Example sentences of "[pron] had [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For I had to stay at home and look after me farm for . |
| 32 | You knew perfectly well I had to stay within reach of the hospital over the weekend . |
| 33 | ‘ It meant I had to stay in character for the five weeks between the two periods of works . |
| 34 | I had to stay in camp next day as there was strong opposition to my going out shooting . |
| 35 | I had to stay in bed for two weeks after this , before I felt well enough to meet people again . |
| 36 | I had to stay in prison for a couple of weeks before going to an approved school in Hayes , Middlesex . ’ |
| 37 | The company chief , who also has a £1 million manor house at Seend , Wilts , took the microphone to say : ‘ I had to file for bankruptcy yesterday . |
| 38 | I had to come into town anyway ; it was only a short detour to your place . |
| 39 | ‘ I had to get to hospital . |
| 40 | We shall just have to pretend it 's not there , there 's not , there 's not quite as bad as when I had to speak for Amnesty on Radio Essex last year and it was live , as every word , every word I spoke was being you know being heard by a lot of people and that 's , that was very , that was very intimidating . |
| 41 | If I had to undress in front of them , I 'd be wondering what they were thinking about my body — ‘ Do they think I 'm anorexic , or just plain thin ? |
| 42 | Suppose , well , I say not thinking one evening , I nearly missed the bus this morning , I had to run like billy-o , sure as fate Aunt Annie would say , think yourself lucky you can run . |
| 43 | It was the obvious reaction I had to make as Minister . |
| 44 | ‘ What happened was this : a dog ran out in front of me as I was leaving the car park , and I had to swerve in order to avoid it . |
| 45 | ‘ One of the first things I had to learn by heart when I went to Maythorpe House was a poem by an Englishman , Laurence Binyon . |
| 46 | And of course I had to admit in front of everyone that I did n't . |
| 47 | I had to apply for access — access to my own daughter who I 'd lived with all her life . |
| 48 | Even Stella , McIllvanney 's long-suffering secretary , had taken the day off , leaving the office locked , which meant I had to walk into town to find a public telephone from which I called the Bahamian Police and told them about Hirondelle , and added that I had rescued a chart and a handful of cartridges from the stricken boat . |
| 49 | Because Jean-Claude hated to be questioned about anything relating to his family , I had to commit to memory every little detail he let slip . |
| 50 | I had to stand on tiptoe to reach the brass knocker , which had appeared since the previous day . |
| 51 | I had to stand in front of the whole school which gave me ample opportunity to observe the envy on some girls ' faces because knitting for the troops was a popular pastime then . |
| 52 | After that I searched high and low for a new teacher , and when I found one I had to start from scratch . |
| 53 | He had obligations to the universal episcopate which had to act in harmony for the unity of the church . |
| 54 | He was obviously worried about the future of a state which had to resort to terror in order to maintain its supremacy . |
| 55 | The largest single shipload so far discovered were the 524 Chinese passengers on the East Wood which had to call for help when it broke down near the Marshall Islands earlier this year . |
| 56 | I believe what you believe , that God came down to Mary , who was a virgin , in the form of a dove — or was that to her mother , so that Mary could get pregnant and be an immaculate conception , which had to happen on account of how sex is so polluting , and give birth to Jesus ? |
| 57 | But the difference also reflects the need for autarchy within district management teams in the NHS , which had to deal with uncertainty about patient outcomes within a vague set of government guidelines . |
| 58 | Peter Shillinglaw , secretary of New Brighton Lifeboat which had to go into action a few times , said : ‘ I can not help but think the organisers of this race have been very , very lucky over the years . ’ |
| 59 | On the surface Caesar appeared to be a supremely selfish individual , but then she had to take into account that having virtue he had no need of goodness . |
| 60 | Doctors told her she needed an emergency hysterectomy , but because of a bed shortage she had to wait in agony for three-and-a-half hours . |