Example sentences of "[subord] i have [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So I had to spend the whole morning trying to organise another venue . |
| 2 | If I had to name the twentieth-century figure who reminds me most of corduroys , it would have to be Albert Einstein . |
| 3 | If I had to give the best pen picture I could contrive of Harold Wilson , I would describe him as an immensely intelligent man , rather less — by my standards — than half-educated . |
| 4 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 5 | " I was tip nearly all night because I had to lead the first devotions at the High Council , with all those experienced and senior leaders of the Army world . " |
| 6 | It also did me a world of good , for I had to study the basic faith , teaching and life and express it in as simple words as possible . |