Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I adored Bristol and if I had to live anywhere in the world , I would come back and live here .
2 I did not often take part in the passeggiata because soon after school ended I had to go home on the tram , but sometimes a schoolfriend of mine called Wilma used to invite me to stay the night if there was a lot of homework to be done .
3 Josie glanced at the old folding travel alarm that she kept open on the makeup table , and said , ‘ I have to go somewhere for a minute .
4 ‘ I do n't notice you laughing when I have to go away for the night .
5 ‘ A lot of women would n't have the nerve to wear this , possum ( how they wish they 'd had my recipe for stretch-mark ointment ) but I feel I have to thrust ahead at the forefront of fashion .
6 ‘ He got a pen and paper and told me : ‘ I have to reply immediately to the Queen thanking her ’ .
7 ‘ Your place is miles across the city , and I have to come home on the bus every night , so there 'll be no meeting in the evenings . ’
8 Yeah and I have to walk away from the others .
9 It can be very tiring , and she has to adapt constantly to the changing needs of the learner , patient and ward .
10 As such , he or she has to work closely with the creative people and with media : in some agencies this includes the media planning , too .
11 As she did not want to reveal how much Shildon had reported , she had to sit again through the complicated story of the sale of the lease .
12 I 've only met kennel cough once and that was last year , when a dog belonging to a friend caught it after having been boarded out when she had to go away for a few weeks .
13 I had to think of her seeing the copy of my cock on Monday , I had to think of her first thinking , ‘ Golly , what a nut ’ , and then finding she had to stare uncontrollably at the specific image of my cock , boyoing , had to file that image away in a secret file folder where she filed away all my asterisk memos , and that some night working late , she 'd reach her long arms down to that drawer and bring out the asterisk file and go through the pages , asterisk after asterisk , until she found my cock .
14 She had to think only of the next few hours .
15 If you were caught , you had to wait there until the end .
16 ‘ Ah — your wife had to go out , so you had to stay home with the children ? ’
17 In order to do this , however , you have to listen intelligently to the lecturer and think about what he is saying .
18 If you have to go away from the office on official business ES will pay for the cost of travel .
19 The great problem we face is that obviously the authorities in South Africa do n't want the picture to be made , and we 're shooting it in Zimbabwe , where we 've been made very welcome , and erm the difficulties is the creation of South Africa in Zimbabwe , which means you have to go all over the place .
20 They 're shutting the skips down and then anything that you take then you have to take straight to the tip .
21 It is easy enough to set up an objective which really consists of two contradictory objectives : that is to say that to reach one you have to move away from the other ( for example , lowering prices on premium goods , designing a family sports car , designing tyres that do not wear out ) .
22 You have to push hard against the wall to drive the barge forward . ’
23 As one top London restaurant chef said , ‘ you have to stick rigidly to the basics of hygiene and constantly motivate your staff to the highest standard .
24 There 's a time when you have to strike hard at a decisive moment . ’
25 That was only if on that Thur on that Mon Thursday and Friday if you have to stay away on the Wednesday night and the Thursday night then we cover that .
26 More often than not you have to work hard for a few fish .
27 You have to think more as a pro .
28 There was a home opened in Tayside earlier this year — a 90 bed home — and this is flying in the face of what a lot of people have put in a lot of effort arguing with health service that you have to get away from the concept that 80 , 90 , 120 beds is a small unit .
29 As with the Yashica and Minolta AF-SP , the 35mm lens means you have to get close to the action if your photos are to have real impact .
30 You have to look ahead to the time when you leave football , and I wanted to prepare for a life in sport and leisure management , ’ he said .
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