Example sentences of "[pron] have [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's what everyone has to do at some time — it 's called taking responsibility for yourself . |
| 2 | THE FIRST thing I had to do at the NME was draw a cucumber . |
| 3 | ‘ I was tired and I had to leave at approximately five — in about two hours . |
| 4 | And that , I I was , my hus , during the time mother was ill , my husband took ill , now this is where authorities do n't give you any back up , instead of sending him to hospital which was fifteen minutes by bus , I could have visited him every day they sent him to the other side of the county which only allowed a visit once a week , and meant I had to leave at twelve o'clock and get home at six ! |
| 5 | I used to do that when I was working and I had to leave at half four , used to do our kids , see when that clock gets to nine waken me I 'm fucking cold out our Ashley said mummy it 's after nine |
| 6 | I had to wait at most a couple of minutes before Dennis opened the back door , walked across to the garage , unlocked it , swung the door up and stepped inside . |
| 7 | And although I infinitely preferred a walk across the corner of the field to the privy by the duck pond , to the four flights of stairs I had to descend at Reine , with a com-munal Turkish crouch at the end of it , I wondered how Otto would adjust to outside facilities . |
| 8 | I had to install at least another four in the kitchen in my present home , to cater for all the electrical appliances . |
| 9 | The Aldershot principally because it gave a structure to what I had to say at least went up there fairly confident of what I had . |
| 10 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 11 | I had to stay at home , but Will told me all about it when he came back . |
| 12 | For I had to stay at home and look after me farm for . |
| 13 | I became a loner , but I had to work at it . |
| 14 | I know that cos I had to work at it when I first come here |
| 15 | I had to tell at the table . |
| 16 | I knew what they meant : they meant I had to look at myself . |
| 17 | One 18-year-old insurance clerk from Birchfield explained how he reached a sort of cross-road after his training began to detract from his studies : ‘ I came to the conclusion that my career came first and , at 18 , I had to look at my prospects . |
| 18 | I had to look at you , and make noises at you . |
| 19 | On reading the Echo report I had to look at the top of the page to make certain that the date was June 1st and not April 1st . |
| 20 | ‘ I had to look at why we had n't penetrated the potential markets , and I did a research project on that , and how we could go about it . ’ |
| 21 | I had to park at The Three Pigeons I could n't get in ! |
| 22 | I felt helpless and despairing and suddenly so ill that I had to clutch at the door to stop myself falling . |
| 23 | I had to laugh at myself for thinking rather longingly now that I should miss it this year , and especially I would miss Addy , whom I loved . |
| 24 | It was n't that the song had a particular relevance — it was n't about AIDS — but it was a song that I felt was the best way of expressing myself and also the best thing I had to offer at the time . |
| 25 | During the interviews I tried to probe whether what was meant was the ageing of the population , a change of atmosphere , the community 's material demise or what ; but on occasion I had to guess at what the informant really meant . |
| 26 | Dad and Eva could discuss the most trivial things , like the nature of the people Dad met on the train , for hours , until I had to shout at them , ‘ What the fuck are you talking about ! ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Wendy went to Glasgow and had a direct trip ; I had to change at Rugby on the way north and at Carstairs coming south . |
| 29 | from Liverpool Street I wanted to get to Oxford Circus which meant that I had to change at , I forget where now , because I 'm in such a , a muddle now after all this , |
| 30 | ‘ It was n't that , it was the amount of time I have to spend at home … helping with Jennifer , ’ she added . |