Example sentences of "i had [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I had to do a scene with an actor playing Big Ears and was thrilled when I was told I 'd got the part , ’ she said . |
2 | Girl 's do n't ‘ do ’ the season any more ; it 's not like it was in the past , ’ said Sophia Burrell , 17 , who confessed to having missed most of the grooming session laid on by Lucie Clayton School of Modelling , ‘ because I had to do a law course ’ . |
3 | I had to do a lot of talking to get out of that one , Folly . |
4 | ‘ There were a lot of traumatic phone calls between the two of us and I had to do a lot of soul-searching . |
5 | I 'm , I think I had to do a days . |
6 | When I emerged I had to borrow a pair of chef 's trousers , ’ he admitted . |
7 | ‘ I had to sacrifice a lot of things in that movie . |
8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
9 | IF I HAD to design a retreat for winter-weary travellers who want familiar hotels but in a different civilisation , I 'd invent Marrakech . |
10 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
11 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
12 | When and I got married I had to wear a size 16 wedding dress . |
13 | I 'd never accept a job where I had to wear a skirt . |
14 | I HAD to report a theft the other day . |
15 | ‘ I had to put a stop to it , ’ he told Mexican television . |
16 | to Mr and Mrs K so , I had to put a note |
17 | For my additional assessment I had to plan a facility for a chosen client group . |
18 | At this point I had to fly and catch him up , so I flew to Khabarovsk in far east Siberia where I had to spend a night . |
19 | I was ready to fulfil the condition of my having the operation : I had to spend a year ‘ passing ’ as a male in stereotypical working-class jobs . |
20 | I had to spend a lot of time alone , just thinking . |
21 | ‘ I had to spend a month in a cast , ’ he recalls , ‘ so when they set the cast , I had them set it so I could move my arm just enough to play . ’ |
22 | ‘ By Donington I went to the start grid knowing I had to finish a race , regardless of my position . |
23 | I was so excited , I had to fax a friend of mine , who is really wrapped up in the Royal Family , saying : ‘ Guess who I met ? ’ |
24 | He took a tentative bite and then started howling again , so I had to open a tin of Whiskas — turkey flavour , full price . |
25 | I felt I had to push a bit harder to get to the answer in the lesson . |
26 | As a result of these negotiations , some of the original proposals had to be modified and , of course , I had to give a guarantee of absolute confidentiality to everyone involved , directly or indirectly , with the research . |
27 | In the pause that followed I had to stifle a feeling of panic . |
28 | On Saint Theresa 's day I had to paint a frieze of watercolour rose petals to run the length of the classroom walls . |
29 | ‘ In the end I ran out of material so I had to use a sketch devised by my son ! |
30 | I had to use a teaspoon . |