Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] had [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I eventually had to place a book order after scouring the shelves of shops and libraries . |
| 2 | The tone controls really are sensitive and , being used to the somewhat reluctant EQ on my own amplifier , I found that I only had to move the X-Amp 's a few degrees before the sound began to change radically . |
| 3 | I only had to hold the end of the string , while my friend went round the circle , so I thought I 'd have a rest , and so … |
| 4 | I trained every one of those dancers at LCDT — hand picked them — I only had to begin a movement and they would finish it . |
| 5 | ‘ I just had to turn the telly over . |
| 6 | all mothers are sacred but I just had to put the boot in on her , I 'm afraid , I said stuff ! |
| 7 | Well , after Marks advert for Clubcall I decided I just had to hijack the fax machines telephone line and call it up . |
| 8 | And er one day I was bathing Judy in the hut and the bell went and I just had to wrap a towel round her , you know , and run down to the sandy wadders And things got so bad , we went back to Khartoum |
| 9 | I once had to have a leg replaced when a couple of Hunters tore mine off . |
| 10 | I once had to have the gnomic response of one respected editor of a major journal interpreted for me by a senior colleague . |
| 11 | If I ever had to qualify an audit report , I 'd run it past Claire first . |
| 12 | That was your annual affair and the er the er the chapel itself was at the end of it used to put up a tiered platform if you can imagine it you know at the end of the little chapel and the erm the younger children was on the bottom and as you got older you graduated to the top and er I do n't know why it was though but er I always had to say the collection piece . |
| 13 | I always had to pay a nurse to look after her ; she wasted away , could n't stand or walk , but her eyes were as bright as a child 's and so was her wit . |
| 14 | I still had to use the yarn separators though . ) |
| 15 | Nothing put me off , I 'm happy to say , but in the years before I got the chance to enjoy what I did for a living , I still had to pay the rent . |
| 16 | But I still had to pay the new increase like ! |
| 17 | I had got to the beach , but I still had to find the dinghy — and Joanna . |
| 18 | I still had to get the hay down from the top byre to take to the cattle in the bottom byre on my sledge . |
| 19 | It was going to be a long night , as I also had to finish an already over-due essay on Swedish expansion in the seventeenth century ( it would have to be a goodish one , too ; an earlier remark — made in an unguarded moment during a methodically boring tutorial — ascribing Swedish territorial gains in the Baltic to the invention of the Smorgasbord with its take-what-you-want ethic , had not endeared me to the professor concerned ; nor had my subsequent discourse on the innate frivolity of the Swedes , despite what I thought was the irrefutable argument that no nation capable of giving a Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger could possibly be accused of lacking a sense of humour . |
| 20 | I polished the steel with bath-brick ; and I also had to do the morning-room stove . |
| 21 | ‘ The treatment was two doses of a very potent drug with rather nasty side effects ; I also had to swallow a small container on the end of a string and sleep with the string taped to my cheek all night ; in the morning it was drawn out with a sample of stomach contents . |
| 22 | I really had to borrow the fare here . ’ |
| 23 | If I really had to spend a long time hurting someone slowly , I 'd have to use a blindfold : them or me , one of us would have to have their eyes hidden . |
| 24 | ‘ Maggie started going at me about whether I really had finished the affair yet . |
| 25 | Nor was I surprised that I often had to show the students how language use might be made meaningful . |
| 26 | I even had to cancel a team match on the Sunday , but I thought it would be well worth it with so much at stake . |
| 27 | Well shall I tell you that a certain member of the er medical staff , you know they 've got bollards where the staff can put their cars in a certain place , and one member of the staff came out and said , please remove your car it 's in the staff parking part , the person said , yes I even had to move the bollard . |
| 28 | However , there was nothing I could do about it , and I simply had to accept the situation . |
| 29 | I rudely announced to my wife Claudia that I simply had to have a baby by the time I was 35 . |
| 30 | ‘ I simply had to have a break . |