Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to explain to poor Isabella that Mr Edgar had refused to write to her . |
| 2 | I was also becoming frustrated with the time I had to spend on commercial projects at BRM . |
| 3 | I had to alternate between different sizes to get the degree of control I wanted . |
| 4 | I 've been going to bed at half past one and I was doing the T M A for two nights , then I 've been doing his V A T for two nights so I 've got to bed really really late and I just and , the thing is , the T M A were all on about my then I just start to relax I had to resort to herbal knockout drops . |
| 5 | When I conducted a " phone-in " on sleep and dreaming on a local radio station a few years ago somebody called in to ask what I had to say about flying dreams . |
| 6 | He said , whereas my mum over there in the corner , he said , if she had a bash I had to listen to bloody Frank Sinatra , would n't I ? |
| 7 | ‘ I told him how I had to go for special lessons and how other kids would sometimes laugh or pick on me . |
| 8 | I mean , I was there er , I left yesterday afternoon , I mean , I had to go in early and we had erm an auction and I helped do that . |
| 9 | I knew Oscar would have preferred a quieter , less raucous venture , on a weekday perhaps , but I had to work on certain days and those days came up during his visit . |
| 10 | This meant I had to get in close . |
| 11 | It was a strange moment , and I had to grapple with conflicting sensations . |
| 12 | I know it is true , because I have to respond to public pressure daily in my job , and that is how issues become prominent and how spending priorities are established . |
| 13 | I 'm grateful , that 's for today , erm my Lord it may sound slightly more erm contentious , but I 'd also ask for certificate for counsel for the thirteenth of August hearing , may I say the reason for that , it 's a matter that has n't come before you , you wo n't know about , it 's this , this reason , because at that period it was n't just the application under twenty eighty or twenty eight , four for delay there was another application er , which was unsuccessful which has n't been proceed today , but cost were also disallowed with more serious reason , I submit that said showed er negligent or that improper conduct , there was a substantial attack mounted , and I can use no other words fairly describe it on the professional conduct of and for that reason my Lord er both cos the seriousness of the allegations , but of course also because of the potential conflict that they acted for themselves and it would of been in situation for us solicitor hence to turn up , er they instructed counsel and my self , and so for that double reason in my believe we should be entitled to at , at first stage , ordinarily I would n't of had a very good run for argument but I , it 's my suspicion my clue recollection , be backed up by those behind me , and indeed by the documents that a substantial attack was mounted and it was in , I have to say in full flight terms , and much hence could n't be said to be unreasonable to deem if necessarily , unusually to send counsel in front of a taxing master , well I wo n't say any more on the point , but that is my suspicion |
| 14 | No , because I thought wicked you know , I 've for Monday I get to bloody fucking lie in bed and then like I have to go to flipping school and bloody give it back . |
| 15 | I have to go to secretarial school , worse luck . |
| 16 | At the risk of attracting an angry postbag from irate readers , I have to confess to considerable misgivings over this piece . |
| 17 | I have to admit to strange feelings of smugness at Eric ****ona not being there . |
| 18 | The aged , respectable leather-bound tomes of the Gould family library look down upon the nasty tale I have to tell with musty distaste . |
| 19 | Keith : ‘ I have to change from clean , sort of arpeggiated sounds , right over to solo sounds , which is a little more diverse than what Bryan has to do . |
| 20 | ‘ I have to play with pain-killing injections and I 'm not able to train except for a short time doing set-pieces on a Friday . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ‘ |
| 22 | She has to look for new friends amongst the ranks of the unattached like herself ; and until she has recovered sufficiently to become interested in organising her social life to the best advantage , her opportunities to continue to enjoy the pleasures of mixed company may be very limited . |
| 23 | Every day she has to dodge between parked cars and buses when she guides children across the road . |
| 24 | Some of the more difficult cases turned up at her office , where she had to cope without professional help . |
| 25 | Soon , one field was not enough , and the request ‘ all in a good cause ’ — spread to Jane 's two other fields , so the horses , most of which did not belong to her , had to be moved to a farm , and she had to cope with angry owners . |
| 26 | Somehow she had to get into grown-up territory . |
| 27 | When you saw that happening you realised you had to go into other things . |
| 28 | So you had to wait for full details of John Major 's new cabinet earlier this year . |
| 29 | You had to travel in straight lines and know in what direction you were going . |
| 30 | Thus for a proper appreciation of the distinction between " slow " and " fast " you have to wait for electromagnetic waves to be introduced , discussed , and digested . |