Example sentences of "i have [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was deter , you see I , I have to set a good example to Neil . |
| 2 | Do I have to wear a cheap suit and drive a Sierra to get invited . |
| 3 | Do I have to have a Compact job ? |
| 4 | That 's a I I had to do a little bit of er adaption work on the on the curtain rail put that on . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , I had to hold a bloody press conference this morning . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | She fancies herself as another Madonna , so I had to wear a black bra with dungarees over the top — it looked gross . |
| 8 | And to show we were serious I had to leave a little reminder . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And I had to spend a whole hour in a meeting not not an hour , two and a half hours in a |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 16 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This time I had to take a double dose to return to my old shape . |
| 19 | Ken said , ‘ I had to have a new banjo . |
| 20 | I had decided that I had to have a partial confidant at the school . |
| 21 | And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs |
| 22 | I had to make a polite pretence at reluctance . |
| 23 | But I had to make a bigger adjustment to studying . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 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 | It seemed a good idea to have a companion when I knew I had to face a Spanish maniac ! ’ |
| 29 | But , thinking the process through sensibly , I realised I needed to write an essay before winning the £200 , hence I had to find a suitable topic . |
| 30 | In the second division in this day and age , I had to climb a wooden ladder , I had to go all the way to the very top of the main stand and there was a shed , and at the end of the match , surface water forced me to dry my socks off in the radiator in the dressing rooms afterwards . |