Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [to-vb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to explain to poor Isabella that Mr Edgar had refused to write to her . |
| 2 | I ought to be on holiday , but I was n't : this was merely a brief interlude before I had to report to that wretched banker and enmesh myself in a host of false relationships in the Ingard office , to try to discover — what ? |
| 3 | ‘ I wanted to run away , to hide , but I had to return to this lonely , meaningless place . ’ |
| 4 | I 've been going to bed at half past one and I was doing the T M A for two nights , then I 've been doing his V A T for two nights so I 've got to bed really really late and I just and , the thing is , the T M A were all on about my then I just start to relax I had to resort to herbal knockout drops . |
| 5 | I did it all on me own , of course Alan sat here like a bloody idiot , I said you sit there do n't get , he said I thought you were getting a cloth , I burnt all me arm trying to , jumping out , hacking me hair out there so I had to say to this bloke I said well there 's erm justice for you , he said what ? |
| 6 | He said , whereas my mum over there in the corner , he said , if she had a bash I had to listen to bloody Frank Sinatra , would n't I ? |
| 7 | When Phil Collins came on , his jacket had such wide shoulders that I had to lean to one side to see the monitor TV set which the producer uses to scribble messages to me . |
| 8 | Leith swallowed hard , and knew , before the weakness of loving him , the weakness of wanting him battered down the rest of her defences , small though those defences were , that she had to appeal to that in him which she somehow knew would make him hate himself if he took her . |
| 9 | She is also a great letter-writer , a hangover no doubt from years at boarding school , where she had to write to both parents every week . |
| 10 | And from the way the staff greeted her she was obviously a regular there ; she had to chat to several before taking a glass of wine to a booth towards the front out of Maxim 's sight . |
| 11 | You had to talk to those dear old folk at the Empress and I do n't blame you . |
| 12 | You had to go to such trouble to persuade the subject to accept the poison and when ( or rather , in his case if ) you managed it , your very intimacy made it all too clear to everyone that you were the one who was slipping them the doctored crumble , the dodgy spaghetti bolognese or the potato salad unusually rich in mineral salts . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , yes , but that did n't mean you had to jump to all sorts of other conclusions . ’ |
| 14 | Alright , fair enough , you accepted what we 've been saying for ages that we had to go to voluntary competitive tendering right . |
| 15 | Dr so we had to respond to that , and we responded in a number of ways . |
| 16 | However no-one had ever heard of dancing in Church , except in Seville in Spain , so we had to stick to choral and solo singing . |
| 17 | The dazibao writers regretted the fact that they had to resort to this medium for making their opinions known . |
| 18 | So they had to resort to indirect tactics . |
| 19 | Instead of hearing blocks of questions that used only more , or only less , they had to respond to such questions as ‘ Does this set of lollipops have more lollipops , less lollipops , or the same number of lollipops as this set ? ’ |
| 20 | As there is no school for Tibthorpe children they had to walk to nearby Kirkburn , but today the school bus provides a more convenient form of transport . |
| 21 | The two girls were silent as they cooked and when they had to speak to one another spoke in quick , urgent whispers . |
| 22 | That 's probably why they had to write to each other even after they were married . |
| 23 | It had to come to this , he wrote . |
| 24 | If a union decided to repudiate a strike , it had to write to all its members taking part in the strike to tell them that the union would give no support , and that they risked dismissal without compensation if the strike continued . |
| 25 | Apparently Gagarin said that when he looked out of the right window of his spacecraft and glimpsed the earth for the first time , he had an experience or sense of — and then he used a word which the interpreter did not know the meaning of , so he had to go to another table and ask another interpreter to help . |
| 26 | We told the child that there was a chocolate in one of the boxes and that he had to point to one of them — guessing of course — to tell the experimenter where to look for the chocolate . |
| 27 | He could hardly stand , he had to cling to one of the arms that helped him up . |
| 28 | The idea that the SLD exists to replace Labour carries little conviction , and so he had to bow to those of his followers who advocate an outright anti-Thatcher stance . |
| 29 | The Revolution of 1688 lost D'Urfey the courtly connections he had developed , so that he had to turn to other means of support . |