Example sentences of "and [pers pn] have [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 I always knew how much he earned , because he used to give me his pay note and I 'd to go down and collect it .
2 Well I was just tidying myself up , och just a week lick of lipstick and a puffa blusher basically when I noticed that my mascara was on its last legs so I had to remind myself to stop by at Frazers Innoxa counter as any other tearproof bar theirs brings me out in lumps , so to cut a long story short I just nicked in the sidedoor — honest to god I was festooned with carriers laden down like a workhouse donkey — and I 'd to cut through the shoe department .
3 yeah , that 's the core but it needs fleshing out more and a has agreed that you know it 's if you just stuck to the Editor 's Handbook it 's too narrow and it does need , I mean B A I E in London thus far are being extremely helpful if slightly cautious and I 've to go down and talk to the revamped education committee when the revamped education committee gets around to having a meeting
4 Thing is , I 've got my heater right in front of my wardrobe , and I 've to move it so someone 'll open my bloody wardrobe .
5 ‘ There 's poor Archie , he canna dae a han 's turn for himsel' , and I 've to earn every bite o' bread he eats . ’
6 People get confused then they think , Oh when something I 've got to and I 've to read all those messages a lack of rapport really is n't it ?
7 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 .
8 I knew I should not miss that appointment with him and I had to succeed in the match , ’ he said .
9 You had to force your way through the flow of MPs to get to the No lobby and I had to force my way through to get to the No lobby .
10 Then she asked me what I was going to do and I had to say I wanted to go with her .
11 And I had to say , inside myself , that 's awful like the kirk .
12 And I had to say this in front of my mother who had to be present , which was even more degrading .
13 And I had to say yes , because I did n't want to be called a snob too .
14 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 .
15 It was the most exceptional emotional and physical experience of my life , and I had to say something … so I said , Rachel …
16 And I had to say that they 'll do it at Brownies .
17 Cedric had n't changed a bit and I had to battle my way to the broken armchair by the fireside .
18 I was with him , holding the drip inside the bag , and I had to wrench him free and get out before we ran out of air .
19 And I had to lose a good , good woman before I came to my senses .
20 And then , only six hours later , the pains returned and I had to repeat the dose .
21 My master came back , slightly bemused , lost in his own thoughts and I had to repeat two or three times what Mathilda had told me .
22 The kids scattered quickly and Frankie and I had to explain ourselves ; he ignored Liza as usual .
23 As Bernard said , and I had to agree , private nurses with the right technical experience for such a case do n't grow on gooseberry-bushes . ’
24 And I had to agree .
25 and then I had to work with these people and I knew that that was the kind of way that they were operating and I had to teach them by the way I worked but in fact it was okay to admit that we do make mistakes .
26 I was having a nervous breakdown and I had to decide whether I was going to spend the rest of my life hiding under a bed , or whether I was going to do what I wanted to do . ’
27 And I had to decide what I should say …
28 At any rate , when I saw her approaching late at night from the last bus , I would feign sleep and lie rigid in bed , willing my eyes to stay shut , but the sagging weight of Val sitting on the edge of my bed and her heart-rending sighs usually wore me down in the end , and I had to open my eyes and listen .
29 I knitted myself a dress from that which started off fawn , but we ran out of that colour and I had to finish it off in blue .
30 The sniping was increasing and I had to move away to help guard some German prisoners we had collected in the action .
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