was in fact a highly gifted actor in everything he did . |
| 12 | I had to give up caddying when I left school to take up other jobs , but carrying the bags was in my blood and by the time I was twenty-four I was back to caddying full-time . |
| 13 | ‘ When we got married for instance , I had to give up teaching because there was a regulation which said husbands and wives could n't both teach and of course it was the wives who left . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ On the Friday night I had stayed up to watch the late film , and at 3.30am I decided that it was n't worthwhile going to bed as I had to be at John 's house at seven o'clock . |
| 15 | He really wanted me to leave the Order earlier , but I said I had to go on helping . |
| 16 | After that I realised that — like anyone else — I had to go on earning the money . |
| 17 | I had to go round planning to be some rich corpo . |
| 18 | Suddenly , one of the organisers called my number , I had to take off my socks and shoes as you had to do the jump in bare feet and I had to go over to get weighed again on different scales to make sure I was using the correct cord ( they were very safety conscious about every aspect of the jump ) . |
| 19 | In the end , I had to go out to milk my goats . |
| 20 | So I had to go out shoplifting every day then . |
| 21 | I sent back a tirade of bitter invective , written during a long , lonely evening when Richard was dining in college : did she think that because I had given up working for my degree I was necessarily isolated from intelligent thought ? |
| 22 | If I should cry , trying to express the inexpressible , that I had walked the wind with archangels , she would have been worried and annoyed ; and if I had gone on to say that I had forfeited those heights and lived now in an unremitting shadowless glare of exposure in a runnel of Hell , she would have feared for my mental health . |
| 23 | After the first morning when it appeared in the garden I had gone on giving it food . |
| 24 | ‘ Close them , ’ she had cried , ‘ you 'll let in the dust ’ , and I had gone down to drink citron pressé with her in the shade . |
| 25 | Two-up and with half fuel , we briefly was over a thousand feet per minute of the VSI before I had to throttle back to slide into position behind the struggling Cessna 150 camera ship . |
| 26 | After a simple pre-take off litany ( minus the F for flaps ) which should be familiar to any Cessna 150 pilot , the Aircoupe accelerated down Halfpenny Green 's Runway 34 in a formation take-off , becoming airborne in a few hundred feet before I had to throttle back to keep in station with the hard-climbing 172 camera ship . |
| 27 | With that my respondent turned and attacked the ice with such ferocity that I had to step back to avoid the avalanche of detritus . |
| 28 | Sometimes , after I 'd given them back their money , the customer would open the palm of their hand and I would discover that one of the coins I had passed over had suddenly disappeared so I ended up having to give them even more bees and honey . |
| 29 | ‘ I had to rush around trying to find a farmer with a cart who might be going where I wanted , ’ Katz lamented , his woebegone countenance matching his sorry tale . |
| 30 | He was a tall , heavily built man , and I had to look up to see the bearded face . |