Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [to-vb] all " in BNC.

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1 K. R. In that time , I had to do all the side streets , milking padlocks .
2 On the last day Seve birdied the first hole and Hale took a six on the second , I can remember the scoring because in those days I had to mark all the cards , and I remember putting Irwin down for a six — and then the card blew in to the bunker on the second and I had to go chasing after it .
3 They were a tremendous help during that period when my athletics earning power was almost nil but I had to devote all my time to athletics to achieve success .
4 and I had to forbid all five of the children from looking .
5 And then when my wife died and I had to sell all you know it disa er I think er it got away with er some old stuff you know .
6 goes , I had to pick all six up for that price , put them away for next year 's presents .
7 And when I was fifteen I had to take all this craziness on my shoulders , there was so much imbalance out there , so much excess .
8 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 .
9 I suppose I would , too , if I had to serve all the creeps that come in here every night . ’
10 And I had to merge all these pictures together .
11 So like , you can imagine I had to have all the strap completely undone so like the , the buckle was like down here !
12 I had to write all about the Mary Rose , Henry VIII 's flagship , ’ says Fiona .
13 Well I had to come all the way back did n't I .
14 Yeah but I 've got ta make so I had to come all the way home !
15 It was like a little explosion because it was n't just a question of telling one other person ; I had to tell my parents and I had to tell all my schoolfriends and make sure that my world existed and to a great extent it did .
16 Oh I , when I , when I went there the next morning I had to tell all in front of the class and tell all the kids .
17 ‘ It was something that I had to experience all by myself . ’
18 And I had to make all these er computations out and er I made fifty that I thought nobody could pick .
19 I had to face all my problems alone .
20 I had to walk all the way to Magnus 's house in the dark because I did n't have any money .
21 So I had to walk all the way . ’
22 The speaker is typically less explicit than the writer : I 'm so tired ( because ) I had to walk all the way home .
23 I had to walk all the way round there in these shoes , they look good but believe me they 're not meant for walking , and in the end she 's not even home .
24 I was the person who was supposed to go to every city before David got there to make sure that everything was in order , that the hall that was going to be performed in had all the facilities that were required — and the hotels — I had to check all of that .
25 Second , I had to pass all my examinations with top grades .
26 It was a good hit , and she had to use all of her concentration not to go down .
27 She had to do all the work of the house , dig the garden , fetch the wood , fill the water.jugs at the village well , and make sure the hearth-stone was hot .
28 She had no time for idle gossip as she had to do all the work herself .
29 She had to take all the money in his wallet , she explained , because her ‘ business manager ’ would beat her up if she did n't turn in the profits .
30 She had to take all her clothes off and wear just the chiffon tunic with the white satin ribbons criss-crossed between her breasts ( which , she observed with interest , seemed to have grown and the nipples to have got rather darker . )
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