Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [to-vb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It 's good to be just one of a group of comedians doing warm up sometimes you do ten minutes one night I had to do six hours because things were n't ready .
2 I had to do twenty-three miles tomorrow and then , if I let the lads carry the wheelbarrow into Reggane on Friday , I could run the final seventeen miles .
3 I had to do ten weeks glass cleaning .
4 I had to score eight points at Bradford to make my trip financially successful . ’
5 Tony tells us about his lone stay in the Westmann Islands off Iceland when I had to leave four days earlier than him .
6 I had to mention one thing then , that if my children came home for Christmas , or for a holiday , or for a little visit , we should all have to squeeze up .
7 Erm just remembering say I had to put four O Hs with N H , I was sometimes I was getting it right sometimes I was getting it wrong and stuff like that .
8 I had to spend three days in bed and did n't really kick a ball in the build-up to the Highfield Road game .
9 I had to replace four needles in all after that disaster .
10 I had to wait four days before I could risk flying her again .
11 I had to wait two hours before seeing him as he was in conference with a producer .
12 At the hospital , I had to wait thirty minutes before getting attention .
13 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 ] .
14 I had to sell three horses to stay in my yard , plus three shares in Carfax just to keep going .
15 I had to take two trains and a bus ; by the time I got there I was bleeding badly , giddy and incoherent with exhaustion .
16 On one occasion , when the Land Rover was only half a mile away , I had to go three miles to reach it .
17 If I had to choose one man to kick a 40-yard penalty from close to the touchline to rescue The Earth from being knocked out of the Inter-Galactic Cup in the last minute , Grant Fox would be the man …
18 So I had to have eleven appointments to get my two sales a week .
19 ‘ Oh , Mary , I had to journey two centuries to find such a lover !
20 Ah I ai n't got no money for you babe , oh I know what I did , I had to count twenty pence worth of co er coppers on me
21 I had to get four pints of milk , you know oh honestly
22 I had to get one bag I did n't like to ask her for two .
23 When I first started work here I had to make 14 motors per hour .
24 well , do n't you remember I had to pay one pound fifty something last Christmas
25 Often I had to learn two beats per night .
26 I had to walk three mile to work , Doubled up when you got so far down .
27 I have to spend three hours a day doing all sorts of muscle-building and strengthening exercises .
28 Since my accident , I have to spend three hours every day doing muscle-building and strengthening exercises
29 That since January I now I have to put two stamps on a week , which makes it eight ninety a week , right ?
30 and I have to record ten tapes by Monday which I have to get up at ten thirty in the morning when I 've got no school and take it back up to the school .
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