Example sentences of "i have [to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do I have to condition new floorboards before laying them ? |
| 2 | Will I have to make any adjustments ? |
| 3 | ‘ It 's good to be just one of a group of comedians doing warm up sometimes you do ten minutes one night I had to do six hours because things were n't ready . |
| 4 | ’ I had to do extra rehearsals because I was new and she would daub my legs with methylated spirits and iodine . |
| 5 | Everything had a value , I had to do these jobs round the house , bring in the logs , clean the car . |
| 6 | I had to do twenty-three miles tomorrow and then , if I let the lads carry the wheelbarrow into Reggane on Friday , I could run the final seventeen miles . |
| 7 | I had to do ten weeks glass cleaning . |
| 8 | It got quite bad after a while and I had to hold hot towels underneath him to get the blood moving . |
| 9 | ‘ I had to score eight points at Bradford to make my trip financially successful . ’ |
| 10 | Tony tells us about his lone stay in the Westmann Islands off Iceland when I had to leave four days earlier than him . |
| 11 | If I had to nominate those politicians whose views I most trusted , who have most clearly articulated my own fluid , contingent thoughts on the crisis as it developed , I would opt for two pensionable septuagenarians , both of whom I despised in their political heyday : Denis Healey , who sold the Labour government to the IMF , and Ted Heath , who became the Tories ' lamest duck of all . |
| 12 | That 's when I had to put these things onto dea er put death certificates into th their the doctor 's certificate into English , erm they were pretty good , t others were n't so g , er you know , were n't so good . |
| 13 | I had to spend three days in bed and did n't really kick a ball in the build-up to the Highfield Road game . |
| 14 | I had to replace four needles in all after that disaster . |
| 15 | I had to wait four days before I could risk flying her again . |
| 16 | I had to wait two hours before seeing him as he was in conference with a producer . |
| 17 | At the hospital , I had to wait thirty minutes before getting attention . |
| 18 | I went to the doctor , but he just sent a letter to the Detox Unit and I had to wait three months [ for the appointment ] . |
| 19 | However , I had to promise certain things : |
| 20 | I can usually pick up a ball with one hand , but as I was laying over the ball , I had to use both hands to pick it up , and already a Cardiff forward was rushing down on me . |
| 21 | I had to use big pieces because it was too difficult to join small pieces together . |
| 22 | ‘ I had to sell three horses to stay in my yard , plus three shares in Carfax just to keep going . |
| 23 | I had to take two trains and a bus ; by the time I got there I was bleeding badly , giddy and incoherent with exhaustion . |
| 24 | On one occasion , when the Land Rover was only half a mile away , I had to go three miles to reach it . |
| 25 | I had to repeat whole sections of my ‘ ritual register ’ , to stop myself from eidetiking , to stop myself from spoiling her image . |
| 26 | So I had to have eleven appointments to get my two sales a week . |
| 27 | My dad says I ca n't have sweets because I had to have some teeth out . |
| 28 | ‘ I had to play bigger points from the back of the court because I had to be more relaxed because I was worried about what I had done to myself , ’ he said . |
| 29 | And they used to catch pheasants and er I had to clean I had to pluck these pheasants and er birds and get them ready and ready for them to put in the oven . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , Mary , I had to journey two centuries to find such a lover ! |