Example sentences of "[that] i have to " in BNC.

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1 As soon as I set foot in there , I knew that I had to be involved somehow .
2 My mental health has deteriorated to such an extent that I had to be admitted to hospital and am currently on sedation .
3 A fierce aunt shocked me by telling me shyness is a form of rudeness and selfishness , and that I had to be the first to talk to two people .
4 In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this .
5 ‘ Now Bathsheba , ’ he said , laughing , ‘ you know very well that I had to be very careful , as a single man working for you , a good-looking young woman .
6 I was experiencing what he meant ; a new self-acceptance , a sense that I had to be this mind and this body , its vices and its virtues , and that I had no other chance or choice .
7 Ah but I believed if I 'm going to discuss or argue about anything as regarding that I had to be interested in it .
8 ‘ I knew that I had to be the best at everything if I was to haul my family out of the financial trouble they were in .
9 ‘ The variety of work which included anything from milk quotas to mortgage repossessions , meant that I had to be practical and adapt quickly .
10 I also remember , incidentally , the first letter that I had to erm type , a young chap who was erm shortly called up for service in the Army came in and erm dictated a little letter to me to see how erm , how I got on and erm it was a letter to parents in Halesworth whose daughter had just been er transferred to a grammar school and erm in those days of course the , if the distance was more than three miles the Education Committee er provided a cycle and cape and leggings and erm the object of the letter was to find out the child 's inside leg measurement
11 ‘ Generally that I had to be convinced any person posed a risk — and to give a warning before I fired . ’
12 Fortunately it became necessary for me to accompany the well-known Solveig 's Song on a dulcitone , which meant that I had to be close beside her in the wings .
13 Everything which is now taking place confirms that I have to be careful , very careful , even to the extent of disowning some of my earlier work if necessary .
14 I find that I have to be honest with Mary and many others .
15 It is with some reluctance that I have to strongly disagree with one of my fellow presidents , but some of the impressions that her article creates are very misleading and , in some cases , offensive .
16 I ca n't prove anything and I still do n't understand it all , but I know , and I know that I have to be there , have to get to Strathspeld .
17 What it means is that I have to be with him , except when I 'm working , since he ca n't always take time to be with me . ’
18 ‘ I do n't see that I have to ‘ admit ’ anything , ’ she shot back hotly , stung by his words and struggling once again to contain her temper .
19 ‘ I do n't really see that I have to ‘ do ’ anything , ’ Rory averred .
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