Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked in and there were twelve fellas sitting in this room and I had to sing in front of them all . |
| 2 | So I had to wait in suspense . |
| 3 | I had to sit in silence for twenty minutes with him and the weird Indian music . |
| 4 | ‘ It meant I had to stay in character for the five weeks between the two periods of works . |
| 5 | I had to stay in camp next day as there was strong opposition to my going out shooting . |
| 6 | I had to stay in bed for two weeks after this , before I felt well enough to meet people again . |
| 7 | I had to stay in prison for a couple of weeks before going to an approved school in Hayes , Middlesex . ’ |
| 8 | If I had to undress in front of them , I 'd be wondering what they were thinking about my body — ‘ Do they think I 'm anorexic , or just plain thin ? |
| 9 | ‘ What happened was this : a dog ran out in front of me as I was leaving the car park , and I had to swerve in order to avoid it . |
| 10 | And of course I had to admit in front of everyone that I did n't . |
| 11 | I had to stand in front of the whole school which gave me ample opportunity to observe the envy on some girls ' faces because knitting for the troops was a popular pastime then . |
| 12 | Doctors told her she needed an emergency hysterectomy , but because of a bed shortage she had to wait in agony for three-and-a-half hours . |
| 13 | Liz was humiliated by this , rather than enraged , but she knew that she had to qualify in order ever to be free and accepted the conditions . |
| 14 | Oh goodness , yes for the damage and you had to go in front of the Harbourmaster . |
| 15 | We started off by using the T-bars which were very awkward because you had to stand in front of a small bar , you could n't sit down or lean forward . |
| 16 | His legs were bare and he was wearing Indian leather sandals , the kind you had to soak in water before you first put them on . |
| 17 | Trouble yeah , trouble I got put off for a fortnight , on the dole , then he , I was on the dole for a week and er he cos at that time you had to appear in front of the erm , what they call the Court of Referees at the Labour Exchange , that was their Committee . |
| 18 | You had to appear in front of them , well this , I 'd been off for a week and the old Harbourmaster old he sent for me and he said erm , you can start work tomorrow as I . |
| 19 | It is as though we had to talk in order to reassure ourselves that we were living . |
| 20 | He said we had to pray in church , not out in the woods . |
| 21 | Tonight , we had to put in order |
| 22 | That bag of vagabonds had to grasp what they had to do in order to get there , which included discipline . |
| 23 | Even in my limited experience I had seen people falling in and out of love , as though , soiled by sorrow and loss , they had to go in search of comfort from one used and lukewarm bath to another . |
| 24 | well I expect if it was a church school they had to put in appearance odd times . |
| 25 | So , I mean , er it 's the proof old folks that get it , they got it in the war time , they had to starve in war time to feed their children . |
| 26 | Nor was the Treasury convinced by the repeated arguments for the costly increases in police manpower which most Home Secretaries felt they had to secure in order to demonstrate their credibility . |
| 27 | Central banks agreed to buy or sell unlimited amounts of currency at points 1 per cent either side of their established par values , although the mere fact that they were prepared and willing to do this was often sufficient to limit the extent to which they had to intervene in practice . |
| 28 | In essence , these created rebates on contributions to occupational schemes and reduced the requirements they had to meet in order to be officially ‘ approved ’ . |
| 29 | The goldsmiths learnt from experience what proportion of gold reserves they had to keep in order to meet day-to-day demands for gold withdrawals . |
| 30 | All this information , compiled during a journey that may have lasted as much as a quarter of an hour , enabled it to deduce the exact course it had to take in order to arrive back at its nest-hole . |