Example sentences of "i have [verb] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Clarice Cliff was a hard taskmistress — I had to report to her every day — but she took great interest in the progress of young trainees and her husband , Colley Shorter , the chairman of her company , arranged for me to take day classes at Newcastle College of Art when I was doing National Service with the RAF stationed in Northumberland , ’ he recounted . |
| 32 | I had written to him in Edinburgh when he was in Belgium , to Belgium when he was in France and to France the very moment he arrived back in Edinburgh . |
| 33 | Remember your moral crime : that you have now lied twice about why I had written to you in the first place ( Letters report , 5 December ) , and you have lied on purpose and you have done so with manifest contempt and disregard for any say or rights that I may have against your sick sense of ‘ editorship ’ . |
| 34 | I had not told my Reed cousins about our wedding , but I had written to my uncle , John Eyre , in Madeira . |
| 35 | I was g I had to talk to your dad when you were n't there felt such a dick . |
| 36 | But I had to talk to you today . ’ |
| 37 | I had hinted to him that I had been engaged on a paper to be called ‘ Enslavement by Capital ’ , a title adapted from one employed by Ezra Pound in a Criterion article called more characteristically , ‘ Murder by Capital ’ . |
| 38 | I had run to my room , my bed , pulled a pillow over my head . |
| 39 | I had to return to my classes in Salamanca . |
| 40 | With this background , as a teacher I saw the subject as a collection of facts and skills that I had to impart to my pupils in a well-defined sequence . |
| 41 | 'A' was what I needed the most , she gave me criticism and took what I had said to her seriously . |
| 42 | For the rest of the night , I could see him pointing at me and telling all the other guests what I had said to him . |
| 43 | Drugs or even more surgery on yet another organ seemed intolerable , and yet I had said to my surgeon , ‘ I am in your hands . ’ |
| 44 | Even when a small boy I had said to my mother : ‘ How can Mary be my auntie ? |
| 45 | Yeah , one look at him and even I had to say to myself the ladies , the poor ladies . |
| 46 | For example , ‘ I ca n't pay you straightaway , ’ I had to say to him . |
| 47 | The person whom I was going to take over the job from said to me at the end of the meeting well what do you think of that meeting and I must admit I the answer and luckily somebody else instructed with some other business and I felt I got off the hook here but in fact that got dealt with very quickly and he came back to me and said well what did you think of the meeting and I had to say to him just one word , was the way I put it . |
| 48 | Yeah he do n't eat too many he likes he like they but he wo n't erm I had to say to him the other night . |
| 49 | So that was the embarrassment I had to do when we went and saw er , Mr erm I had to say to him , you charge BUPA rates do you ? |
| 50 | The place I got , I used to hate going to bed — it was so damp , I had to listen to it dripping off the curtains . |
| 51 | But by the Tuesday night my throat had all dried up and , though I tried to motor on , I had to take to my bed on the Wednesday . |
| 52 | However the one thing that you must never do is to go between a cow and her calf and I made this mistake one morning and I had to take to my heals and run . |
| 53 | ‘ I had to go to her house . ’ |
| 54 | I 've had to go back up in to him , yeah , but I do n't know what happened last night , I do n't know whether he was not quite tired enough , erm , he must of got up as soon as I put him down and started sort of moaning then I went into the girls and I sorted them out he started screaming he did , so I had to go to him in and lay him down and making him lay down |
| 55 | Yeah well I was only in Gwindy for three years , then I went to Lewis Girls because I lived this end of I had to go to I loved Gwindy school . |
| 56 | I had to go to lots of pubs , |
| 57 | ‘ Well I have n't heard the official report because I had to go to my board meeting , but if you ask me , Maggie 's dragon did it . ’ |
| 58 | ‘ I had to play bigger points from the back of the court because I had to be more relaxed because I was worried about what I had done to myself , ’ he said . |
| 59 | By giving me a little he was showing both concern for me and his determination that I should pay materially for what I had done to him . |
| 60 | It was a little different from the age I had given to my employers ! |