Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's a I I had to do a little bit of er adaption work on the on the curtain rail put that on . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , I had to hold a bloody press conference this morning . |
| 3 | The next day I had to wear a long Kamiz over my trousers and have a scarf covering my head — can you imagine going to school like that … |
| 4 | She fancies herself as another Madonna , so I had to wear a black bra with dungarees over the top — it looked gross . |
| 5 | And to show we were serious I had to leave a little reminder . ’ |
| 6 | My wife and I were very happy ; we had a house outside the town , though I had to spend a great deal of time in Berlin . |
| 7 | And I had to spend a whole hour in a meeting not not an hour , two and a half hours in a |
| 8 | Nina knows about the lymphoma ; I had to cancel a prearranged lunch at Langans with her as it coincided with my short stay in hospital , and rather than make up an excuse I thought it an opportune time to tell her . |
| 9 | I had to cancel a live radio performance and head for Stornoway , home of the Calvinist hits , where the black puddings come in square boxes in case the ministers think they 're too phallic . |
| 10 | If I had to give a single criterion of that dubious category , the homosexual sensibility , it would be this connection between perversity and paradox — if only because it suggests why that sensibility does not exist as such . |
| 11 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 12 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 13 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 14 | Trying to bring those those elements together into a single definition , I I had to use an established grouping of permanent habitation . |
| 15 | Intimidated by the vast sweep of Morecambe Bay 's shifting sands below , I had to reverse a strenuous move and , in the days before I discovered contact lenses , ended up entangled in awkward loops of rope , my spectacles askew and dangling precariously from one ear . |
| 16 | This time I had to take a double dose to return to my old shape . |
| 17 | Ken said , ‘ I had to have a new banjo . |
| 18 | I had decided that I had to have a partial confidant at the school . |
| 19 | My toes went gangrenous and I had to have an arterial bypass . |
| 20 | I had to make a polite pretence at reluctance . |
| 21 | So I said I had to make a quick decision either I was going to go up me chain past his whatsit and into the roof , or else go thirty feet down and run right across the chamber into whichever er level they could go to . |
| 22 | They dragged me to the Police Station where I had to make a detailed statement of everything that had happened the first time intercourse took place . |
| 23 | I had to make an instant decision , so I steered Foinavon to the right — the outside — to get away from the main part of the melee . |
| 24 | To tell my story : because I was very conscious that out of the static situation of the servant being the one who was menacing the Judge I had to make an ongoing story . |
| 25 | As a result , I had to make an expensive taxi journey to arrive at the meeting on time . |
| 26 | I had to announce a big disaster during the war , the fall of France or something , and it was during a children 's matinee . |
| 27 | My eyes were very bad , and I had to pay a young curate to help me with my work for the church . |
| 28 | ‘ I wanted each chapter to be separate , but I did n't want it to be a set of separate short stories ; so I had to keep an enormous notebook of who they all were and what they were doing at any given time . |
| 29 | It seemed a good idea to have a companion when I knew I had to face a Spanish maniac ! ’ |
| 30 | The paperwork was so vast that in 1988 I had to add an entire floor in my house in Ireland to accommodate it , and that turned out not to be enough . |