Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I eventually had to place a book order after scouring the shelves of shops and libraries . |
| 2 | I trained every one of those dancers at LCDT — hand picked them — I only had to begin a movement and they would finish it . |
| 3 | And er one day I was bathing Judy in the hut and the bell went and I just had to wrap a towel round her , you know , and run down to the sandy wadders And things got so bad , we went back to Khartoum |
| 4 | I once had to have a leg replaced when a couple of Hunters tore mine off . |
| 5 | I always had to pay a nurse to look after her ; she wasted away , could n't stand or walk , but her eyes were as bright as a child 's and so was her wit . |
| 6 | I even had to cancel a team match on the Sunday , but I thought it would be well worth it with so much at stake . |
| 7 | I rudely announced to my wife Claudia that I simply had to have a baby by the time I was 35 . |
| 8 | ‘ I simply had to have a break . |
| 9 | I then had to have a hysterectomy . |
| 10 | In one shop I virtually had to drag a sales assistant away from his pressing chat with a colleague to help me . |
| 11 | He so concentrated on his dialogue — I never had to reshoot a scene because Kenny fluffed a line — that he could n't do anything at the same time as he was talking . ’ |
| 12 | I certainly had to take a couple of unofficial breaks and we were very glad when we stopped for food and drink . |
| 13 | I told you Connelly had bought a warehouse . |
| 14 | She only had to shake a hand to increase the revenue and bring more publicity to the organization than any amount of money could buy . |
| 15 | And she hardly had to say a word the whole evening . |
| 16 | You hardly had to learn a thing . |
| 17 | I mean Margaret used to come in and everything was done for her , I mean she never had to do a thing well that hit her terribly you see . |
| 18 | She never had to work a day in her life . ’ |
| 19 | She too had had a call this day , and finally had told Mr Blaney in the shop that she was going , that she was unwell , could not go on . |
| 20 | This woman was 37 years old , and she too had had a lumpectomy and radiotherapy four years earlier . |
| 21 | We always had given a concert . |
| 22 | And he always had a pot of linseed and black Spanish , and we always had to have a drink of this , cos he thought it was fantastic . |
| 23 | ‘ I would hate it to go down in Conservative mythology that we always had to have a gaggle of young men running every campaign , ’ he said , ‘ although if we had the same bunch at the next election at least they 'd be a few years older . ’ |
| 24 | We also had to do a navigation test . |
| 25 | We now had to create a manufacturing improvement strategy to let us do it . |
| 26 | ‘ At first he did n't believe us but when he realised we really had found a baby and came back with us to have a look . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ The press was always very kind to us , giving us so many free editorials that we never had to pay a penny for advertising . |
| 28 | Culturally , the Palestinian Jews had to face the increasing differentiation of the diaspora , both in Mesopotamia and in Egypt ; they also had to run a state efficiently within a Hellenistic — milieu . |
| 29 | Following from Richard and Jenny erm , they both had to attend a meeting in Dublin but it 's with absolutely no other alternative . |
| 30 | They then had to hitch a lift back to the cars . |