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 . |