Example sentences of "that i had [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was shaking so much that I had to lift the kettle with two hands when I staggered down the yard . |
| 2 | ‘ I decided that I had to put the headmaster in a position to answer and it was this problem that worried me most — more than the outrageous charges against myself and the effect on my family . |
| 3 | Had interview with housing official who stated that I had to transfer the tenancy from my wife 's name to mine and then something would be done within a week . |
| 4 | It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers . |
| 5 | I told an uninterested reception clerk that I had to catch the boat train ( let them look for me in Calais , I thought . |
| 6 | That morning Doreen 's absence meant that I had to make the coffee and take in the biscuits to Mr Hutton . |
| 7 | Back down here I told him that I had to get the sex business cleared up . |