Example sentences of "[modal v] to have [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I used to have to sing hymns for them on the wards , they used to love that |
| 2 | Before I used to have to rebel to get my own way . |
| 3 | When we used to go to school in the morning I used to have to lift the bonnet up to see if she |
| 4 | I was living with Desmond and I used to have to give him every goddamn penny . |
| 5 | And then she used to take all those together and she used to have to give the conductor so many tickets each time she went . |
| 6 | Now policemen , we used to have to give these blessed people these tickets , and we used to have a book , and they just merely gave name , age , occupation , which was nearly always labourer , where , and they had to tell us where they came from and where they intended going to , and more often that was from Stowmarket to , or the other way round . |
| 7 | Well she used to have to give some give somebody sixpence which were a lot of money in them days . |
| 8 | You used to have to do er all night from seven till seven erm you was on , called out for er on weekends you had to parade every Sunday morning . |
| 9 | And if me Dad was n't home at work , a out at work , he used to have to do it . |
| 10 | I can remember those sort of things , what we used to have to do . |
| 11 | When you think of the work that the old grocer used to have to do you know , make you a three corner bag out of a bit of paper , to put a pennyworth of pepper in . |
| 12 | And er lace what 's got all the scallops round , well you used to have to do that . |
| 13 | And then on a Sunday morning , we used to erm get up and we used to have to do the cleaning between us . |
| 14 | We used to have to use a generator for our electricity and that used to go off at ten o'clock at night so if there was an operation that needed doing , there were two car batteries that were turned on and you used to have to do it by those . |
| 15 | In the olden days , what did they used to have to do down there ? |
| 16 | There was a half of the premises , and the casual wards there they , course I tell you they used to have to bath and then they used to have to do chopping wood and sort of work like , like that . |
| 17 | Old-fashioned mathematics you used to have to do calculations of how many square feet of linoleum you |
| 18 | ‘ We used to have to promise to do things to get elected , and now we have to promise not to . ’ |
| 19 | And it got , in the end , actually , if I was , if I had to do something that was urgent or I had to go somewhere I used to have to say to her something like , you know , erm oh I better get on , I got a lot to do this morning , or I 'm goi I 've to be shopping and be back in time to cook Jim 's dinner or something like that cos he 's starting , oh I 've got ta have his dinner ready at twelve before he goes to work and if I really was pushed otherwise she would have come in every day . |
| 20 | And when we went to bed early we used to we One used to have to fill the kettle , and then the other one used to have to set the table for next morning for next morning . |
| 21 | Did you used to have to wear a uniform ? |
| 22 | Community midwives used to have to visit every mum , as a minimum , twice a day up to postnatal day three , and then daily up to day ten . |
| 23 | Italy 's greatest modern industrialist , Enrico Mattei , used to have to take to the air in his private jet in order to get away from the telephone and think . |
| 24 | And I can see the o old father when he used to have s want to make the mo the machine immobile , while he did something particular to it , so like you switching the electricity off , well , h he used to have to take the belts off . |
| 25 | And then when that was done you used to have to take it to the field , and put it in we we used to put it in big heaps and then come back , fill it up , and then go out and spread it . |
| 26 | We used to On a Monday , when it was wash day , we used to have to take sandwiches for dinner and we used to have to eat it under the shed in the school playground . |
| 27 | And er Granddad was on maintenance , of course , and I used to have to take his meals , so I used to go past the er picket , along with many other people who were busy coal out of the pit tip . |
| 28 | And as I I recall on a Saturday morning I used to have to take the er one and sixpence each Saturday back to this House , and they used to issue us a little receipt and I remember my father keeping all those receipts until it was paid off . |
| 29 | You used to have to take a er a erm your own cup and erm that was for your for for whatever we had we I do n't know I remember we had lemonade or pop or whether it was tea or we had er we had to take a cup , and er most of us invariably took a a big handkerchief with us . |
| 30 | We had to make and we used to have to take this milk , I used to take it about five o'clock in the morning . |