Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are not on the whole involved in direct teaching and , second , each of them has to have a separate viewpoint because the focus of the job is mainly outside that of any school . |
| 2 | Do I have to explain every single thing to you ! |
| 3 | I was deter , you see I , I have to set a good example to Neil . |
| 4 | Do I have to wear a cheap suit and drive a Sierra to get invited . |
| 5 | Do I have to have a Compact job ? |
| 6 | That 's a I I had to do a little bit of er adaption work on the on the curtain rail put that on . |
| 7 | I had to heave the old hag out of the house when I got married . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , I had to hold a bloody press conference this morning . |
| 9 | The next day I had to wear a long Kamiz over my trousers and have a scarf covering my head — can you imagine going to school like that … |
| 10 | She fancies herself as another Madonna , so I had to wear a black bra with dungarees over the top — it looked gross . |
| 11 | And to show we were serious I had to leave a little reminder . ’ |
| 12 | My wife and I were very happy ; we had a house outside the town , though I had to spend a great deal of time in Berlin . |
| 13 | And I had to spend a whole hour in a meeting not not an hour , two and a half hours in a |
| 14 | I had to spend the usual time on the beat , in uniform . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ So I had to spend the whole morning trying to organise another venue . |
| 16 | Nina knows about the lymphoma ; I had to cancel a prearranged lunch at Langans with her as it coincided with my short stay in hospital , and rather than make up an excuse I thought it an opportune time to tell her . |
| 17 | I had to cancel a live radio performance and head for Stornoway , home of the Calvinist hits , where the black puddings come in square boxes in case the ministers think they 're too phallic . |
| 18 | If I had to give a single criterion of that dubious category , the homosexual sensibility , it would be this connection between perversity and paradox — if only because it suggests why that sensibility does not exist as such . |
| 19 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 20 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 21 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 22 | As for me , I had to wait the whole summer and into the late autumn for rehearsals of The Jungle Book to begin , so I went back to South London , happy in the knowledge that soon I 'd be in a professional production and there 'd be someone in the cast for me to fall in love with . |
| 23 | Trying to bring those those elements together into a single definition , I I had to use an established grouping of permanent habitation . |
| 24 | Intimidated by the vast sweep of Morecambe Bay 's shifting sands below , I had to reverse a strenuous move and , in the days before I discovered contact lenses , ended up entangled in awkward loops of rope , my spectacles askew and dangling precariously from one ear . |
| 25 | This time I had to take a double dose to return to my old shape . |
| 26 | Last time , I had to take the other route from Larne to Stranraer in Scotland . |
| 27 | ‘ I had to take the whole test again because I blinked , ’ he said . |
| 28 | ‘ I was n't sure about making the sharp turn into the fifth fence , but Ted told me I had to go the fast way everywhere otherwise I had no hope of winning , ’ Mac said . |
| 29 | If I had to name the twentieth-century figure who reminds me most of corduroys , it would have to be Albert Einstein . |
| 30 | Ken said , ‘ I had to have a new banjo . |