Example sentences of "[pron] had [to-vb] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 2 | So that was the embarrassment I had to do when we went and saw er , Mr erm I had to say to him , you charge BUPA rates do you ? |
| 3 | Again you just looked at me , and I knew I had to do as you had done , so I stretched out my right hand and touched the bones , which were slightly sticky . |
| 4 | I had to finish because I started trying to make everybody laugh . |
| 5 | I ai n't been to no doctor 's , well I 'm lying I had to go again , I had to like because I 've been getting these here bloody , I must 've had them ten or fifteen year or more and , cos I 'm on these here tablets now for the old stomach like , and that like . |
| 6 | I had to say that I had not . |
| 7 | So I had to presume that they had been specially brought ; had been standing by , hiding somewhere , waiting for me to read the Foulkes pamphlet . |
| 8 | I had to stop and I felt really physically very unwell . |
| 9 | ‘ I had to listen when she started to talk . |
| 10 | ‘ I was saddened that it was felt I had to go but I suppose it was unsurprising , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Petra to me had been listed with the Pyramids , Timbuktu , Venice , Hadrian 's Wall and Troy as places that I had to visit before I died . |
| 12 | When the tent was up , I had to prove that I had been right about the proximity of a village . |
| 13 | But I had to recognise that there have only been a couple of traumas in ten years and the trouble rate is likely to hot up as I move towards 40 . |
| 14 | I HAD to cry when I saw that blind singer Lennie Peters is fighting cancer . |
| 15 | I HAD to laugh when I read recently that a water authority had charged a customer for collecting rain-water , claiming that it belonged to them . |
| 16 | I had to laugh when he rung up Anita from home , he says hello gorgeous it 's me ! |
| 17 | and there be twenty eight shillings a week , that 's all I allowed him and because that was even better than labour money and so the day , they , I had to keep that they stopped all me labour , so cos I had the money you see . |
| 18 | I had to admit that I envied Sam and Nolan . |
| 19 | I had to admit that I 'd never seen Darren look so good . |
| 20 | Sheepishly I had to admit that I did not yet have one . |
| 21 | Well when Margaret suggested er doing a project on French polishing , I had to admit that I did n't really know what French polishing was . |
| 22 | She had to act before he killed her or her child . |
| 23 | She had to decide before she saw her parents again if she should confess all that she 'd been up to . |
| 24 | She was in her bedroom on Saturday morning making a list of the errands and shopping she had to do when she became aware of an excited chattering in the courtyard below her window . |
| 25 | She had to go and she had to go and live with them he could n't get married without . |
| 26 | He looked completely relaxed , and she had to own that she felt a little that way herself . |
| 27 | It had been a long and exhausting day , and she had to admit that she felt as tired as he looked . |
| 28 | Many were still unframed and she had to admit that she loved them . |
| 29 | She had to admit that she found swimming ‘ a bit boring really ’ but there was the possibility of shared recreation . |
| 30 | Nor had she ever seen such a dress on anyone over the age of thirty , but seeing it , she had to admit that it did not even look bizarre : it was a pale purple smock , waistless and bustless , with long , much-buttoned sleeves , and yet it managed to give only the faintest , most delicate air of Bohemia . |