Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are not on the whole involved in direct teaching and , second , each of them has to have a separate viewpoint because the focus of the job is mainly outside that of any school . |
| 2 | I was deter , you see I , I have to set a good example to Neil . |
| 3 | Would I have to take a flexi-day to play for England ? … mmm , I wonder ? |
| 4 | Do I have to wear a cheap suit and drive a Sierra to get invited . |
| 5 | Do I have to have a Compact job ? |
| 6 | That 's a I I had to do a little bit of er adaption work on the on the curtain rail put that on . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , I had to hold a bloody press conference this morning . |
| 8 | The next day I had to wear a long Kamiz over my trousers and have a scarf covering my head — can you imagine going to school like that … |
| 9 | She fancies herself as another Madonna , so I had to wear a black bra with dungarees over the top — it looked gross . |
| 10 | This meant that on special occasions I had to wear a black pleated skirt , white blouse and black beret , with white socks and black shoes and , when the weather was cold , a black cloak . |
| 11 | And to show we were serious I had to leave a little reminder . ’ |
| 12 | My wife and I were very happy ; we had a house outside the town , though I had to spend a great deal of time in Berlin . |
| 13 | With bamboo canes I find the young plants need to be trained to climb , and I had to spend a precious 20 minutes carefully tying in the leader of each plant with raffia . |
| 14 | And I had to spend a whole hour in a meeting not not an hour , two and a half hours in a |
| 15 | Nina knows about the lymphoma ; I had to cancel a prearranged lunch at Langans with her as it coincided with my short stay in hospital , and rather than make up an excuse I thought it an opportune time to tell her . |
| 16 | I had to cancel a live radio performance and head for Stornoway , home of the Calvinist hits , where the black puddings come in square boxes in case the ministers think they 're too phallic . |
| 17 | If I had to give a single criterion of that dubious category , the homosexual sensibility , it would be this connection between perversity and paradox — if only because it suggests why that sensibility does not exist as such . |
| 18 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 19 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 20 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 21 | Intimidated by the vast sweep of Morecambe Bay 's shifting sands below , I had to reverse a strenuous move and , in the days before I discovered contact lenses , ended up entangled in awkward loops of rope , my spectacles askew and dangling precariously from one ear . |
| 22 | ‘ And I had to lose a good , good woman before I came to my senses . |
| 23 | I had to take a long , hard look at him before I was sure . |
| 24 | This time I had to take a double dose to return to my old shape . |
| 25 | Ken said , ‘ I had to have a new banjo . |
| 26 | I had decided that I had to have a partial confidant at the school . |
| 27 | It was n't until I had to have a full medical two years later that I found I 'd got hookworm . |
| 28 | I had to make a polite pretence at reluctance . |
| 29 | So I said I had to make a quick decision either I was going to go up me chain past his whatsit and into the roof , or else go thirty feet down and run right across the chamber into whichever er level they could go to . |
| 30 | They dragged me to the Police Station where I had to make a detailed statement of everything that had happened the first time intercourse took place . |