Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [to-vb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will I have to strip down the tank and start again ? |
| 2 | I had to hold down the wheelbarrow by sitting on it while taking off my hat , changing into my jeans , and putting on goggles and a smog-mask . |
| 3 | Well yes I had to spend quite a lot of time on the line to her because er her husband 's been quite ill with bladder trouble . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've got pretty good hearing but I had to wait almost a moment before I could imagine I could hear anything . |
| 5 | By now it was early afternoon and Rick ( who had been catching consistently on the corn ) and I decided we were getting peckish , so , being nominated ’ chef of the week ’ I had to sort out the dinner . |
| 6 | Well , there was nothing for it , I had to lay down the law in no uncertain terms . |
| 7 | And it was very dark , but I had to go up every night , and I did n't like going up in the dark . ’ |
| 8 | Four other girls , that 's right and of course there were housemaids there to do the work and er yes housemaids and er and er you know and in the , in the kitchen , you see , there was the chef and er a cook , the kitchen maid and er a young man , a boy , well just left school to scrub the tables down and do the floors and that sort of thing and er and whi and er while I , of course I had to go down every day to type , to see what the chef said , what was on the menu and type it , type out the menus , you see , that was one of my jobs and er and if let me think , yes there was quite a number of staff , that 's just in the kitchen |
| 9 | he and he were like this in the water I had to go down the bank I grabbed hold of him in the middle of his back , just turfed him out . |
| 10 | Oh I 'd forgotten about that , right I had to go back a couple of times did n't I Bev ? |
| 11 | This morning I had to connect up a video for Caroline to use and all the leads , every single lead we 've got , to connect any machine to any machine , were all bundled in like a load missing , and it took me what , five minutes to find the right leads and connect the machines up . |
| 12 | I had to force down the wave of nausea . |
| 13 | She was getting tired of the equipment — the leash and ring and creance — slowing her down , and I had to pluck up the courage to let her fly free for the first time . |
| 14 | Sorry Chief Administrator Officer and I had to provide quite a lot of statistical information which I 'd never done before but nevertheless I , I made a fairly reasonable job of it , I had an assistant and erm I , I think I got fairly well known amongst the councillors and people who mattered and then went . |
| 15 | ‘ Similarly , I did n't want any obvious arms on it so I had to work out a system of manipulators — things that did things , like a grip mechanism or a gun . |
| 16 | ’ And I had to come out a minute early to pay it back . |
| 17 | I had to catch up the axe and hit him with the blunt end , knock him out . |
| 18 | Even without your help I 'd find my family , ’ she said in a low tone , ‘ and it would n't matter if I had to look up every Corosini in the phone book and knock on a hundred doors . ’ |
| 19 | But every time I wanted a piece of wood , I had to cut down a tree . |
| 20 | and like I thought , I had to make up an excuse why I went out ! |
| 21 | I had to knock up the girl in the Post Office to find out where you lived and — here I am . |
| 22 | When I read essays by male Art Historians I had to knock out a lot of crap like when they talk about the rape in inverted commas … |
| 23 | I had to find out a lot of things about you in a short space of time . |
| 24 | Fenella was easily bribed with the promise of an ice-cream on the way home and Lisabeth kept her company by devouring a couple of choc ices , which meant I had to wash down the upholstery of Armstrong 's back seat that evening . |
| 25 | ‘ I had to jump over a hedge , ’ she said , ‘ and I tore my bloomers . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Sister , I had to send out a dresser . |
| 27 | We talking about this and I was saying about coming from construction I says I 've says I 've to go up the cut like |
| 28 | I only think of myself as a housewife when I have to fill up a form . |
| 29 | All those big salt pebble things I have to fill up every week in the ? |
| 30 | I know I have to go down the college tonight . |