Example sentences of "and i had [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It was a little bit awkward , because she wanted to spend a long weekend there in July , and I had to sort out the dates with Alex to make sure they did n't clash .
2 How could I tell Fatima with her large , trusting brown eyes that her war had become stale news and I had to move on ?
3 The sniping was increasing and I had to move away to help guard some German prisoners we had collected in the action .
4 I thought I 'd seen something like it before but the woman came over and I had to move away before I could look at it more closely .
5 I lost my flat , and I had to move in with friends .
6 Well I went there and I had to fill in another application and they 've set me up with er another interview at erm Health Centre , and that 's tomorrow .
7 I speak from experience , as my wife and I had to turn back and miss the December 1990 meeting .
8 But if we were doing as we do a lot of jobs like that and I had to go round and estimate every one it would cost me more to go round and estimate than it would to do the jobs .
9 By the time I got into position , my lungs were bursting and I had to go up for air again .
10 But , nevertheless , for me eternity was not now , and I had to go on into the future and in this world .
11 We did ask Dorothy to do it after I did it for four years , but she was n't keen and I had to go on .
12 Suddenly , one of the organisers called my number , I had to take off my socks and shoes as you had to do the jump in bare feet and I had to go over to get weighed again on different scales to make sure I was using the correct cord ( they were very safety conscious about every aspect of the jump ) .
13 Er I , I was a messenger for a time for the er , we lived in Lane and I was a messenger for a time with the erm A R P headquarters in Drive , now when my uncle got married and he had two children and I 'd , they were issuing gas masks and I had to go down and fetch a gas mask for his daughter and they were great big ones that used to envelope the whole babies with a bellows on the side that the mothers used to have to pump when they were in them , thank goodness we never had to use them and erm
14 ‘ We saw it go in , ’ said Lyle , ‘ but we could not find it and I had to go back and play three off the tee . ’
15 We came on a , I think it was on a Friday or Saturday morning and I had to go back Sunday night , cos I was on duty on the Monday back in Plymouth , and I did a month in Plymouth , er , a month or five weeks no longer , and I came up each weekend to see them , my wife was left there then .
16 And I had to go back to Norwich the next morning with a load .
17 I used to have to go back up , after the supper and give her the and I had to go back up and turn London 's Burning on then I used to have to go back up to turn it off
18 Ed and I had to go along with it , of course .
19 But I just used to have this dream , of all these animals , and I had to go in with all these animals , it was actually full , crammed full of animals , that were all out to eat me , and , kill me ,
20 Fortunately they 'd given her the job back at the shoe shop , and she and I had to spend only evenings and weekends together .
21 By some mix-up , my papers did n't seem to be in order and I had to hold on there until the proper American visa came through .
22 But the nurse could n't move it and I had to put up with it .
23 It was a bad moment and I had to put down a swift impulse to rush to the side and throw myself over .
24 And it was rough going , and I had to watch my head and I had to watch where I was putting my feet .
25 He turned left down an alley without indicating and I had to carve up a Volvo with Swedish number plates in order to follow him .
26 There was n't a working shower and I had to clean off my make-up with cold-cream and by splashing water from the sink over myself .
27 We moved in with them , although it meant I had a long journey to the hospital every day and I had to sleep there when I was on call , and we stayed with them until he was nine .
28 Terry and I had to hiss together .
29 Sorry Chief Administrator Officer and I had to provide quite a lot of statistical information which I 'd never done before but nevertheless I , I made a fairly reasonable job of it , I had an assistant and erm I , I think I got fairly well known amongst the councillors and people who mattered and then went .
30 And I had to come out a minute early to pay it back .
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