Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] have [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If my financial researches are right I have to say the most likely suspect for that particular activity is Wheeler . ’ |
| 2 | Sorry I had to desert you yesterday . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm sorry I had to deliver it , but there it is . ’ |
| 4 | Ta sorry I had to drag you out here on this weather . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sorry I had to throw old Rex to the wolves back there , ’ he said , without a trace of conviction . |
| 6 | I 'm sorry I had to spring it on you like that . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm only sorry I had to bring you out in it . ’ |
| 8 | the only one who worked full time , they came on Christmas Eve with reluctant , because I said look I 'm sorry but I have to work Christmas Eve lunch time , and they said right we 'll be there at five past one , and I finish at one , there were there at five past one , they finally left two days after Christmas because I said I 'm sorry I have to go back to work today . |
| 9 | Sorry I have to miss the orgy . |
| 10 | I 'm sorry I have to ask you to say who you are before you speak . |
| 11 | I 'm sorry I have to dash off again , but I 'm due at Bartons in thirty minutes . |
| 12 | If Mom is still alive I have to find her . |
| 13 | Erm it has become worse in a way that er we did , I did experience some sort of er , er racial intolerance er with the youth , but the middle-aged and the er m older people were very , very er tolerant I had to ask er when I could n't find my way , ask my way to certain places and er there was an that er the lady just walked by me er with me and she , she said I 'll have to walk with you you ca n't find it . |
| 14 | I used to wear jeans and jackets and shirts but my parents burned them on the same day my dad beat me up , and after that I had to wear saris . |
| 15 | After that I had to stop and check myself . |
| 16 | But it was her last film and after that I had to make do with Jean Simmons in Desirée . |
| 17 | After that I had to share Jacob with Rachel . |
| 18 | I can show you hawthorn , beech , oak , ash , elderberry and sycamore ; after that I have to take a leaf home and look it up in a book . |
| 19 | Now that 's that I have to say is achievable in two weeks just the same . |
| 20 | ‘ With that I have to feed and clothe us , pay rent and bills , and save up for extras , like presents . |
| 21 | After that I have to leave you and get back to Florence . ’ |
| 22 | Ken thought he had got the idea of the play all wrong and I think in that I have to agree with Ken . |
| 23 | So I got up , but I was that s weak I had to sit down again and er the n the nurse that come in she said , You stop there till doctor comes . |
| 24 | ‘ But I got so depressed I had to have it cut short . |
| 25 | It can be quite difficult working at something with needle and yarn with your eyes glued to a diagram but this I had to do . |
| 26 | Teachers found me irresponsible and anti-social , and for this I had to suffer . |
| 27 | ‘ With the peak covering my eyes like this I have to hold my head back to see where I 'm going or I 'd break my neck . ’ |
| 28 | If I 'd have said , By the way at the end of this I have to take your photograph it would 've put you off . |
| 29 | To make it clear I have to adopt the Swiss linguist Saussure 's theory which distinguishes between " langue " and " parole " . |
| 30 | Any entertaining I had to do in London was in the United Services Club . |