Example sentences of "had [to-vb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I had to ramble about something — the list has been really quiet the last few days . |
| 2 | ‘ Gran died , and left her house to me , so someone had to arrange about selling it . |
| 3 | I had to go about north-north-east , and if I hit the coast in the wrong place I could go first one way , then the other , until I came to the shingle where I had left the dinghy . |
| 4 | Getting back to the actual poem , I had to write about a subject that the ladies of the congregation could identify with , and as Tupperware is a household name , I got the inspiration to write ‘ The Hostess ’ It all started from there , and , like the product , has gone from strength to strength . |
| 5 | Well could I I mean this is of course one of the criticisms that one had to bear about Mrs. Thatcher about erm they say he 's not his own man , that to me indicates that he may be taking advice . |
| 6 | ‘ Before Noriega had to worry about the gringos , ’ said one diplomat . |
| 7 | We were able to lower the nose to improve visibility and to reduce the height of the whole car because we no longer had to worry about having the exhaust pipes running under the passenger compartment . |
| 8 | Thanks to American backing , they no longer had to worry about the small size of the British market , the limitations of the native cinematic culture or their responsibility to show Britain on the screen . |
| 9 | No-one had to worry about plates and forks . |
| 10 | At least she never had to worry about washing piles of dirty dishes and cups . |
| 11 | The huge Gothic cathedral took 600 years to finish ( this was before builders had to worry about penalty clauses ) , and the museum next door has a 3rd century Roman mosaic floor . |
| 12 | If one had to worry about one 's actions in respect of other people 's ideas , one might as well be buried alive in an ant heap or married to an ambitious violinist . |
| 13 | I 'm sorry you had to worry about me because I would n't let you know what was going on in my mind , but I hope now you 'll realise why I kept silent for so long . |
| 14 | She phoned her mother again at a time her father could not be there ; she had to know about Mike and Catherine , what was happening . |
| 15 | He had to set about making a living as a free-lance musician . |
| 16 | Unlike the Torbay line in 1991 , however , the South Devon Railway had to set about purchasing or hiring a whole fleet of locomotives and rolling stock from its cash surplus after a sale price could not be agreed with the DVR General Manager for certain redundant DVR items . |
| 17 | You had to set about it as soon as you got in : doing the legs if they were sweating . |
| 18 | The book is prefaced by a quotation from William Faulkner 's The Bear , in which McCaslin says ( in response to uncertainty as to what the poem they were discussing meant ) , ‘ He had to talk about something . ’ |
| 19 | Serious or not , whatever the business Bodo had to talk about with his brother , to Herr Nordern 's dismay he burst out laughing . |
| 20 | And it was about the only thing they had to talk about , too . |
| 21 | She stifled the admission that they had to talk about something — anything — to take her mind off the contradictory emotions that stirred inside her , and managed a casual shrug . |
| 22 | Irina had to talk about it . |
| 23 | He had to apologise about that young girl Carly because he got it all wrong . |
| 24 | That was half full of water and the ice had cut through the wood flow down the river , cos the water was coming in like hell and er cos one thing I had to do about it , had like a chain in the , in th in the boat , so we pulled the chain out , I pulled the chain out first and go just got the , the erm hull just above water so I bail the boat out with a bucket chuck it down the side right quick . |
| 25 | please understand me , but no thousands of Pounds is er taxable , see what I mean they 've never , I should never applied and they had to send about oh above twenty returns , yearly return . |
| 26 | The Supreme Court expressly declined to address the issue of notification au parquet , merely observing that whatever the negotiating history had to teach about that , it was silent on involuntary agency . |
| 27 | It is not surprising that he found in addition to writing about her , he had to sing about her , too . |
| 28 | Above all , he had to care about satisfying the king , maker and beneficiary of such appointments . |
| 29 | I only had to think about asking her to go to bed when , rather reluctantly , she would go to her box under the kitchen table . |
| 30 | All I had to think about for 5 months had been which was the best brand of nappies or how many poos Danielle had done that day . |