Example sentences of "'ve had to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've had to be very , very careful and say ‘ you ca n't afford it ’ . ’ |
| 2 | I 've had to . ’ |
| 3 | Rocastle said : ‘ I 've had to be patient , but hopefully this can be the start of my Leeds career and a turning point for the club . ’ |
| 4 | You 've had to be strong to survive — just as poor Nora had to be when your father died , and she was left on her own . ’ |
| 5 | Robson , snapped up on a free transfer from West Ham last season , added : ‘ I 've had to be very careful because the trouble was caused by a virus infection . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've had to be stubborn , single-minded and downright selfish in my pursuit of a movie career . |
| 7 | You 've had to be like that all the time , otherwise you feel like you ai n't getting there , they 're getting the better of you , like … ’ cos you listen , do n't you , when you 've had the baby they are supposed to help you and advise you , so you take all their … but then you can only take so much , and you think these must be the mad ones , like . |
| 8 | They ran out of money , and they 've had to be supplemented since to get the job finished . |
| 9 | We 've had to . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've had to be a good liar myself to keep my head above water all this time . |
| 11 | I 've had to , this cupboard 's because it 's got cutlery and the plates and that , so I 've just put a piece of er material over it . |
| 12 | We 've had to . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , if they 're not in your cabinet , they 've had to be thrown away , ’ she said . |
| 14 | Is this the only response we 've had to that article ? |
| 15 | But since I 've had to , and since the old place is so empty , how about it ? |
| 16 | At the moment I 've had to er shall we say adjust certain figures , because in fact er I have n't got the details . |
| 17 | I think it 's true to say that the design responsible company , Deutsch Aerospace erm has discovered that er there 's a lot more software in this system than they had originally imagined and the , their sub contractors of course , they 've had to er write various parts of that for them and erm putting together the four elements of the programme has been a lot more complex than anyone imagined . |
| 18 | Because of course we did put er these proposals , most of these proposals until we 've had to erm at the board meeting er and we did give them full publicity in the Cambridge Evening News a couple of weeks ago . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've had to be very strong through this . |
| 20 | And it was all in a bunch , so I 've had to sort of unhook it . |
| 21 | No need to put out in the , in the garden there , oh we 've had to . |
| 22 | so he said I 've had to , they 'd have to keep him in for ten days or more you know |
| 23 | We 've had to d |
| 24 | I 'm with you yeah , see Sam 's got some learning , when he comes to spellings to me , again I would , I would print yeah , he only scrawled that down last night , he says I 've got some spellings on sports mum , I said do you know any of 'em ? , he said no , I said when 's you test ? , he says Friday , well I got ta book on all sports and then I read it because sports and you think hockey 's one of them , oh yeah , racket , which is spelt wrong I 've had to , I think it 's got a U in , but again I mean sometimes , I mean I 'm a good speller , I do n't know about you , but I look at them sometimes and I have to go and get the dictionary have to check em |
| 25 | And I thought we 've had to Eileen back something before because they 've fought . |
| 26 | Erm the forecast figure is our plan of getting to the end result , which is not the same thing , which is in a way it 's a bit like our overtime hours and some of the areas we said that we would spend X amount of hours in , in two months , we 've had to then change the shape of that and said we 'd have half of X over five months , so our forecast i is being done differently , cos they 've worked out the , the branch forecast quite significantly differently erm Jeremy went through , through most of th briefly most of the means of doing that this morning and it sounds a lot more sensible than what they 've done in the past . |
| 27 | It 's more at the medium-term level that you can talk about the system making sensible adjustments to new circumstances , and indeed , many schools and many Local Education Authorities have simply had to do that , they 've had to erm adjust to much smaller numbers of pupils , correspondingly smaller numbers of teachers , and a much more static situation generally . |
| 28 | I 've had to actually drag it out of you . |