Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [to-vb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well yes I had to spend quite a lot of time on the line to her because er her husband 's been quite ill with bladder trouble . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've got pretty good hearing but I had to wait almost a moment before I could imagine I could hear anything . |
| 3 | Oh I 'd forgotten about that , right I had to go back a couple of times did n't I Bev ? |
| 4 | This morning I had to connect up a video for Caroline to use and all the leads , every single lead we 've got , to connect any machine to any machine , were all bundled in like a load missing , and it took me what , five minutes to find the right leads and connect the machines up . |
| 5 | Sorry Chief Administrator Officer and I had to provide quite a lot of statistical information which I 'd never done before but nevertheless I , I made a fairly reasonable job of it , I had an assistant and erm I , I think I got fairly well known amongst the councillors and people who mattered and then went . |
| 6 | ‘ Similarly , I did n't want any obvious arms on it so I had to work out a system of manipulators — things that did things , like a grip mechanism or a gun . |
| 7 | ’ And I had to come out a minute early to pay it back . |
| 8 | But every time I wanted a piece of wood , I had to cut down a tree . |
| 9 | When I read essays by male Art Historians I had to knock out a lot of crap like when they talk about the rape in inverted commas … |
| 10 | I had to find out a lot of things about you in a short space of time . |
| 11 | ‘ I had to jump over a hedge , ’ she said , ‘ and I tore my bloomers . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Sister , I had to send out a dresser . |
| 13 | Then everybody wanted it and she had to give up a bit of buttermaking she also did to cope with the demand . |
| 14 | As the moist heat of the mouth working at her breast penetrated the soft material of her shirt , that pang repeated itself , over and over again , so that she had to bite back a whimper . |
| 15 | Sunset had been grand but remote , like listening to a radio signal from some distant country with only a weak transmitter : when a surfer caught a wave or came to grief , you had to filter out a lot of static and strain to follow what was happening . |
| 16 | The stages were so enormous — about 60 feet across — that you had to poke out a bit of noise just to make yourself heard . |
| 17 | Well with the others , it used to have to brake , if it were going too fast , you had to brake up a bit . |
| 18 | Stupid it was , saying you had to heat up a thing out of a lawnmower . |
| 19 | First , we had to set up a structure so we could record all the non-conformances and make sure corrective action was taken . |
| 20 | And er when I went to school , Miss the old teacher , she used to take me out , er I used to go to the school ready to go to Deerness , we had to ask out a quarter of an hour early . |
| 21 | So we had to search quite a time to find these players . |
| 22 | None of us had any idea what observation meant , but we had to write down a sentence or something we had noticed on our way to school . |
| 23 | a bald patch , yes , so she had wear , actually we had to cut down a plastic bucket cos she was a big dog |
| 24 | They had to take out a loan to pay their last fuel bill . |
| 25 | My parents were not very well off when they bought it , and they had to have quite a lot of work done on it before we could move in . |
| 26 | showed no stuttering , and the usual blood flow asymmetry favouring the left side , when they had to read aloud a passage of prose . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're only envious , and you know you were the most concerned when he had to lose almost a year to that fever . |
| 28 | When the guard was told that no one had moved from their seats he became very worried because he said he had to make out a report to British Rail as to the cause of the delay and he then said , ‘ I 'll have to put it down to person or persons unknown ’ . |
| 29 | Again she went alone , because the Goad case came along and he had to hunt down a gangland killer . |
| 30 | It played on his mind for a time and eventually he had to work out a kind of therapy to get her out of his brain . |