Example sentences of "[pron] i had to do " in BNC.
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1 | I I I had to do the other jobs as I know , but I used to like serving people because I used to like meeting people and sort of study people . |
2 | That 's a I I had to do a little bit of er adaption work on the on the curtain rail put that on . |
3 | So you had to choose that er , you have to do that and the fifth thing that I wrote down here which I had to do , a sequence er , of work . |
4 | Actually the last time I was stood up on a platform and did this was in front of erm a S G T congress in Dieppe and I tell you I had to do it in French , and it was much more difficult so I 'm hoping this one will go smoothly , but I , what I 'd really like to do is begin with is offer you erm delegates and platform both , a very very warm welcome from the trade union movement in Portsmouth . |
5 | It was as though playing in the Wendy House was something I had to do before I could settle to weightier matters . |
6 | ‘ I suppose it 's because joining up was something I had to do . |
7 | Even though I knew what I had to do , once I got outside Liverpool Street station , I just wandered off aimlessly . |
8 | I knew what I had to do . |
9 | I did just what I had to do , and never realised that it was my best . |
10 | What I had to do was go back to the town centre and … |
11 | Maybe if I 'd been able to do some kind of planche , like your painter friend did on your … back , it would have been easy , but what I had to do was first try to get something akin to an erection standing at the copier of a deserted office on a holiday . |
12 | Obviously this was what I had to do . |
13 | I did what I had to do in Dublin — you 'll never know what I had to do to survive . |
14 | I did what I had to do in Dublin — you 'll never know what I had to do to survive . |
15 | No no it 's not , he explained to me exactly what I had to do , before he went . |
16 | You would n't believe what I had to do to get an introduction to the sisters . |
17 | I do not want my grandchildren to do what their grandfather did , or even marginally what I had to do . |
18 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
19 | But I did n't really have time or the ability to sit down and think about their whole term 's work which is what I had to do really . |
20 | I put up with all their talk , and I did what I had to do according to the state in which the Lord had placed me . |
21 | But I knew what I had to do , so I did it . ’ |
22 | He asked me what I had to do each week . |
23 | Mum , look what I had to do . |
24 | So what I had to do |
25 | That 's what I had to do this morning |
26 | Well , what I had to do , I had to swim under the water |