Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [to-vb] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 THE FIRST thing I had to do at the NME was draw a cucumber .
2 I had to tell at the table .
3 On reading the Echo report I had to look at the top of the page to make certain that the date was June 1st and not April 1st .
4 I felt helpless and despairing and suddenly so ill that I had to clutch at the door to stop myself falling .
5 It was n't that the song had a particular relevance — it was n't about AIDS — but it was a song that I felt was the best way of expressing myself and also the best thing I had to offer at the time .
6 I have to call at the bank , ’ Lowell told her , ‘ so we 'll do your birthday shopping in Bristol and we 'll use the van . ’
7 I should however indicate that to understand properly what is the appropriate position for an inset boundary , I have to look at the reasons for there being an inset at all for the village , as , as you correctly indicate , it lies plainly otherwise within the general extent of the greenbelt .
8 I have to look at the matter more broadly , and consider also the effect of a valid assignment made before winding up became an imminent prospect .
9 This is all she has to do at the beginning of the week .
10 Ingrid was in fact twenty-nine , which was young compared with Gesner , but not young for a dancer and she found the routines rather a strain , especially when she had to sing at the end of them .
11 Yeah , folk here just never been out since New Year , then she had to work at the hospital Tuesday , well Bradley said if you do n't feel fit enough phone up and we 'll send a nurse to you I said you 're bloody mental , you ask for everything you get , I said instead of phoning the nurse in , ah but I think Alison told me they both need a good , good bloody feed they do
12 She had to look at the facts and analyse them , then draw the right conclusions .
13 B. T. When you were going on duty , you had to parade at the station at half past , as a rule — a quarter of an hour before the beat .
14 ‘ It was very time-consuming — you had to look at the jockey , horse and trainer 's charts .
15 You have to start at the top of the town that way , and go down over down and come round like that , finish off start down Norwich Road and come up Bury Road .
16 You have to look at the availability of funds .
17 You have to look at the way in which children learn , and the principle vehicle through which children learn is associated with visual symbols , and later with the written word .
18 Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do .
19 erm er portraits of , er men you have to take i it that erm we could argue Charlotte Bronte was very critical of the men she knew and , the men she thought she might know , and did n't erm , you have to look at the women who feed into the making of them
20 To decide whether or not the increases are realistic , you have to look at the expenses side .
21 I 'm not I do n't necessarily want to dispute them erm all I would say is that we have to look at the implications do n't just look at the change in the traffic flows and take them as a as a point , you have to look at the implications of those changes in traffic flows .
22 ‘ But you have to look at the pattern as a whole , ’ he points out .
23 For cinemas , you have to guess at the popularity of a given programme : it is , however , possible to buy PG or 15 or 18 only and , now , individual films , while you can also buy an Audience Delivery Plan , guaranteeing a number of admissions .
24 Oh , we had to wait at the border , we had in advance to get visas , and when we got there , things were very simple but nonetheless , we were very well received , and the person that I was staying with , lived in a flat , a very simple flat , but nonetheless , a very pleasant flat .
25 We have to look at the movements of the BNP and what they are doing .
26 ‘ And we have to look at the movements of the BNP and what they are doing .
27 We have to look at the range of ideals which are somehow clustered together to guide us , arrayed as they are in some sort of a rough priority system , and take out of its slot the unquestioned ideal ‘ be a man ’ .
28 Well it , it 's likely to be of charged under one of the loose clauses of anti-government er activities which really could mean anything , and so there , it 's more likely to be that , and if so , we have to look at the evidence then that was used to back up this claim .
29 It 's also suggested that we have to look at the funding issues .
30 In other words , if we want to compare the size of the money stock at one point in time ( M st ) with that of a previous point in time ( M st-1 ) , we have to look at the flow ( change ) of money between those two points
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