Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do I have to put on a special overall or something ? |
| 2 | Why should I have to live in a one-bedroom flat when others have spacious houses ? |
| 3 | ‘ Why did I have to fall for a suicidal maniac ? ’ she asked herself , and cleaned the flat from top to bottom to take her mind off the image of Jack dangling on the end of a rope above a muddy slit somewhere in subterranean Yorkshire ! |
| 4 | I had to put on a brave face and try to show him that I was not worried , but when he appeared I was shocked at how much he had changed even in such a short time . |
| 5 | The water was deep in the middle , so I had to swim for a few metres . |
| 6 | I had to wait for a considerable time for the expanse of blue sky above my chosen scene ( figure XX ) to be substantial enough for photography . |
| 7 | ‘ I had to stop for a quick drink on the way home with John Dyson , ’ he said . |
| 8 | I had to listen for a good hour while he burbled on about variably apertured annuity options and the like . |
| 9 | But this premise was there at that time and by oh I had to go to a great extent on a number of visits and they er granted it me on compassionate grounds and there 's er I was only looking in the back of there the other day and there 's one there now . |
| 10 | Speaking from a personal experience , I had to go through a similar kind of programme after years of cocaine abuse . |
| 11 | Kylie remembered : ‘ I had to speak in a Dutch accent which I was n't very good at . ’ |
| 12 | I had to react in a split second , so I was a bit hurt to see the papers on Tuesday morning suggesting that my actions in that one second cost England the Test match . |
| 13 | Knowing that I had to start at a new school in the city , with new people and new teachers , I began to worry all over again . |
| 14 | I have to wait for a white actor to turn down a role because the stuff that they 're supposedly writing ‘ black ’ ai n't happenin' . |
| 15 | My whole understanding of the human world requires that in thought and imagination I am constantly shifting between and responding from different viewpoints , here or there , remembered or anticipated , individual or collective , my own or someone else 's , hypothetical , fictional , or simply indefinite ; it is only in action that I have to settle in a present viewpoint , whether personal ( ‘ I ’ ) or social ( ‘ We ’ ) . |
| 16 | I thank you Chair , I mean , clearly I have to ask for a little bit of license on this one , in that I have to comment on things outside of my own district , erm but you will not be surprised to hear , given my evidence earlier that the City Council 's view is quite clearly that there is sufficient land with , on the edge of York , the main urban area , which could accommodate this type of level of development and obviate the need for a new settlement in the structure plan period , I accept , however , of course that that is dependant upon the definition of the inner boundary of the greenbelt , if the City Council 's view on that is er acceptable then Inspector , I believe there will be sufficient sites to obviate the the need for a new settlement , clearly if the Inspector takes a tighter view on the greenbelt , then there will be little land opportunity within the main urban area for this . |
| 17 | He greeted her calmly and as he turned the ignition key he said , ‘ I have to see to a young leopard and treat the hippo , who , they tell me , is a bit off colour . |
| 18 | I have to search for a two-way adaptor and a tape to try it out . |
| 19 | Rebecca 's body has already rejected two kidneys , and she has to rely on a daily cocktail of drugs |
| 20 | I do n't think so she 's erm slow , she 's , she 's like erm , she has to go to a special school |
| 21 | Once the reader has grasped that there are different kinds of reading ( appropriate to different kinds of texts and different purposes ) , that reading must be undertaken actively and critically , and that he or she has to interact in a personal way with the text , then the reader is becoming proficient . |
| 22 | Why , d' ya get , do you have to retire at a certain time ? |
| 23 | But she heard herself saying , still in shrewish style , that on the contrary there was n't any time in the morning , that she had to go to a psychoanalytical conference in the Metropole Hotel with a bunch of Japanese in the morning , that she wanted to talk now , that he could n't just announce that he wanted to get divorced and then decide he was too tired to talk about it . |
| 24 | But , regardless of how she felt , she had to put on a good face . |
| 25 | For Kirsty 's sake she had to put on a bright face . |
| 26 | ‘ Freda- through-the-wall ’ was her nickname for her neighbour whom she frequently invited in , particularly when she had to cope with a sticky social situation . |
| 27 | But she had to cope with a foreign language too . |
| 28 | Even so , she had to admit to a sneaking sense of relief when Luke left the office just after twelve for a business luncheon ; despite her defiance , she preferred that he did n't see her cross the road to the wine bar at one o'clock . |
| 29 | She knew she had to travel on a long , stony road , without help or sympathy . |
| 30 | The road to the Fire Court looked quite straightforward really ; it seemed as if you had to go past a large lake and on down a narrow , windy mountain road with houses dotted on each side . |