Example sentences of "and [pers pn] have [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I had to lose a good , good woman before I came to my senses . |
| 2 | Even then one colour ran out and I had to use a substitute on the back , which did n't really matter in the general pattern . |
| 3 | I was co-ordinating operational activities in the Institute , an international project on commodities last year , and I had to visit a number of research institutes in Asia , erm in Africa and in the Americas , where they were conducting studies on the commodities they produced . |
| 4 | ‘ Three of us carried you , and I was one of the three , and I had to tip a jug of water over you next morning to wake you . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ There were a lot of traumatic phone calls between the two of us and I had to do a lot of soul-searching . |
| 6 | With bamboo canes I find the young plants need to be trained to climb , and I had to spend a precious 20 minutes carefully tying in the leader of each plant with raffia . |
| 7 | And I had to spend a whole hour in a meeting not not an hour , two and a half hours in a |
| 8 | And I had to ask a lad stood at front , I said can you ask him to stop at this stop please . |
| 9 | There were only two bedrooms and I had to share a bedroom with David 's mother , a living arrangement that I just was n't used to . |
| 10 | It was rather a squash at my nana 's house because mum , and I had to share a bedroom . |
| 11 | They swarmed in and I had to have a cup that did n't match the saucer . |
| 12 | Anyway I had to photograph the man , I photographed the cow and I had to photograph a background . |
| 13 | My eyes were very bad , and I had to pay a young curate to help me with my work for the church . |
| 14 | I found this one at a big sale in London , and I had to pay a lot of money for it . |
| 15 | Now I was making ten shillings a week , and I had to pay a penny toll every day to come to from office . |
| 16 | To begin with I found it almost too much to take on board , but it was all extremely thought-provoking and I had to make a decision to put my heart into it or not to bother at all ; it would have been pointless just to dip into it now and again . |
| 17 | But I would if I ever got a job and I was working and I had to make a casserole or something . |
| 18 | ‘ After a cross-country pursuit it eventually landed in a tree and I had to organise a rescue . |
| 19 | a right good'un it were , our Arthur give me torch and I had to buy a battery , I paid about three pound odd for this battery |
| 20 | There was fifty and there was five levers and three lifts and I had to get a piece of paper and er make a , when you get one , two , three and then five you could have er three , three , two , one and five , four , three , two , one , you know what I mean ? |
| 21 | And I had to clean them and I had to get a bucket of water and sluice it down with a hard broom and . |
| 22 | And I had to get a box and many a time I 've fallen on my back from that so Cos somebody had moved the boxes I think . |
| 23 | All down there and I had to get a it was that much I had to get a bucket of water , soapy water to scrub it down . |
| 24 | And then he come in to us then and he says to me I 'm bleeding and I had to get a plaster for him and he |
| 25 | She always gets me into an argument and I have to devote a lot of time to the dispute . |
| 26 | As I make my way through my lecture tours overseas I am frequently asked who was the best , and I have to evade a proper answer because each group had its Gibsons , but at different times . |
| 27 | I 'm going to a ball this summer and I have to wear a formal full-length dress . |
| 28 | Well look folks we 'll have to stop now it 's gone eleven and I have to give a lecture Joy , er that was an excellent er summary , well done . |
| 29 | I ca n't wait around to try and engage him in further conversation because my bowels suddenly decide they want to wake up too , and I have to make a dash for the nearest bar and the toilets . |
| 30 | There 's a meeting tomorrow and I have to make a report . |