Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [prep] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Raindrops had to fall on my head for real like everybody else — I do n't really wish to talk about those things , now we are over it . |
| 2 | ‘ I had only returned from a holiday in Dublin and had n't the price of the airline ticket , so I had to borrow from my mum , ’ said Deirdre , who is the mother of a five-year-old daughter , Emma . |
| 3 | The offence was grievous and innocent , I drove the wrong way round a roundabout , which sounds appalling but there was not a single other car in sight to , in a sense to steer by so to speak , erm but there was one policeman , and he stopped me , and he fined me , and I had to search for my purse , which I had well hidden , this being Italy , erm underneath all the bedding and the tents and the cooking pots , found it in due course , presented him very shakily with these thousand lire or whatever it was he wanted , and , and this is really the point , drove off very shakily too . |
| 4 | ‘ Well I have n't heard the official report because I had to go to my board meeting , but if you ask me , Maggie 's dragon did it . ’ |
| 5 | Vic told me I had to suffer for my art . |
| 6 | The next morning I had to give in my notice at the bank — first to the manager at Fontanellato and then , in person , to my boss in Parma . |
| 7 | During the next three and a half years I often thought of this meal and of the amount I had to leave on my plate because I could not eat any more . |
| 8 | Eventually I accepted that I had to leave without my baby . |
| 9 | You see , the impulse behind my concept , my outline , it was personal , it had to do with my life . |
| 10 | The reference to the ‘ friend ’ had to do with my association with the Speech Institute , where I was giving a course of lectures on what the Directress , Miss Marjorie Gullan , liked to call ‘ Modernist Poetry ’ ( for it was still considered that ‘ poetry ’ ended with the Georgians , whom we had all studied at school , and that Pound and Eliot were advanced experimenters ) . |
| 11 | I had to fight through my career against setbacks like major injuries . |
| 12 | ‘ Why I had to plead for my baby 's life ’ |
| 13 | other words I had to get on my bike . |
| 14 | ‘ I had to get to my class . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It got so bad FBI agents had to stay at my house to protect me from religious extremists whipped up by their campaign . ’ |
| 16 | But by the Tuesday night my throat had all dried up and , though I tried to motor on , I had to take to my bed on the Wednesday . |
| 17 | Well my husband had a job here we moved from Highbury in in London because his firm moved from Highbury in London to here and erm got so we had to move with my husband because of his job , you see ? |
| 18 | But two days ago I had to move to my sister 's old bedroom , because some men are mending my bedroom wall , and last night I heard that whistle again ! |
| 19 | ‘ It seemed like it was the hardest decision I ever had to make in my life . |