Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE FIRST thing I had to do at the NME was draw a cucumber . |
| 2 | He offered me his spare bed for the night , but I could not stand the stench of the creek , and I wanted to make an early start on the work I had to do on Wavebreaker , so I caught the bus to McIllvanney 's boatyard . |
| 3 | The more I had to do with Alec Reid , the more I liked him . |
| 4 | So then er and I had to do with the antique . |
| 5 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 6 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 7 | That was half full of water and the ice had cut through the wood flow down the river , cos the water was coming in like hell and er cos one thing I had to do about it , had like a chain in the , in th in the boat , so we pulled the chain out , I pulled the chain out first and go just got the , the erm hull just above water so I bail the boat out with a bucket chuck it down the side right quick . |
| 8 | Mercifully , I was able to complete all I had to do within a very few days and I wondered whether the Sheikh had put a few words in the right ears . |
| 9 | I did what I had to do in Dublin — you 'll never know what I had to do to survive . |
| 10 | Any entertaining I had to do in London was in the United Services Club . |
| 11 | ‘ I had to lie to you about that , to give you the confidence to stand still . ’ |
| 12 | Afterwards , I had to lie on a bed in a dark room . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I had to lie on this bed with an enormous arch over me and be passed very slowly underneath it . |
| 15 | I had to lie in the darkness , still as a corpse . |
| 16 | Sir , It is a sad reflection on the high street banks ' attitude to their customers that I had to rely on FARMERS WEEKLY for financial information vital to the overall profitability of my farming business . |
| 17 | I had to rely on such copies . |
| 18 | I had to rely on my somewhat suspect shorthand for everything the Bishop said . |
| 19 | Whatever she [ mother ] needs , it 's there regardless … if her money did n't amount to whatever she needed , she would get it , even if I had to borrow for it , she would get it from somewhere . |
| 20 | ‘ I had only returned from a holiday in Dublin and had n't the price of the airline ticket , so I had to borrow from my mum , ’ said Deirdre , who is the mother of a five-year-old daughter , Emma . |
| 21 | I had to mourn for Sesostris so I went back to his house . ’ |
| 22 | I had to guard against any display of triumph . |
| 23 | I had to kneel on the floor to reach it and her fingers fastened in my hair . |
| 24 | I had to sleep with it closed because if I left it open the cat would jump in and more likely than not land from ten feet on to my face — a nasty way to wake up . |
| 25 | I had to sleep with the light on . |
| 26 | When I went home in the school holidays I had to sleep on the bed-settee in the ‘ front room ’ . |
| 27 | I had to sleep in a tee-shirt , and when all the spots started popping I was in the worst state of my life . |
| 28 | I had to sleep in the same room as loads of them on account of we said I was his secretary . ’ |
| 29 | I had to sleep in a car for two weeks . |
| 30 | 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 . |