Example sentences of "[pers pn] have to put the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | You — ’ His voice disappeared , and I had to put the phone away from my ear again as he started to hammer the handset against the walls of the call-box . |
2 | I had to put the phone down because of you |
3 | ‘ I decided that I had to put the headmaster in a position to answer and it was this problem that worried me most — more than the outrageous charges against myself and the effect on my family . |
4 | I mean , we 've , I 've , there was a situation these are the roads he 's taking me around now , he had me reverse round the corner which was practically blind , could n't see what was round the corner , so I was edging round , and it was on a hill so I had to do it , every time I stopped I had to put the handbrake on so I did n't roll |
5 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
6 | I have to put the tape on |
7 | Where do you have to put the cocoa on , there is n't an oven down there ? |
8 | Thought you had to put the weight on by law ? |
9 | I thought you had to put the lid on it for , if you did it for quarter of an hour ? |
10 | I 've managed to erm , the first time we went skiing is when we lived in the States , we went to like , er , not dry ski slopes there , but it was like false snow , that 's the same as you erm , they were really , was like eleven years ago , sort of like , technology had n't quite advanced terribly much , you know , and these bindings , you had like , metal clips on the bottom of your boots , and you had to put the thing in and clip the boot , clip the thing round on the skis , to keep your boot on the ski , right , it was n't like toe clips where you shove your foot , |
11 | So imagine you were writing Jayne here J now it 's a very long name , Jayne and you have to put the title on there too , so I could n't put it all in capital letters on this occasion could I ? |
12 | When he come , when his first one on , said she bet nobody , why Alice come last night at six o'clock but I did n't put them on , I was only at the , I take to the shops you know you do , you have to put the name who you 're talking to on |
13 | To do this , of course , you have to put the bird on a much longer line , something falconers call a ‘ creance ’ . |
14 | So you have to put the south ? |
15 | save getting up to see us out , oh I suppose you have to put the catch on do you ? |
16 | She can lift that one , you have to put the tab away from her . |
17 | Where will we have to put the screen , the light and the shadow puppets ? |
18 | We had to put the vehicle into second gear most of the way as we proceeded slowly but with great steadiness and sureness up the steep incline , the hill Arsenio and Osvaldo had walked to their lessons as boys , up which Martinho had run to Fr Molloy the day they burnt the FAKINTIL files while Danu lay concealed in smoke below , the hill Rosa claimed with scorn never to have walked in her life , except she was strongly there , too , in spirit . |
19 | However , the prospect of the difficult trading conditions continuing , when taken together with our heavy debt position , led us at the mid-year to conclude that we had to put the group 's finances onto a more sustainable basis . |
20 | Skipper Alan Kernaghan said : ‘ We have to put the cup game behind us and concentrate on another big game . |
21 | A CIA man rushed out and roared at them angrily , and they had to put the fire out . |
22 | Well he has to put the suit on , try it on in the shop , to make sure it , wear his shoes there cos even , the shoes he 's got might be alright with it . |
23 | This might not stop him reacting still more strongly in favour of theft , from the viewpoints of all who as an anarchist he believes to suffer from the institution of private property ; but otherwise he has to put the danger on the same side of the scales as the slight loss to the old relative , against the great gain to himself . |
24 | I mean it has n't done it any good all the in Amy 's bedroom where where it had to put the copydex it 's all got brownish and , has n't it ? you can see where the . |
25 | But there was no mistake when on 21 April 1823 , while still at work on the Crucifixion he had to put the project on hold . |