Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I 've already sussed Jim out anyway cos he said it was on my contract saying I had to do the four hours . |
| 2 | I I I had to do the other jobs as I know , but I used to like serving people because I used to like meeting people and sort of study people . |
| 3 | I had to heave the old hag out of the house when I got married . |
| 4 | I had to spend the usual time on the beat , in uniform . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ So I had to spend the whole morning trying to organise another venue . |
| 6 | If I had to give the best pen picture I could contrive of Harold Wilson , I would describe him as an immensely intelligent man , rather less — by my standards — than half-educated . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | " I was tip nearly all night because I had to lead the first devotions at the High Council , with all those experienced and senior leaders of the Army world . " |
| 9 | Last time , I had to take the other route from Larne to Stranraer in Scotland . |
| 10 | ‘ I had to take the whole test again because I blinked , ’ he said . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | If I had to name the twentieth-century figure who reminds me most of corduroys , it would have to be Albert Einstein . |
| 13 | Er on appointment , like other recruits , I had to serve the first month on night duty . |
| 14 | I hit the first man with the wooden end of my gun and he fell down , but I had to shoot the second man . |
| 15 | I had to show the local mechanic what to do ; he knew nothing about small aircraft . |
| 16 | It also did me a world of good , for I had to study the basic faith , teaching and life and express it in as simple words as possible . |
| 17 | Then I had to place the silver-coloured piece on to the needle heads with the latches open and draw the knitting towards me so that the latches closed and the knitting slid on to the silver piece . |
| 18 | as if the stench of stale sweat and stagnant liniment was not enough , I had to endure the grotesque sensation of his sodden sodding notepad disintegrating between my toes . |
| 19 | I had to pay the new increase ! |
| 20 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 21 | ‘ I had to learn the gentle art of sensitive snubbing — jargon can be a problem , ’ she says . |
| 22 | It was no help to discover that I was not alone in my distaste for the new order because , along with the ever-present sexism , I had to fight the crueller jibes of ageism . |
| 23 | During the creation of a doctoral thesis and preparation of papers for seminars , I had to face the conscious problem of writing about a system which I know prefers silence and links such reticence to ideas of ‘ respect ’ , ‘ order ’ , and ‘ discipline ’ in an all-encompassing paternalism . |
| 24 | First I had to pass the antique shop where Mr Rutherford resided . |
| 25 | I I have to say the top earners of course ask for those further away . |
| 26 | I have to call the American Consulate . ’ |
| 27 | Though sometimes , when they 've been smashed into and then I have to turn the other way , they go oh ! |
| 28 | Do you think Mummy will say I have to wear the same dress ? |
| 29 | I have to carry the whole piece in my head . ’ |
| 30 | I have to leave the clamouring Festival in time to help Mrs Kizza prepare lunch . |