Example sentences of "i had [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE FIRST thing I had to do at the NME was draw a cucumber . |
| 2 | So then er and I had to do with the antique . |
| 3 | Mercifully , I was able to complete all I had to do within a very few days and I wondered whether the Sheikh had put a few words in the right ears . |
| 4 | Afterwards , I had to lie on a bed in a dark room . |
| 5 | One of these blows actually ricked my neck and I had to lie on the floor beneath the table until it was okay to come up again . |
| 6 | I had to lie in the darkness , still as a corpse . |
| 7 | I had to kneel on the floor to reach it and her fingers fastened in my hair . |
| 8 | I had to sleep with the light on . |
| 9 | When I went home in the school holidays I had to sleep on the bed-settee in the ‘ front room ’ . |
| 10 | I had to sleep in a tee-shirt , and when all the spots started popping I was in the worst state of my life . |
| 11 | I had to sleep in a car for two weeks . |
| 12 | I had to sleep in the same room as loads of them on account of we said I was his secretary . ’ |
| 13 | Only after that , and with a few facts from your GP , plus half a page on your stresses during the last five years — I had to overflow onto the back of my page and with a little encouragement could easily have made it a 100,000 words — can you go through the eye of the needle . |
| 14 | One queer I had to slug in the face and jump out of his car . ‘ |
| 15 | and financial circumstances and erm , this was something of course that I had to leave to the people who were working got himself another job . |
| 16 | I did not see the trophy presented this time as I had to leave before the last race . |
| 17 | Irish hockey coach Cees Koppelaar reflects on his team 's failure to qualify for the World Cup and his plans for the future I know there was some criticism when I had to leave before the final inter-provincial game in Dublin last season — that was because of my club commitments in Holland . |
| 18 | I had to fumble for the torch in the dark and work out for myself how to fix my bunk . |
| 19 | They believed I had to report to a camp near Dover . |
| 20 | I had to put on a brave face and try to show him that I was not worried , but when he appeared I was shocked at how much he had changed even in such a short time . |
| 21 | I woke again , I had to put on the light . |
| 22 | I 've got that broken arm , which I had to put in a sling every time . |
| 23 | " I 'm sorry to have kept you waiting , but I had to finish with the man I had with me . |
| 24 | I knew I should not miss that appointment with him and I had to succeed in the match , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Well , what I had to do , I had to swim under the water |
| 26 | The water was deep in the middle , so I had to swim for a few metres . |
| 27 | I had to wait for a considerable time for the expanse of blue sky above my chosen scene ( figure XX ) to be substantial enough for photography . |
| 28 | To prepare this article I had to wait for an event on a day when the visibility was gin-clear to get good photographs from my open cockpit Jodel D9 , using a telephoto lens at various focal lengths to obtain the required framing . |
| 29 | At the same time , while ensuring the blue of sky in front of the camera , I had to wait for the sun to fall on the scene from behind me , otherwise the sparkle of beach and palms would have been lost . |
| 30 | ‘ I had to wait for the right moment to tell Nicola . |