Example sentences of "i have [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do I have to put on a special overall or something ? |
| 2 | Why should I have to live in a one-bedroom flat when others have spacious houses ? |
| 3 | ‘ Why did I have to fall for a suicidal maniac ? ’ she asked herself , and cleaned the flat from top to bottom to take her mind off the image of Jack dangling on the end of a rope above a muddy slit somewhere in subterranean Yorkshire ! |
| 4 | Irish hockey coach Cees Koppelaar reflects on his team 's failure to qualify for the World Cup and his plans for the future I know there was some criticism when I had to leave before the final inter-provincial game in Dublin last season — that was because of my club commitments in Holland . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I had to wait for the right moment to tell Nicola . |
| 8 | ‘ I had to stop for a quick drink on the way home with John Dyson , ’ he said . |
| 9 | I had to listen for a good hour while he burbled on about variably apertured annuity options and the like . |
| 10 | Then I had to go into the Royal Marsden . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Speaking from a personal experience , I had to go through a similar kind of programme after years of cocaine abuse . |
| 13 | Indeed , it was March that year before I managed to obtain a false set , which meant I had to go through the entire winter without a tooth in the top of my mouth . |
| 14 | I had to go round the other night , Saturday night , and you could n't get through the door . |
| 15 | Aye I had to look through the whole lot of them . |
| 16 | Kylie remembered : ‘ I had to speak in a Dutch accent which I was n't very good at . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I had to escape to the nearby wilderness of mountain and ice , to live out my days among chamois and eagle , which were being hunted as avidly as I. |
| 19 | To see The Egyptian , I had to walk to the other end of town , to the Essoldo . |
| 20 | I had to walk round the bloody block . ’ |
| 21 | Well to keep his rope tight , I had to pull on the other , and the other chap would jerk me back . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I have to wait for a white actor to turn down a role because the stuff that they 're supposedly writing ‘ black ’ ai n't happenin' . |
| 24 | Chairman I 'll get the ball rolling I suppose erm I have to deal with the ludicrous sh statement from County Council now the savings , proposed savings on the fire cover review . |
| 25 | My whole understanding of the human world requires that in thought and imagination I am constantly shifting between and responding from different viewpoints , here or there , remembered or anticipated , individual or collective , my own or someone else 's , hypothetical , fictional , or simply indefinite ; it is only in action that I have to settle in a present viewpoint , whether personal ( ‘ I ’ ) or social ( ‘ We ’ ) . |
| 26 | It is in the light of these matters that I have to decide upon the appropriate evidence up upon the appropriate figure for pain , suffering and loss of amenity . |
| 27 | I have to pose in the Victorian dress and with my hair the way I told you . ’ |
| 28 | I thank you Chair , I mean , clearly I have to ask for a little bit of license on this one , in that I have to comment on things outside of my own district , erm but you will not be surprised to hear , given my evidence earlier that the City Council 's view is quite clearly that there is sufficient land with , on the edge of York , the main urban area , which could accommodate this type of level of development and obviate the need for a new settlement in the structure plan period , I accept , however , of course that that is dependant upon the definition of the inner boundary of the greenbelt , if the City Council 's view on that is er acceptable then Inspector , I believe there will be sufficient sites to obviate the the need for a new settlement , clearly if the Inspector takes a tighter view on the greenbelt , then there will be little land opportunity within the main urban area for this . |
| 29 | He greeted her calmly and as he turned the ignition key he said , ‘ I have to see to a young leopard and treat the hippo , who , they tell me , is a bit off colour . |
| 30 | ‘ I have to go to the old ladies ’ home , but I could do that later . |