Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then a week later my clubs turned up ( all but the woods ) so I changed the claim I had made to insurance company just so if covered the woods the money came very quickly for once . |
| 2 | Will the Minister cast his mind back to the letter that he wrote to me last October — a soothing reply to the representations that I had made to him — pointing out that the Salford careers service , which covers my constituency , had forecast a shortfall of between 400 and 450 YTS places ? |
| 3 | ‘ I had to lie to you about that , to give you the confidence to stand still . ’ |
| 4 | Herbert and I had moved to rooms in a house by the river , in the Temple area . |
| 5 | ‘ I had moved to France with the very firm intention of trying to write a novel ; the other books [ including the bestselling A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence ] got in the way . |
| 6 | I had prayed to Him . |
| 7 | But two days ago I had to move to my sister 's old bedroom , because some men are mending my bedroom wall , and last night I heard that whistle again ! |
| 8 | I had decided to be vague . |
| 9 | Soon it would reach the place where I had turned to the right . |
| 10 | and financial circumstances and erm , this was something of course that I had to leave to the people who were working got himself another job . |
| 11 | I had to explain to poor Isabella that Mr Edgar had refused to write to her . |
| 12 | I know I had to explain to somebody in Chambers the other day something to do with the Corpus that it was n't where was the story there was n't a story |
| 13 | ‘ I was always thinking in The Bangles , I have to be me , but there was this group image I had to conform to , ’ she muses . |
| 14 | ‘ There was this group image I had to conform to , ’ she muses . |
| 15 | They believed I had to report to a camp near Dover . |
| 16 | I ought to be on holiday , but I was n't : this was merely a brief interlude before I had to report to that wretched banker and enmesh myself in a host of false relationships in the Ingard office , to try to discover — what ? |
| 17 | ‘ Clarice Cliff was a hard taskmistress — I had to report to her every day — but she took great interest in the progress of young trainees and her husband , Colley Shorter , the chairman of her company , arranged for me to take day classes at Newcastle College of Art when I was doing National Service with the RAF stationed in Northumberland , ’ he recounted . |
| 18 | In a duty report to my chief constable I mentioned I had written to Police Review . |
| 19 | I had written to Joe Ackerley about Dana , and how we were writing poems together , and he asked to see some examples of this unusual collaboration . |
| 20 | I had written to hundreds of firms asking for material support , and had asked royalty , influential people and famous explorers to lend their names to a list of patrons , but all without success . |
| 21 | I wished that I had written to the two women about Donald 's death , and that I was not now obliged to tell them of it . |
| 22 | Remember your moral crime : that you have now lied twice about why I had written to you in the first place ( Letters report , 5 December ) , and you have lied on purpose and you have done so with manifest contempt and disregard for any say or rights that I may have against your sick sense of ‘ editorship ’ . |
| 23 | I clutched to me the note I had written to Sylvia Grey . |
| 24 | I had not told my Reed cousins about our wedding , but I had written to my uncle , John Eyre , in Madeira . |
| 25 | I had written to the South African Cricket Union asking for his address and , some weeks later and to my great delight , a letter arrived from Geoff Griffin himself ! |
| 26 | Some months earlier I had written to Sir Sidney Barton who , fortunately for me , was still British Minister in Addis Ababa , asking him to obtain the Emperor 's permission for me to follow the Awash river through the Danakil country to discover where and how it ended . |
| 27 | I had written to him in Edinburgh when he was in Belgium , to Belgium when he was in France and to France the very moment he arrived back in Edinburgh . |
| 28 | I had sought to interest some of the more enterprising newspapers , especially as I hoped to be able , if possible , to push on to Abyssinia ; but , in the end , I went in independence , as I have undertaken most excursions , both terrestrial and mental . |
| 29 | So the flooding had not been from the lake — which hitherto I had assumed to be the case ; maybe it had come from the river whose bed , now dried , I had seen from my eminence on the hillside . |
| 30 | The nearest thing I had seen to this were monsoon drains in Malaya : deep , concrete channels meant to take away storm water , but which usually lay like mantraps , just under the flood surface . |