Example sentences of "[conj] i have [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was for you that I had to leave that hotel suite and not return until daylight . ’ |
| 2 | And that 's a bit like that erm the teaching skills that I had to do that time when I was on the course . |
| 3 | Something of the casual innocence of the picture may be lost when I tell you that I had to hunt this particular combination of light for two days before obtaining the shot I wanted ! |
| 4 | When I reached Ostend at midday on 16th there was no ticket but only a message to the effect that I had to buy another one . |
| 5 | While I sympathize with the caller from West Calder , I feel we pay poll tax as well to cover all these things but when I bought my house , my solicitor had me in for two hours and went through all my obligations under the title deeds part of was , that I had to pay one three hundredths of keeping the open areas clean and tidy plus grass cutting . |
| 6 | The amounts of exercise I did meant that I had to eat more than my father ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was ironic in retrospect that I had to travel half way round the globe to get to know working class men from my own back yard . |
| 9 | My contract said very clearly that I had to have complete control of the making of the film , so I asked Darryl Zanuck if he would please replace me and I would give him the necessary time to find someone else . |
| 10 | I had two , and then Gabriel was an accident , and somehow the thought that he was an accident was so insulting to me that I had to have some more , to prove that he was n't . |
| 11 | ‘ It was something that I had to experience all by myself . ’ |
| 12 | I 've always got on well with adults , but it 's only now that I 'm starting to get on with my own generation , and I realise that I have to do that if I 'm to become a whole person . |
| 13 | The new flat was smaller than the old so I had to sell some of my furniture . |
| 14 | I was coming back to teach in England after teaching in Nigeria , so I had to get used to the whole thing again . |
| 15 | However , I knew you would n't do it , so I had to get Lori to own up . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ My first baby changing bag ( Mothercare , £13.50 ) fell apart , so I had to buy another one and I bought a baby changing mat ( £6 ) . |
| 18 | because it was Tuesday so I had to have next choose the following weeks ' . |
| 19 | ‘ I also have to accept that maybe I 'm not that versatile , so I have to make sure that I 'm in the right situation to show myself off to my best advantage . |
| 20 | ‘ So I have to fail all my GCSEs so I can find out what you knew all the time ? ’ |
| 21 | People get confused then they think , Oh when something I 've got to and I 've to read all those messages a lack of rapport really is n't it ? |
| 22 | And I had to say this in front of my mother who had to be present , which was even more degrading . |
| 23 | My master came back , slightly bemused , lost in his own thoughts and I had to repeat two or three times what Mathilda had told me . |
| 24 | and I had to forbid all five of the children from looking . |
| 25 | I went to the doctor , but he just sent a letter to the Detox Unit and I had to wait three months [ for the appointment ] . |
| 26 | It got quite bad after a while and I had to hold hot towels underneath him to get the blood moving . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And that was all copper , and I had to clean that every morning with a kind of paste ; and to do all the stairs and landings , and the rooms downstairs . |
| 29 | And I had to merge all these pictures together . |
| 30 | And I had to play several different instruments as well . |