Example sentences of "[conj] i have to " in BNC.
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| 1 | To come somewhere like this would have been better , somewhere where I had to be in at a certain time , where I could n't have certain people come in . |
| 2 | Where I have to be . |
| 3 | As soon as I set foot in there , I knew that I had to be involved somehow . |
| 4 | My mental health has deteriorated to such an extent that I had to be admitted to hospital and am currently on sedation . |
| 5 | A fierce aunt shocked me by telling me shyness is a form of rudeness and selfishness , and that I had to be the first to talk to two people . |
| 6 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 7 | ‘ Now Bathsheba , ’ he said , laughing , ‘ you know very well that I had to be very careful , as a single man working for you , a good-looking young woman . |
| 8 | I was experiencing what he meant ; a new self-acceptance , a sense that I had to be this mind and this body , its vices and its virtues , and that I had no other chance or choice . |
| 9 | Ah but I believed if I 'm going to discuss or argue about anything as regarding that I had to be interested in it . |
| 10 | ‘ I knew that I had to be the best at everything if I was to haul my family out of the financial trouble they were in . |
| 11 | ‘ The variety of work which included anything from milk quotas to mortgage repossessions , meant that I had to be practical and adapt quickly . |
| 12 | I also remember , incidentally , the first letter that I had to erm type , a young chap who was erm shortly called up for service in the Army came in and erm dictated a little letter to me to see how erm , how I got on and erm it was a letter to parents in Halesworth whose daughter had just been er transferred to a grammar school and erm in those days of course the , if the distance was more than three miles the Education Committee er provided a cycle and cape and leggings and erm the object of the letter was to find out the child 's inside leg measurement |
| 13 | ‘ Generally that I had to be convinced any person posed a risk — and to give a warning before I fired . ’ |
| 14 | Fortunately it became necessary for me to accompany the well-known Solveig 's Song on a dulcitone , which meant that I had to be close beside her in the wings . |
| 15 | Everything which is now taking place confirms that I have to be careful , very careful , even to the extent of disowning some of my earlier work if necessary . |
| 16 | I find that I have to be honest with Mary and many others . |
| 17 | It is with some reluctance that I have to strongly disagree with one of my fellow presidents , but some of the impressions that her article creates are very misleading and , in some cases , offensive . |
| 18 | I ca n't prove anything and I still do n't understand it all , but I know , and I know that I have to be there , have to get to Strathspeld . |
| 19 | What it means is that I have to be with him , except when I 'm working , since he ca n't always take time to be with me . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't see that I have to ‘ admit ’ anything , ’ she shot back hotly , stung by his words and struggling once again to contain her temper . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't really see that I have to ‘ do ’ anything , ’ Rory averred . |
| 22 | I was confused by all these solicitous questions , and found myself telling more lies than I had to . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm tired , yes , but I was n't prepared to leave you labouring under your misapprehensions any longer than I had to … ’ |
| 24 | Two hours later I am mentioning to Tony that I have been to Tromsø airport more times than I have to Gatwick . |
| 25 | ‘ More than I have to anyone else . |
| 26 | But I 'm not remaining in your debt one second longer than I have to . |
| 27 | But I 'll tell you this , ’ she glared at him , her heart pounding , ‘ I 'd rather work around the clock to get the money back to my father in time than spend one minute longer than I have to with a selfish , bad-tempered misery who was obviously born an expert at everything . ’ |
| 28 | I 've no intention of staying over there longer than I have to , and Sorrel 's away for the weekend herself . ’ |
| 29 | I mean I do n't want to enhance the cost of that any more than I have to . |
| 30 | If the race had been over 62 metres then I felt I would have won , but there are no championships at this distance so I had to be content with second place . |