Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I had to stop for a quick drink on the way home with John Dyson , ’ he said . |
| 4 | I had to listen for a good hour while he burbled on about variably apertured annuity options and the like . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Speaking from a personal experience , I had to go through a similar kind of programme after years of cocaine abuse . |
| 7 | Kylie remembered : ‘ I had to speak in a Dutch accent which I was n't very good at . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Consequently , she had to exist on an average income of £26 per week from an evening waitressing job . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But , regardless of how she felt , she had to put on a good face . |
| 13 | For Kirsty 's sake she had to put on a bright face . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | But she had to cope with a foreign language too . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She knew she had to travel on a long , stony road , without help or sympathy . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Say you had to go to a dental appointment . |
| 20 | To be a true professional , you had to live in a closed world . |
| 21 | So we had to go through a whole charade of auditioning a second guitarist . |
| 22 | In the end we had to settle for a hurried and depressing buffet in the North British Hotel , with a menu which would not have been out of place at a Sunday-school picnic . |
| 23 | So we decided we had to look for a new singer . |
| 24 | They had to go through a long interrogation , and their answers were not found to be satisfactory . |
| 25 | Once they had to stop at a red light , and they heard Donald whimpering . |
| 26 | They had to operate from a precariously-held line stretching 800 kilometres from Akyab on the Bay of Bengal to Ledo at the foot of the Tibetan mountains . |
| 27 | But you 've got to prove that they are a suspected person — they had to belong to a particular class of person to be classed as a suspected person . |
| 28 | These were manned by guards whose only access to the towers was by way of a single rope which they had to climb in a gymnastic fashion ; they then pulled up the rope and remained in the towers for the rest of the shift . |
| 29 | And they had a system where erm they got this information and they It was that they I think there there was something about the time element , it had to happen at a certain time |
| 30 | The National Bank said that for 1990 it had to adhere to a strict monetary policy aimed at keeping the hard currency account deficit under $550,000,000 , that of the state budget under 10,000 million forints and inflation under 19 per cent — conditions imposed by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) when it approved an agreement to pave the way for additional foreign loans to maintain the country 's creditworthiness . |