Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE FIRST thing I had to do at the NME was draw a cucumber . |
| 2 | So then er and I had to do with the antique . |
| 3 | One of these blows actually ricked my neck and I had to lie on the floor beneath the table until it was okay to come up again . |
| 4 | I had to lie in the darkness , still as a corpse . |
| 5 | I had to kneel on the floor to reach it and her fingers fastened in my hair . |
| 6 | I had to sleep with the light on . |
| 7 | When I went home in the school holidays I had to sleep on the bed-settee in the ‘ front room ’ . |
| 8 | Only after that , and with a few facts from your GP , plus half a page on your stresses during the last five years — I had to overflow onto the back of my page and with a little encouragement could easily have made it a 100,000 words — can you go through the eye of the needle . |
| 9 | One queer I had to slug in the face and jump out of his car . ‘ |
| 10 | and financial circumstances and erm , this was something of course that I had to leave to the people who were working got himself another job . |
| 11 | I had to fumble for the torch in the dark and work out for myself how to fix my bunk . |
| 12 | I woke again , I had to put on the light . |
| 13 | " I 'm sorry to have kept you waiting , but I had to finish with the man I had with me . |
| 14 | I knew I should not miss that appointment with him and I had to succeed in the match , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Well , what I had to do , I had to swim under the water |
| 16 | At the same time , while ensuring the blue of sky in front of the camera , I had to wait for the sun to fall on the scene from behind me , otherwise the sparkle of beach and palms would have been lost . |
| 17 | It was already nearly six o'clock , and I would n't be able to find a one-hour photo lab open anywhere that evening ; and I had to return to the Sheraton to collect my bag , and be back on the train by seven-thirty or soon after . |
| 18 | But I had to return to the subject of Frankenstein . |
| 19 | I had to return to the area of the shrine . |
| 20 | I knew that if I had to drive to the park or into the country first , then the walking would never get done except at weekends . |
| 21 | It 's like when I was a kid and when everybody else in the grammar school got school dinners I had to queue outside the headmaster 's office every morning for me free dinner ticket . ’ |
| 22 | He listened to what I had to say about the procedure still to be gone through and hoped that they would soon hear whether Balbinder had a place . |
| 23 | I shall not attempt to repeat what I said then , for repetition makes bores of us all in the House ; I am glad , however , that the scepticism that greeted what I had to say about the benefits of a single European currency has since been replaced by understanding and support in several quarters . |
| 24 | Feeling that anything I had to say on the subject would drive passengers to reach for the inflight discomfort receptacle , I asked my spellchecker to do it instead . |
| 25 | Then I was promoted to assistant cashier at the Wandsworth branch where I had to deal with the toll accounts to go to head office as well as the share accounts and the dividends . |
| 26 | Once the semantics of police experience were revealed , I had to live with the problems experienced by both Castenada and Favret-Saada , although I demur from casting myself into their intellectual companionship . |
| 27 | Except that I had to live with the aftermath . |
| 28 | When I bought my first company and began to build up the business , I had to live in the city , so that I was at the centre of things . |
| 29 | I had to listen to the story of the execution again — at least , the oldest woman launched out into a welter of words among which I heard ‘ mayor ’ and ‘ Germans ’ ; and the children raised their arms like guns . |
| 30 | At very long meetings , punctuated by the arrival of quite excellent sandwiches — for me the most unhealthy of all foodstuffs — I had to listen to the outpourings of the leading fanatics in the medical profession ; to the timorous intervention of the moderates ; and happily to the constant , wise and soothing interventions of Derek Damerell , the chief executive of BUPA , to whom the country owes a debt that has never received proper recognition . |