Example sentences of "[pron] had [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 THE FIRST thing I had to do at the NME was draw a cucumber .
2 So then er and I had to do with the antique .
3 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 .
4 I had to lie in the darkness , still as a corpse .
5 I had to kneel on the floor to reach it and her fingers fastened in my hair .
6 I had to sleep with the light on .
7 When I went home in the school holidays I had to sleep on the bed-settee in the ‘ front room ’ .
8 I had to sleep in the same room as loads of them on account of we said I was his secretary . ’
9 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 .
10 One queer I had to slug in the face and jump out of his car . ‘
11 and financial circumstances and erm , this was something of course that I had to leave to the people who were working got himself another job .
12 I did not see the trophy presented this time as I had to leave before the last race .
13 Irish hockey coach Cees Koppelaar reflects on his team 's failure to qualify for the World Cup and his plans for the future I know there was some criticism when I had to leave before the final inter-provincial game in Dublin last season — that was because of my club commitments in Holland .
14 I had to fumble for the torch in the dark and work out for myself how to fix my bunk .
15 I woke again , I had to put on the light .
16 " I 'm sorry to have kept you waiting , but I had to finish with the man I had with me .
17 I knew I should not miss that appointment with him and I had to succeed in the match , ’ he said .
18 Well , what I had to do , I had to swim under the water
19 At the same time , while ensuring the blue of sky in front of the camera , I had to wait for the sun to fall on the scene from behind me , otherwise the sparkle of beach and palms would have been lost .
20 I had to wait for the right moment to tell Nicola .
21 It was already nearly six o'clock , and I would n't be able to find a one-hour photo lab open anywhere that evening ; and I had to return to the Sheraton to collect my bag , and be back on the train by seven-thirty or soon after .
22 But I had to return to the subject of Frankenstein .
23 I had to return to the area of the shrine .
24 I knew that if I had to drive to the park or into the country first , then the walking would never get done except at weekends .
25 It 's like when I was a kid and when everybody else in the grammar school got school dinners I had to queue outside the headmaster 's office every morning for me free dinner ticket . ’
26 I had to stall on the .
27 He listened to what I had to say about the procedure still to be gone through and hoped that they would soon hear whether Balbinder had a place .
28 I shall not attempt to repeat what I said then , for repetition makes bores of us all in the House ; I am glad , however , that the scepticism that greeted what I had to say about the benefits of a single European currency has since been replaced by understanding and support in several quarters .
29 Feeling that anything I had to say on the subject would drive passengers to reach for the inflight discomfort receptacle , I asked my spellchecker to do it instead .
30 Then I was promoted to assistant cashier at the Wandsworth branch where I had to deal with the toll accounts to go to head office as well as the share accounts and the dividends .
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