Example sentences of "i have [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Do I have to explain every single thing to you !
2 Do I have to use the red one all the time ?
3 I was deter , you see I , I have to set a good example to Neil .
4 Would I have to take a flexi-day to play for England ? … mmm , I wonder ?
5 Do I have to wear a cheap suit and drive a Sierra to get invited .
6 Do I have to have a Compact job ?
7 That 's a I I had to do a little bit of er adaption work on the on the curtain rail put that on .
8 Cos I 've already sussed Jim out anyway cos he said it was on my contract saying I had to do the four hours .
9 I I I had to do the other jobs as I know , but I used to like serving people because I used to like meeting people and sort of study people .
10 I had to heave the old hag out of the house when I got married .
11 If I had to design an attractive luxury car that gave the optimum compromise between performance , space , noise level and fuel economy , it would quite probably resemble the 605 SVi .
12 ‘ Oh , I had to hold a bloody press conference this morning .
13 The next day I had to wear a long Kamiz over my trousers and have a scarf covering my head — can you imagine going to school like that …
14 She fancies herself as another Madonna , so I had to wear a black bra with dungarees over the top — it looked gross .
15 This meant that on special occasions I had to wear a black pleated skirt , white blouse and black beret , with white socks and black shoes and , when the weather was cold , a black cloak .
16 And to show we were serious I had to leave a little reminder . ’
17 So I had to watch an earnest and over-long documentary , first made for one of the vid 's information services , about the ruler of Fraxilly .
18 So I had to act the tortured , self-blaming child , and Eric had to comfort me while my father brooded .
19 My wife and I were very happy ; we had a house outside the town , though I had to spend a great deal of time in Berlin .
20 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 .
21 And I had to spend a whole hour in a meeting not not an hour , two and a half hours in a
22 I had to spend the usual time on the beat , in uniform . ’
23 ‘ So I had to spend the whole morning trying to organise another venue .
24 That is why I had to spend the last half an hour intervening and telephoning both Departments to try to deal with the problem .
25 Nina knows about the lymphoma ; I had to cancel a prearranged lunch at Langans with her as it coincided with my short stay in hospital , and rather than make up an excuse I thought it an opportune time to tell her .
26 I had to cancel a live radio performance and head for Stornoway , home of the Calvinist hits , where the black puddings come in square boxes in case the ministers think they 're too phallic .
27 If I had to give a single criterion of that dubious category , the homosexual sensibility , it would be this connection between perversity and paradox — if only because it suggests why that sensibility does not exist as such .
28 If I had to give the best pen picture I could contrive of Harold Wilson , I would describe him as an immensely intelligent man , rather less — by my standards — than half-educated .
29 I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late .
30 I had to wait a long time shut in .
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