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 | 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 |
| 28 | It was n't until I had to have a full medical two years later that I found I 'd got hookworm . |
| 29 | I had to make a polite pretence at reluctance . |
| 30 | But I had to make a bigger adjustment to studying . |