Example sentences of "[pron] had do " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that got me into the last three so I had to do it all again at the Barbican which I think was to see if I could fill that theatre with enough presence and vocal range . |
| 2 | Even though I knew what I had to do , once I got outside Liverpool Street station , I just wandered off aimlessly . |
| 3 | All I had to do was ask for directions . |
| 4 | There was one about 1930s radio shows : All I had to do was hear your voice , All at once I knew I had no choice … |
| 5 | Again you just looked at me , and I knew I had to do as you had done , so I stretched out my right hand and touched the bones , which were slightly sticky . |
| 6 | The part was quite easy because all I had to do was stand about and wag my tail . |
| 7 | But I had to do my own asking round before I found a place to visit . |
| 8 | He put himself right before every one of them , and he was so intelligent at the job that all I had to do was to ride him quietly and let him jump without fussing him . ’ |
| 9 | I knew what I had to do . |
| 10 | It was as though playing in the Wendy House was something I had to do before I could settle to weightier matters . |
| 11 | Girl 's do n't ‘ do ’ the season any more ; it 's not like it was in the past , ’ said Sophia Burrell , 17 , who confessed to having missed most of the grooming session laid on by Lucie Clayton School of Modelling , ‘ because I had to do a law course ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ If I had to do it again … |
| 13 | I knew I had to do something or I was going to crack from the fear . |
| 14 | They seemed urgent — I felt I had to do something . |
| 15 | I had to do something about it . |
| 16 | I told him it was easy : all I had to do was quote the people who lived there . |
| 17 | I had to do twenty-three miles tomorrow and then , if I let the lads carry the wheelbarrow into Reggane on Friday , I could run the final seventeen miles . |
| 18 | And so I had to do what I could ; I … |
| 19 | I did just what I had to do , and never realised that it was my best . |
| 20 | K. R. In that time , I had to do all the side streets , milking padlocks . |
| 21 | It lasted three days in court and I had to do night duties and then , finishing between 12 and 2 a.m. , going on nights again , going off early , going to court . |
| 22 | ’ I had to do extra rehearsals because I was new and she would daub my legs with methylated spirits and iodine . |
| 23 | I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure . |
| 24 | I had butterflies in my stomach enough and I had to do something , so I grabbed the nearest paw , which belonged to Merlyn Rees . |
| 25 | However , I did not find the professional ambience all that conducive , but I knew I had to do something with my voice . |
| 26 | Our solicitors had prepared the necessary ‘ instruments ’ , and all Karen and I had to do was ‘ execute ’ them , but when we emerged into the mild sunshine of Beaumont Street twenty minutes later , my life had been changed out of all recognition . |
| 27 | What I had to do was go back to the town centre and … |
| 28 | And I had to do something , too . |
| 29 | All I had to do was to gain confidence in that fact , and abracadabra I would become ‘ normal ’ . |
| 30 | I had to do it all by myself . |