Example sentences of "i had [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He offered me his spare bed for the night , but I could not stand the stench of the creek , and I wanted to make an early start on the work I had to do on Wavebreaker , so I caught the bus to McIllvanney 's boatyard . |
| 2 | The more I had to do with Alec Reid , the more I liked him . |
| 3 | Any entertaining I had to do in London was in the United Services Club . |
| 4 | I did what I had to do in Dublin — you 'll never know what I had to do to survive . |
| 5 | Sir , It is a sad reflection on the high street banks ' attitude to their customers that I had to rely on FARMERS WEEKLY for financial information vital to the overall profitability of my farming business . |
| 6 | I had to mourn for Sesostris so I went back to his house . ’ |
| 7 | But I had to search for Vietnam . |
| 8 | It was with deep regret that I had to leave for home later that evening . |
| 9 | I walked in and there were twelve fellas sitting in this room and I had to sing in front of them all . |
| 10 | I had to carry on walking . |
| 11 | ‘ I had to act as decoy . |
| 12 | I had to understudy for Prospero , one year , and still remember large chunks of the beautiful Tempest verse . |
| 13 | I had to scoot round Church Lane |
| 14 | ‘ Sorry to be so long — I had to wait for Tom to finish a phone call . ’ |
| 15 | So I had to wait in suspense . |
| 16 | I had to wait till dawn to see what I was doing , ’ said Peter , of Taunton , Somerset , who suffered minor injuries . |
| 17 | I 'd go crazy if I had to wait until supper . |
| 18 | We had time for a short walk on a rocky path before I had to return to Athens . |
| 19 | I had to be quick , they told me ; it was quite a long climb to the hut where Eric would be waiting and I had to return to Parma that night . |
| 20 | And I had to drive to Mould oh ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I had to call upon Bob 's expertise . |
| 23 | And although I infinitely preferred a walk across the corner of the field to the privy by the duck pond , to the four flights of stairs I had to descend at Reine , with a com-munal Turkish crouch at the end of it , I wondered how Otto would adjust to outside facilities . |
| 24 | I had n't deserted my first love , the Salcombe yawl Lisa , but she lived in my home in South Devon , and now that I was officially attached to Sir Edmund Pusey 's Police Liaison Group at the Home Office I had to live in London , and the Crouch was much more accessible . |
| 25 | And often , after a day 's rehearsal , I had to listen to Shadwell telling the dinner party how well his production of The Jungle Book was going , how ‘ expressionistic ’ it was . |
| 26 | I had to listen to Radio Suffolk this morning and Debenham was a school mentioned to be closed today . |
| 27 | Well I 'm supposed to have Wednesday mornings that was the arrangement , Wednesday then I had to go into hospital |
| 28 | I had to go about north-north-east , and if I hit the coast in the wrong place I could go first one way , then the other , until I came to the shingle where I had left the dinghy . |
| 29 | And then , in the , I think it was the June , I came down to Colchester , and as soon as I got to Colchester the old adjutant nurse said oh you , going for a a B one qualification , and I had to go to Colchester to the Ordnance , it , it , it was an Ordnance workshops I suppose that was what it was . |
| 30 | I volunteered for the Grenadier Guards , well I had to go to Chelsea Barracks and after a week there , they decided that I was n't medically fit for them , although the doctor or the M O at the Ipswich Recruiting Officer said , oh yes , you 're A one you 'll be fine for the guard but cos I was fairly well built , stature wise . |