Example sentences of "i have [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd gone to school longer than the others .
2 Okay I pretended I 'd gone to school and I 'd
3 But she made no move to leave , so I had to say not at all , I 'd gone to bed because it seemed the warmest place .
4 I 'd gone to ground so the culprit could not have known of my presence .
5 I 'd wanted to mooch round Bristol 's hills and shops , its hidden alleyways and markets , along all those rivers .
6 As we careered down towards South Wimbledon , I remembered other trips I 'd taken to church .
7 Went to bed and I 'd got to bed and I 'd been there I do n't know how long
8 I 'd got to college , done well .
9 ‘ I wish I 'd changed to diesel long ago .
10 Er we left at er seventeen minutes to two erm having explained that er we have put a very respectable budget on the table er which was prudence as prudence personified er and that was something we felt the other two groups of the Liberal Democrats were the only ones there at the time er besides them do that we 'd er I have to say to chairman that er the voted it is now being cobbled together er by the other two groups is eight hundred thousand pounds plus er in excess of the budget which the Conservative Group would want to see and just for the record , it 's about the same sum of money that we 've been saving on the fire cover in
11 Do I have to go to sleep ?
12 But then a week later my clubs turned up ( all but the woods ) so I changed the claim I had made to insurance company just so if covered the woods the money came very quickly for once .
13 I had sought to interest some of the more enterprising newspapers , especially as I hoped to be able , if possible , to push on to Abyssinia ; but , in the end , I went in independence , as I have undertaken most excursions , both terrestrial and mental .
14 And I had to drive to Mould oh !
15 Food was short and for two days I was kept running round trying to buy up supplies , with the result that I had to retire to bed with blistered feet .
16 Yeah because I had said to father during the day on Sunday , I wonder if any of our children are alive ?
17 I had to listen to Radio Suffolk this morning and Debenham was a school mentioned to be closed today .
18 Of course he was n't always there because frequently there were notes from his mother to say that he had earache or something , but later on I realized , of course , that those notes had been faked , the same as the notes that I had sent to school from my mother several generations before that .
19 Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture .
20 Matron said I had to go to bed early for a fortnight .
21 But when it got dark , I had to go to bed because I had no light .
22 Er like such as er like er at er night time before we went , we always used to I had to go to bed early .
23 And when I was n't with her , like when I had to go to school and she had to stay behind in my bedroom until I came home , she was all I could think about .
24 But I saw , I went into town yesterday , have n't been into town and I saw er , I 'm just going up past the job centre I had to go to council about me money and I thought well I suppose I ought to make an effort and look in the job centre cos I , I ai n't done because I 've been in catering all the while
25 I had to go to court , to pay five bob , cos I were riding a bike without a light .
26 Do you remember when I come home from er Welwyn and I , I had to go to court ?
27 But in saying that , I , I would n't of minded if I had to go to college full-time cos I enjoyed it .
28 Then I had to go to hospital for a while .
29 he passed his eleven plus as it was then and er he went to a school called Regent Street Grammar school in Plymouth and when we moved in here I had to go to Holly House , I think they call it
30 I suppose if I had gone to school , my life would be completely changed .
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