Example sentences of "i have [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 14 What number do I have to multiply by seven to make 84 ? |
| 2 | ‘ How much longer do I have to listen to all of this crap ? |
| 3 | she were , she were helping to make tea and , I do n't know how she , how it came , but she said granddad , I thought oh something 's coming now I says what ? , she said if I came to stay with you , she said after Richard 's you know sale , if I came to stay with you for at the weekend shall I have to go in that |
| 4 | shall I have to go in that spare room ? |
| 5 | I why do I have to work with that grid ? |
| 6 | Why do I have to think like that ? he wondered . |
| 7 | ‘ Good grief , why should I have to speak like this ? |
| 8 | Why in heaven 's name did I have to walk into this nightmare ? |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , do n't be rotten , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I 'll go mad if I 'ave to lie on that bed any more today . |
| 10 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 11 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 12 | I had to lie on this bed with an enormous arch over me and be passed very slowly underneath it . |
| 13 | I had to rely on such copies . |
| 14 | I had to guard against any display of triumph . |
| 15 | And that , I I was , my hus , during the time mother was ill , my husband took ill , now this is where authorities do n't give you any back up , instead of sending him to hospital which was fifteen minutes by bus , I could have visited him every day they sent him to the other side of the county which only allowed a visit once a week , and meant I had to leave at twelve o'clock and get home at six ! |
| 16 | I used to do that when I was working and I had to leave at half four , used to do our kids , see when that clock gets to nine waken me I 'm fucking cold out our Ashley said mummy it 's after nine |
| 17 | I had to explain to poor Isabella that Mr Edgar had refused to write to her . |
| 18 | I ought to be on holiday , but I was n't : this was merely a brief interlude before I had to report to that wretched banker and enmesh myself in a host of false relationships in the Ingard office , to try to discover — what ? |
| 19 | I was also becoming frustrated with the time I had to spend on commercial projects at BRM . |
| 20 | It was a joke — I had to cook for 70 people and there were 12 rooms and a pub as well that could seat 100–200 in summer . |
| 21 | I had to alternate between different sizes to get the degree of control I wanted . |
| 22 | I had to wait at most a couple of minutes before Dennis opened the back door , walked across to the garage , unlocked it , swung the door up and stepped inside . |
| 23 | My family and I had to wait for three weeks in Bombay before getting a boat for England , but during that time I was able to do some useful PR work with newspapers and radio . |
| 24 | I had to wait for another performance to see . ’ |
| 25 | So , it 's , alright it 's not a major problem , but that 's the only difficulty with it is it 's not , it 's good having the bus service where you do n't have to pay , right , if you do n't , like I did n't realize the bus went at five past one , and I was all ready to go , and er , it was ten past one , and I thought , oh no , so I had to wait till three o'clock . |
| 26 | ‘ I wanted to run away , to hide , but I had to return to this lonely , meaningless place . ’ |
| 27 | I 've been going to bed at half past one and I was doing the T M A for two nights , then I 've been doing his V A T for two nights so I 've got to bed really really late and I just and , the thing is , the T M A were all on about my then I just start to relax I had to resort to herbal knockout drops . |
| 28 | Sometimes I had to manage on that for a week . |
| 29 | When I conducted a " phone-in " on sleep and dreaming on a local radio station a few years ago somebody called in to ask what I had to say about flying dreams . |
| 30 | I did it all on me own , of course Alan sat here like a bloody idiot , I said you sit there do n't get , he said I thought you were getting a cloth , I burnt all me arm trying to , jumping out , hacking me hair out there so I had to say to this bloke I said well there 's erm justice for you , he said what ? |