Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] have [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was shaking so much that I had to lift the kettle with two hands when I staggered down the yard . |
| 2 | ‘ I decided that I had to put the headmaster in a position to answer and it was this problem that worried me most — more than the outrageous charges against myself and the effect on my family . |
| 3 | Had interview with housing official who stated that I had to transfer the tenancy from my wife 's name to mine and then something would be done within a week . |
| 4 | It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers . |
| 5 | I told an uninterested reception clerk that I had to catch the boat train ( let them look for me in Calais , I thought . |
| 6 | That morning Doreen 's absence meant that I had to make the coffee and take in the biscuits to Mr Hutton . |
| 7 | Back down here I told him that I had to get the sex business cleared up . |
| 8 | IT IS with regret that I have to report the death of one of our Trowbridge pensioners on . |
| 9 | You will , I 'm sure , understand that I have to plan the content of each edition well in advance . |
| 10 | In the time that I have to move the report I 'd like to concentrate on some of the developments that have been taking place in health and safety this is not to , er , give the impression that environmental developments are not important but over this next year the government are going to be taking certain measures that we need to be aware of , er , in the health and safety area . |
| 11 | You know that I have to work the land down there . |
| 12 | Not that I have to make the same choices as someone I acknowledge to be more discriminating , since my differently constituted palate may react differently , but my own choice will be better informed if I heed nuances which I would have missed if he had not pointed them out . |
| 13 | Things became so bad for the Charles Bal later on in the evening that she had to spend the entire night tacking back and forth south east of Krakatoa , probably remaining within twenty kilometres of it — the ash-fall from the eruption was so thick that Captain Watson could not see well enough to steer away to safety , but ironically , the glare from the volcano provided a weird and somewhat improbable lighthouse . |
| 14 | Diana admitted to Penny that she could n't bear the pressure of her position any longer and that she had to leave the system . |
| 15 | A close friend confirmed : ‘ He told her in no uncertain terms that she had to consider the repercussions of her actions to the Queen . |
| 16 | Charlie tell us that she has to programme the computers to show the correct illustrations . |
| 17 | The plaintiff 's position now is that she has to face the fact that she 's wheelchair bound for life and unable to speak . |
| 18 | Well I stayed on as an orderly because they said that I could erm I could marry because er I was n't erm classed as erm tt Er I would n't pass it on to me husband , so I could marry , provided I I prevented having children for er five years , that you had to see the Doctor until The medical Doctor at Nottingham , until he pronounced you clear , you see ? |
| 19 | But then when you do peel them away , whether you can have a potentiality , like the when talked about he talked about either side of his face timeless void that you had to see the limit of it so that you could have erm that that I was in this body and there 's something about this body that I 'm going to go back into the body and then that could differentiate perhaps . |
| 20 | In this one we had n't told you that you had to strip formwork , that you had to er , make the formwork , that you had to fix the steel , you had to know this from your own knowledge . |
| 21 | There were all these agit prop politics that you had to toe the line about . |
| 22 | This grandmother was a lasting influence , ‘ because she always insisted that you had to have the best of everything . |
| 23 | Oh no they did n't allow that you had to have the book . |
| 24 | I always knew that you had to have the important artists around too . |
| 25 | you could tie it , it had like pearl , ribbon that you had to tie the book to , to close it , there were some really nice ones were n't there ? |
| 26 | Then there was some talk of placing portions in various magazines , so that you had to buy the lot in order to read the book . |
| 27 | You may well find that you have to use the choke chain more than normal when you are first walking along the street as the dog will be more inclined to pause for scents than before . |
| 28 | The whole thing about a talk show is that you have to ask the questions that people are interested in — not in a way that puts the guest on the spot or makes them feel awkward — we 're not out to ‘ get ’ anyone , that 's not the idea of it at all — but certain things must be asked . |
| 29 | But the idea that you have to see the original film is misplaced and outmoded . |
| 30 | Incidentally , one way to motivate yourself if things do get sticky is to imagine that you have to explain the subject to the class the next day . |