Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [to-vb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to go to the next yard to fetch Jonesy . |
| 2 | I had to write to the next of kin . |
| 3 | I had to escape to the nearby wilderness of mountain and ice , to live out my days among chamois and eagle , which were being hunted as avidly as I. |
| 4 | To see The Egyptian , I had to walk to the other end of town , to the Essoldo . |
| 5 | ‘ I have to go to the old ladies ’ home , but I could do that later . |
| 6 | Why do you have to turn to the other side , why ca n't you have it up the middle . . |
| 7 | And er Alan keeps saying , you can do it but you have to wait to the next programme coming through and I specifically asked for Liz to put it on . |
| 8 | I could have done with it , I could n't get on the bloo they got this internal bus service that runs from each college , cos you have to go to the other colleges for your lectures , and I just sort , there 's not enough , and you , you get turned away , and I just thought , I went for that bus Tuesday morning , I was supposed to get it at eight fifteen , and he just said sorry , no more room . |
| 9 | Having decided the outbound time , check the amount of height you have to lose to the final turn and work out the rate of descent . |
| 10 | The next day we had to report to the huge , ugly , frightening , hideous abattoir man who , in case you did n't know , lives , actually lives three streets away from us ! |
| 11 | There is a distinct difference as we will detail ; but for the moment we have to return to the basic check for symmetry . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've talked to the good guys , now we have to talk to the bad guys . |
| 13 | I do not want to return to a world in which the lights go out , there is no money in the country , we have to turn to the International Monetary Fund , and investment in the leading industries has to be cut back . |
| 14 | We have to attend to the dynamic tension between constitutional theory and political practice , and to change over time . |
| 15 | My right hon. Friend will agree that those questions must be answered and that we have to get to the very heart of the scandal to ensure that it should not happen again , not only in Leicestershire but elsewhere , and those responsible for the cover-up are made to realise what they have done and the subsequent effect it has had on numerous children . |
| 16 | In both books we have to read to the very end before we are relieved of the fact that we know that both Imamu and Boo , are genuinely nice people . |
| 17 | If that is the case that each of the political parties , as I assume is the case for er the Conservative party , I know it to be the case of the Labour party I assume the same is true for the Liberal Democrats and other parties represented in this house , that they undertake the very considerable organisational er er process of selecting candidates only to find a few weeks before June the ninth , that as a result of the difficulties that I 've described as far as the French government attitude towards these elections is concerned , that er in fact we have to revert to the existing arrangements and that we can not have these new er boundaries in place . |
| 18 | They said me and him had to go to the social security the next morning , and if he did n't he 'd be picked up . |
| 19 | Their lower status is shown in the customary services and goods they had to supply to the main caput — services including building and maintaining the lord 's hall , bower , and possible defences , and goods rendered including lambs , wool , cattle and honey . |
| 20 | Each sect accused the other of wishing to observe the prescribed religious festivals at the wrong times , although in practice they had to keep to the same dates . |
| 21 | Female crickets can be trained to walk along a ‘ Y-maze ’ ( Figure 8.2 ) , on which they have to turn to the left or right . |
| 22 | They have to dance to the Russian tune , or at least the government does . |
| 23 | " Then they have to go to the Chinese to borrow money at highwaymen 's rates . |
| 24 | A member of the Orrell Park Community Centre which does n't own a snooker table he has to travel to the Red Rum Snooker Club in Croxteth to practice . |
| 25 | It has to respond to the emerging consciousness of the black community , gay people , feminists by marginalising them and delegitimating their claims . |
| 26 | In addition , by having this land available at the value of its current use , rather than at a value based on speculation as to its possible development , the community will be able to provide , in the places that need them , the public facilities it needs , but can not now afford because of the inflated price it has to pay to the private owner . |
| 27 | It had to come to the nightly struggle with the big glass , like the struggle with Proteus , who must be held no matter what form he takes , bull , bear , fox , fire , water . |
| 28 | We still have a six-point buffer but I expect us to have to go to the last day of the season . ’ |