Example sentences of "[pron] had to put " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 2 | ‘ I decided that I had to put the headmaster in a position to answer and it was this problem that worried me most — more than the outrageous charges against myself and the effect on my family . |
| 3 | For the next few minutes I had to put up with Sid 's reminiscences about how much worse it had been during the campaign in North Africa . |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't know I had to put it on the meat — ’ |
| 5 | But when Geoff Hamilton handed me a chunk of Barnsdale to turn into a well-planted garden , I had to put my money where my mouth was . |
| 6 | It was a bad moment and I had to put down a swift impulse to rush to the side and throw myself over . |
| 7 | It was still dark , middle-of-the-nightish , but I 'd scribble something — I had to put it in my possession , take away the terror of it , put it under my control . |
| 8 | As happens in any new venture , I discovered that the hours I had to put in at the beginning seemed to outnumber those available in any day . |
| 9 | If I had to put any money on any one at this moment , it would have to be them . |
| 10 | ‘ And if I had to put money on it at the moment then I would back Arsenal to win the title . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I always said that I had to put my medical career before my rugby , but the new job will not force me to retire because my colleagues are so supportive and helpful . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I had to put a stop to it , ’ he told Mexican television . |
| 13 | So then I had to put in for another grant because he 'd smashed every damn thing . |
| 14 | I had to put you to bed . ’ |
| 15 | Because my experience was not of being poor , the discomforts of the poverty that I had to put up with in the rue Victorie did not suggest themselves as unending . |
| 16 | Erm just remembering say I had to put four O Hs with N H , I was sometimes I was getting it right sometimes I was getting it wrong and stuff like that . |
| 17 | But the nurse could n't move it and I had to put up with it . |
| 18 | I 've got that broken arm , which I had to put in a sling every time . |
| 19 | That 's when I had to put these things onto dea er put death certificates into th their the doctor 's certificate into English , erm they were pretty good , t others were n't so g , er you know , were n't so good . |
| 20 | I woke again , I had to put on the light . |
| 21 | I remember once we were going to have a lot more crocuses on the way up the drive , and he said , ‘ Look , you decide what you want and I 'll order them , ’ so I decided what I thought would be good , because I knew I had to put them in . |
| 22 | For my sanity I had to put my foot down , even though my husband , a very conventional Greek , could n't understand why . |
| 23 | ‘ As the full-time mother of pre-school twins , I just thought that I had to put up with Sam 's barely concealed fling with a neighbour , ’ says Tina . |
| 24 | I had to put on a brave face and try to show him that I was not worried , but when he appeared I was shocked at how much he had changed even in such a short time . |
| 25 | We had to catch the man doing something criminal , and so I had to put Sir Henry in danger . |
| 26 | ‘ I mean that , when the client suggested giving our sales force a taste of the product they were selling , I had to put it all together at ultra-short notice — and the only way I managed to get my people to drop everything and come was by stressing how much I relied on each of them individually . |
| 27 | And I had to put it on the seat of my bicycle , push it all the way and it 'd be a good mile from Street to right across from . |
| 28 | Ken said , ‘ I had to put it down while I put the amp into the van . |
| 29 | Benjamin knelt down , bringing the torch closer , and I had to put my hand to my mouth to prevent myself retching . |
| 30 | It was something like four or five days after I finished filming Total Recall with Arnold and I had to put every dime that I had into buying a house . |