Example sentences of "[pron] had [to-vb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore I had to do some work last week . |
| 2 | I had to do some custard in the microwave last night , cos it might of , came out like slut |
| 3 | No , I had to borrow some money off Maggie this morning to pay me bill . |
| 4 | I had to hold some emergency meetings once , during the preparations for Billy Graham 's Euro 70 Crusade at Dortmund in 1970 . |
| 5 | I HAD to spend some time comforting a distraught mother whose child was thought to have a behavioural problem . |
| 6 | I had to presume some sort of sexual relationship between the girl and him — to do otherwise would have been naive ; but for all that there had been something much more daughterly , affectionately protective , than sexual in her glance back at him . |
| 7 | And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs |
| 8 | ‘ But I had to have some excuse , you see . |
| 9 | My dad says I ca n't have sweets because I had to have some teeth out . |
| 10 | I remember I had to get some photos so I could get into the swimming pool for nothing . |
| 11 | I felt that I had to make some sort of social effort so I swung my legs off the bed and sat sheepishly on the edge . |
| 12 | I had to make some sort of last-ditch stand . |
| 13 | I had to pay some money , I just forget now , very little but er as I 've said half a dozen times now , I always wanted to do what was right , you know , and I aim to do that . |
| 14 | But what made me decide I 'd had enough was when one night about 11pm I was about to climb into bed when the bell rang from the drawing room so I had to slip some clothes on and go and answer it . |
| 15 | First , while the water was boiling , I had to find some piece of stout wood to hold the boy 's dropped foot in the proper position — ‘ the position of function ’ as Reid had called it . |
| 16 | I did n't , know how to land , I had to grab some height . |
| 17 | ‘ Someone had to knock some sense into me . |
| 18 | She told Annie that she had to do some shopping , then doubled back and waited . |
| 19 | ‘ She had to take some things over to the hospital for Adam . ’ |
| 20 | I mean he she was going on that tape about she had to replace some things . |
| 21 | But she had to give some thought to him , too . |
| 22 | She put the telephone down on the floor and knelt beside it , facing Shildon and saying Tavett was in trouble and she had to make some calls . |
| 23 | She had to get some sleep . |
| 24 | She had to get some rest or she was going to fall apart . |
| 25 | She had to meet Rainald first , she had to gain some time for Edmund , she had to — |
| 26 | Cuzco , however , like Florence , another beautiful red-roofed city , was able to retain its dignity and integrity under the tourist onslaught ; to demand that here at least , no matter how flimsy your knowledge , you had to reach some accommodation with the past . |
| 27 | and that , that would be because your , your twenty million pounds in it has really got no erm , had got no independent justification on arbitrary limiting a number of people able to compete , but what , what if you 're able to satisfy everybody that you had to have some pay out capital , twenty million is ridiculous |
| 28 | But happen it 's for the best ; you had to know some time . |
| 29 | But there , one had to take some chances in life . |
| 30 | We had to lift some floorboards and they turned out to need replacing . |