Example sentences of "i had [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked in and there were twelve fellas sitting in this room and I had to sing in front of them all . |
| 2 | Food was short and for two days I was kept running round trying to buy up supplies , with the result that I had to retire to bed with blistered feet . |
| 3 | But I saw , I went into town yesterday , have n't been into town and I saw er , I 'm just going up past the job centre I had to go to council about me money and I thought well I suppose I ought to make an effort and look in the job centre cos I , I ai n't done because I 've been in catering all the while |
| 4 | Then I had to go to hospital for a while . |
| 5 | I had to go below ground to an office where I spoke to a policeman . |
| 6 | I had to sit in silence for twenty minutes with him and the weird Indian music . |
| 7 | Quite apart from the sheer mystery of all that I had to behold on arrival at an up-to-date operational station . |
| 8 | You knew perfectly well I had to stay within reach of the hospital over the weekend . |
| 9 | ‘ It meant I had to stay in character for the five weeks between the two periods of works . |
| 10 | I had to stay in bed for two weeks after this , before I felt well enough to meet people again . |
| 11 | I had to stay in prison for a couple of weeks before going to an approved school in Hayes , Middlesex . ’ |
| 12 | We shall just have to pretend it 's not there , there 's not , there 's not quite as bad as when I had to speak for Amnesty on Radio Essex last year and it was live , as every word , every word I spoke was being you know being heard by a lot of people and that 's , that was very , that was very intimidating . |
| 13 | If I had to undress in front of them , I 'd be wondering what they were thinking about my body — ‘ Do they think I 'm anorexic , or just plain thin ? |
| 14 | And of course I had to admit in front of everyone that I did n't . |
| 15 | I had to stand in front of the whole school which gave me ample opportunity to observe the envy on some girls ' faces because knitting for the troops was a popular pastime then . |