Example sentences of "[verb] i had to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I found I had to be very firm with her , or she 'd have run rings around me , and how would she learn ? |
| 2 | ‘ I was suffering from a virus and was n't really fit , so all things considered I had to be happy with my performance , ’ he said . |
| 3 | I did n't realize I had to I just filled up |
| 4 | I was told I had to . |
| 5 | Oh w when I first went to place I I had to er I had to clean er clean I had to I was like a scullery maid . |
| 6 | I was 5′ 10½&in in height in bare feet and weighed soaking wet no more than 12½ stone and since I played in the park , usually at open side wing forward , and since I played against genuinely big men , it therefore followed I had to be galvanically quick . |
| 7 | I would have some idiot life in another country because some medieval cleric in Iran decided I had to be killed . ’ |
| 8 | When I started I had to right back to the very beginning and start from three letter words . |
| 9 | I felt I had to I When I went to school m my father could n't afford very much and erm I remember starting the first term of first day of the term with shoes with a big split in it . |
| 10 | I had surreptitiously to do major rewrites three or four weeks before shooting , which was a bit ridiculous , but I felt I had to . |
| 11 | So once I had passed through the obligatory outskirts of post-war , multi-storey housing estates and entered a labyrinth of blackened buildings in canyon-like streets with traffic jammed solid , I knew I had to be somewhere near the town centre . |
| 12 | ‘ I knew I had to be tolerant of any mechanical faults which were bound to surface during the year , ’ he says . |
| 13 | I was about fourteen and , I just knew I had to be a musician . |
| 14 | ‘ It was all sad paranoia , completely in my own head , ’ he continues , ‘ but I really thought I had to be somebody different . |
| 15 | But I I thought I had to sort of do something . |
| 16 | In order to have my clothing coupons replaced I had to be vouched for by a responsible person , and Leslie 's uncle , who was a K.C. and Sheriff-Substitute of Fife and Kinross , kindly did this for me . |
| 17 | ‘ He said I had to , sir , ’ the girl said , and again shook my father 's shoulder . |
| 18 | But Hilary said I had to . |
| 19 | Because we went b I think I was n't er a very well child and the doct when I left school the doctor said I left school at fourteen and he said I had to erm find a job out of doors . |
| 20 | I only came over here because the super said I had to . ’ |
| 21 | anyhow he looked all around and , very nice lad , er and then he came , he said I had to for you |