Example sentences of "i had [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So then er and I had to do with the antique .
2 Afterwards , I had to lie on a bed in a dark room .
3 One of these blows actually ricked my neck and I had to lie on the floor beneath the table until it was okay to come up again .
4 I had to lie in the darkness , still as a corpse .
5 I had to kneel on the floor to reach it and her fingers fastened in my hair .
6 I had to sleep with the light on .
7 When I went home in the school holidays I had to sleep on the bed-settee in the ‘ front room ’ .
8 I had to sleep in a tee-shirt , and when all the spots started popping I was in the worst state of my life .
9 I had to sleep in a car for two weeks .
10 Only after that , and with a few facts from your GP , plus half a page on your stresses during the last five years — I had to overflow onto the back of my page and with a little encouragement could easily have made it a 100,000 words — can you go through the eye of the needle .
11 One queer I had to slug in the face and jump out of his car . ‘
12 I had to fumble for the torch in the dark and work out for myself how to fix my bunk .
13 They believed I had to report to a camp near Dover .
14 I woke again , I had to put on the light .
15 I 've got that broken arm , which I had to put in a sling every time .
16 " I 'm sorry to have kept you waiting , but I had to finish with the man I had with me .
17 I knew I should not miss that appointment with him and I had to succeed in the match , ’ he said .
18 Well , what I had to do , I had to swim under the water
19 To prepare this article I had to wait for an event on a day when the visibility was gin-clear to get good photographs from my open cockpit Jodel D9 , using a telephoto lens at various focal lengths to obtain the required framing .
20 At the same time , while ensuring the blue of sky in front of the camera , I had to wait for the sun to fall on the scene from behind me , otherwise the sparkle of beach and palms would have been lost .
21 I had to wait in a corridor .
22 But I had to return to the subject of Frankenstein .
23 I had to return to the area of the shrine .
24 I knew that if I had to drive to the park or into the country first , then the walking would never get done except at weekends .
25 It 's like when I was a kid and when everybody else in the grammar school got school dinners I had to queue outside the headmaster 's office every morning for me free dinner ticket . ’
26 I had to account for every penny I spent , but he never told me what he was spending .
27 He listened to what I had to say about the procedure still to be gone through and hoped that they would soon hear whether Balbinder had a place .
28 Feeling that anything I had to say on the subject would drive passengers to reach for the inflight discomfort receptacle , I asked my spellchecker to do it instead .
29 The immense build-up made it impossible to find a decent anchor and , having stamped out a rather unstable stance , I had to settle for a couple of drive-ins in a clod of frozen turf .
30 While you were missing , I had to deal with a dog that had been run over . ’
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