Example sentences of "[noun pl] i have [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | three or four times I had to speak to him last night , and you never said a word , you just pretended or said you did n't hear |
| 2 | other words I had to get on my bike . |
| 3 | From a perspective in anthropology where social systems were all equally valid , I teased her about cultural police rigidities which caused this rejection of the alternative views she was being asked to examine , to the point where she refused to lunch with me in the Students ' Union , because , ‘ you 're one of those bloody communists I have to listen to ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've got rather a big order , ’ she said , ‘ mostly for slippers but one or two pairs of shoes I have to make in French calf . ‘ |
| 5 | ‘ Besides , as I told you , ’ she elaborated a little stiffly , ‘ in such matters I have to think of Emily . ’ |
| 6 | I wo n't even agree to having you partnering me at all these functions I have to attend as part of the job — and I 'll take whatever trouble you try to make for me — if you carry on treating me as you have been doing . |
| 7 | ‘ As you 'll see , it 's a great pile of belongings I have to carry with me , and the hare can travel easier inside than outside us . ’ |
| 8 | one or two pieces I had to deal with , or bring home with me . |
| 9 | ‘ One of the first things I had to learn by heart when I went to Maythorpe House was a poem by an Englishman , Laurence Binyon . |
| 10 | In the meantime , there are things I have to say to you . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't , but there are things I have to do at home . ’ |
| 12 | There are things I have to do ; things I have to think about , Holy Father , Father Tom , things that are occupying my mind and I ca n't give you time for these things , these words , Father Tom , Your Holiness . ’ |
| 13 | The bank I pay cos there 's two or three different things I have to pay to the bank which they insist if you have a development loan you have to have this and you have to have that and that comes |
| 14 | The problems I have to resolve under this heading are not made any easier by uncertainty , even in the short term future , as to who will be doing the caring and at what stages changes to the present regime will take place . |
| 15 | Have you any idea how many thousands of pounds I have to pay in employer contributions each month for my employees — out of a small business with a small profit ? |
| 16 | And although I infinitely preferred a walk across the corner of the field to the privy by the duck pond , to the four flights of stairs I had to descend at Reine , with a com-munal Turkish crouch at the end of it , I wondered how Otto would adjust to outside facilities . |
| 17 | When I went home in the school holidays I had to sleep on the bed-settee in the ‘ front room ’ . |
| 18 | If I wanted to check the football results I had to go across the road to read Mrs Stewart 's Sunday Pictorial . |
| 19 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 20 | It 's like when I was a kid and when everybody else in the grammar school got school dinners I had to queue outside the headmaster 's office every morning for me free dinner ticket . ’ |
| 21 | Now I think that the concern that erm I have , and it 's shared by colleagues I have to say at both County and at er District Council level , is that none of those will really fully provide a proper strategic planning service and therefore the , the , the threat to proper forward planning of a coordinated nature across a wider area of land such as is er currently taking place in Sussex , West Sussex and other counties and which is desperately needed as we 've seen in the context of the flooding that we 've just been talking about , that is in er great danger of being undermined and the alternatives that the government is , is putting forward would in my view not go anywhere at all towards meeting the needs of strategic planning . |