Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [to-vb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to lie in the darkness , still as a corpse . |
| 2 | I had to sleep in the same room as loads of them on account of we said I was his secretary . ’ |
| 3 | One queer I had to slug in the face and jump out of his car . ‘ |
| 4 | I knew I should not miss that appointment with him and I had to succeed in the match , ’ he said . |
| 5 | When I bought my first company and began to build up the business , I had to live in the city , so that I was at the centre of things . |
| 6 | But I had to go in the loft . |
| 7 | I had to go in the office every Friday night and I was only earning about two pounds seventeen and six a week and they use and Deputy Harbourmaster , Captain , he say , how much you earned this week he say , three pound , I 'm asking you four he say , well they 'd take it off you and er you 'd be paying it now , takes about six months , and he old Harbourmaster see you about the quay he said . |
| 8 | So the two of us went off to Peel and er anyway they paid us , they paid for our lunch and er and so that was alright and of course I had to go in the witness box , you see and swear on the bible , you know , the whole truth , nothing but the truth , you see . |
| 9 | I had to dive in the corner and make like a garden gnome … ’ |
| 10 | Before they gave me a bike I had to earn it , I had to work in the garden . |
| 11 | To do this , I had to look in the directory . ’ |
| 12 | I had to look in the top of his wardrobe . |
| 13 | I had to stand in the middle of this studio , the floor strewn with these bones and meat , and play guitar . |
| 14 | She had to sit in the waiting-room , on a slippery horsehair sofa , while it was going on . |
| 15 | When she married she had to live in the country and , instead of bemoaning what she 'd lost in the way of concerts and the theatre , she enjoyed what was on offer . |
| 16 | He explained she had to stand in the wings directing the beam of a torch at a strategically placed mirror which would send a reflection of light dancing across the back-cloth of Never-Never Land . |
| 17 | And she had to come in the car while I |
| 18 | She had to wash in the shed some distance from the tower which has no bathroom facilities . |
| 19 | She arrived in central London so late that she had to park in the street outside the English department , with not a free parking meter in sight . |
| 20 | If a docker , you got to help the dockers down the hold , if you ai n't got the crane driving to do , you had to go in the warehouse if there ai n't nothing to do . |
| 21 | Because you had to put in the level plugs for them to keep the level and the centre lines to keep the centre . |
| 22 | We had a 3.15 PM start , and we 'd only played one hole when the end of the world looked as though it had come and we had to shelter in the R&A tent . |
| 23 | We worked with two pens in the one hand , one for black ink and one for red , and at each weather station we had to draw in the symbols for wind speed and direction , barometric pressure , temperature , cloud type , amount and height , and precipitation , all in black , and the wet bulb temperature and dew point in red . |
| 24 | We had to sit in the waiting room with everyone else . |
| 25 | We had to sit in the shade out the road a bit |
| 26 | When we were four and five we had to sleep in the afternoons on long mats made of shiny grass that left ribbing marks on our skin . |
| 27 | Well , I think that started in the black-out , you know , because , we had to , if the sirens went , you know , we had to stop in the |
| 28 | It was because the parties had all analysed the nature of the problem we had to decide in the same way that it was agreed at the outset of the hearing before us that the central question we had to answer was this : in what capacity are High Court judges sitting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court in disciplinary cases ? |
| 29 | Speaking at the Co-op 's general meeting last night chairman Bill Allison said : ‘ We had to operate in the longest , deepest recession since the war . |
| 30 | We had to stand in the pissing down rain , with the cockney scum , and whats more I could only see one goal , and not even the goal that we scored in . |