Example sentences of "what i have [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know what I 've to tell the chief when they want strawberries for the house , ’ he protested in embarrassment . |
| 2 | Even though I knew what I had to do , once I got outside Liverpool Street station , I just wandered off aimlessly . |
| 3 | I knew what I had to do . |
| 4 | I did just what I had to do , and never realised that it was my best . |
| 5 | What I had to do was go back to the town centre and … |
| 6 | Maybe if I 'd been able to do some kind of planche , like your painter friend did on your … back , it would have been easy , but what I had to do was first try to get something akin to an erection standing at the copier of a deserted office on a holiday . |
| 7 | Obviously this was what I had to do . |
| 8 | I did what I had to do in Dublin — you 'll never know what I had to do to survive . |
| 9 | I did what I had to do in Dublin — you 'll never know what I had to do to survive . |
| 10 | No no it 's not , he explained to me exactly what I had to do , before he went . |
| 11 | You would n't believe what I had to do to get an introduction to the sisters . |
| 12 | I do not want my grandchildren to do what their grandfather did , or even marginally what I had to do . |
| 13 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 14 | But I did n't really have time or the ability to sit down and think about their whole term 's work which is what I had to do really . |
| 15 | I put up with all their talk , and I did what I had to do according to the state in which the Lord had placed me . |
| 16 | But I knew what I had to do , so I did it . ’ |
| 17 | He asked me what I had to do each week . |
| 18 | Mum , look what I had to do . |
| 19 | So what I had to do |
| 20 | That 's what I had to do this morning |
| 21 | Well , what I had to do , I had to swim under the water |
| 22 | That 's what I had to say about it . |
| 23 | She did n't stop me talking , but neither did she reply or make any comment on what I had to say . |
| 24 | ‘ There were a few kids who came up to meet me and said that they were n't going to vote until they heard what I had to say . ’ |
| 25 | He listened to what I had to say about the procedure still to be gone through and hoped that they would soon hear whether Balbinder had a place . |
| 26 | When I conducted a " phone-in " on sleep and dreaming on a local radio station a few years ago somebody called in to ask what I had to say about flying dreams . |
| 27 | I shall not attempt to repeat what I said then , for repetition makes bores of us all in the House ; I am glad , however , that the scepticism that greeted what I had to say about the benefits of a single European currency has since been replaced by understanding and support in several quarters . |
| 28 | The Aldershot principally because it gave a structure to what I had to say at least went up there fairly confident of what I had . |
| 29 | Poor love , ’ she smiled faintly , ‘ he was half asleep , and at first when he heard what I had to say he thought I was leaving him in the lurch after all . |
| 30 | In fact I sat next to her at a lunch in Abingdon a few years ago , and erm this image one got of her of not being a listener is totally untrue erm every time she turned to me it was to listen to what I had to say . |