Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Girl 's do n't ‘ do ’ the season any more ; it 's not like it was in the past , ’ said Sophia Burrell , 17 , who confessed to having missed most of the grooming session laid on by Lucie Clayton School of Modelling , ‘ because I had to do a law course ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ I had to do a scene with an actor playing Big Ears and was thrilled when I was told I 'd got the part , ’ she said . |
| 3 | I had to do a lot of talking to get out of that one , Folly . |
| 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 | ‘ There were a lot of traumatic phone calls between the two of us and I had to do a lot of soul-searching . |
| 6 | I 'm , I think I had to do a days . |
| 7 | When I emerged I had to borrow a pair of chef 's trousers , ’ he admitted . |
| 8 | ‘ I had to sacrifice a lot of things in that movie . |
| 9 | ‘ Three of us carried you , and I was one of the three , and I had to tip a jug of water over you next morning to wake you . ’ |
| 10 | IF I HAD to design a retreat for winter-weary travellers who want familiar hotels but in a different civilisation , I 'd invent Marrakech . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , I had to hold a bloody press conference this morning . |
| 12 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 13 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | I 'd never accept a job where I had to wear a skirt . |
| 16 | She fancies herself as another Madonna , so I had to wear a black bra with dungarees over the top — it looked gross . |
| 17 | This meant that on special occasions I had to wear a black pleated skirt , white blouse and black beret , with white socks and black shoes and , when the weather was cold , a black cloak . |
| 18 | When and I got married I had to wear a size 16 wedding dress . |
| 19 | And to show we were serious I had to leave a little reminder . ’ |
| 20 | I HAD to report a theft the other day . |
| 21 | ‘ I had to put a stop to it , ’ he told Mexican television . |
| 22 | to Mr and Mrs K so , I had to put a note |
| 23 | For my additional assessment I had to plan a facility for a chosen client group . |
| 24 | At this point I had to fly and catch him up , so I flew to Khabarovsk in far east Siberia where I had to spend a night . |
| 25 | With bamboo canes I find the young plants need to be trained to climb , and I had to spend a precious 20 minutes carefully tying in the leader of each plant with raffia . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I was ready to fulfil the condition of my having the operation : I had to spend a year ‘ passing ’ as a male in stereotypical working-class jobs . |
| 28 | ‘ I had to spend a month in a cast , ’ he recalls , ‘ so when they set the cast , I had them set it so I could move my arm just enough to play . ’ |
| 29 | I had to spend a lot of time alone , just thinking . |
| 30 | And I had to spend a whole hour in a meeting not not an hour , two and a half hours in a |