Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | I HAD to report a theft the other day . |
| 32 | ‘ I had to put a stop to it , ’ he told Mexican television . |
| 33 | to Mr and Mrs K so , I had to put a note |
| 34 | For my additional assessment I had to plan a facility for a chosen client group . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 40 | I had to spend a lot of time alone , just thinking . |
| 41 | And I had to spend a whole hour in a meeting not not an hour , two and a half hours in a |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | ‘ By Donington I went to the start grid knowing I had to finish a race , regardless of my position . |
| 45 | I was so excited , I had to fax a friend of mine , who is really wrapped up in the Royal Family , saying : ‘ Guess who I met ? ’ |
| 46 | He took a tentative bite and then started howling again , so I had to open a tin of Whiskas — turkey flavour , full price . |
| 47 | Well I had to replace a s er two slates on on my roof . |
| 48 | I felt I had to push a bit harder to get to the answer in the lesson . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | As a result of these negotiations , some of the original proposals had to be modified and , of course , I had to give a guarantee of absolute confidentiality to everyone involved , directly or indirectly , with the research . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 53 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 54 | In the pause that followed I had to stifle a feeling of panic . |
| 55 | On Saint Theresa 's day I had to paint a frieze of watercolour rose petals to run the length of the classroom walls . |
| 56 | Even then one colour ran out and I had to use a substitute on the back , which did n't really matter in the general pattern . |
| 57 | I had to use a teaspoon . |
| 58 | I had to use a lot of rudder to keep sailing on a straight course . |
| 59 | ‘ In the end I ran out of material so I had to use a sketch devised by my son ! |
| 60 | 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 . |