Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 soldiers at the pub had to perform life saving first aid . |
| 2 | He had to combat Chamberlain 's appeal for loyalty to his own leadership . |
| 3 | Coordinators had to acquire skills in leadership and in handling people and ideas which the majority of them had not developed in their previous jobs . |
| 4 | And therefore in the interim period things had to be you know , you had to treat people fairly in order not to let them be of the belief er that going to er central conference was just an exercise . |
| 5 | That can not be correct , as only those who were actually members of the black races , not Coloureds of mixed race , had to carry passes . |
| 6 | It had to carry conviction with a better educated , more discriminating public . |
| 7 | During the Second World War , tram crews had to carry gas masks and don them during air raids , as this picture shows . |
| 8 | Of course there was the black-out , and that was enforced , and everybody had to carry gas masks . |
| 9 | One little girl only fifteen years old had to carry lead weights to make up ten stones , but when she arrived back on foot after the race had finished , she had lost not only the weights but the horse as well ! |
| 10 | At seven I had to carry ID in case bus drivers attempted to charge me adult fare . |
| 11 | But many of the 14-year-old pupils had to sit tests drawn up by their own teachers who are boycotting the controversial national tests . |
| 12 | But with a sharp rise in the budget deficit and a strongly declining public appetite for loan stock , the government had to issue Treasury bills and Treasury deposit receipts on a scale which pushed liquidity to high levels . |
| 13 | The union achievement in establishing and applying standards for design and safe use of VDUs is more striking when one considers that these policies had already been formulated before the Government Health and Safety Executive had to issue information and advice on the subject . |
| 14 | Whether it was during a healing , or during one of those morning meditations , I ca n't remember , but I had to assure Christopher that although I had stayed to every meditation and seen it through to the end , and although he had brought God , and probably Jesus Christ in upon several occasions , my original It was as intact as it had ever been . |
| 15 | Why have I and many others had to minister encouragement to those who have been discouraged by the psychic ? |
| 16 | Until recently we used to laugh behind our hands at the unfortunate women of the Soviet Union , who had to drive buses , work cranes and perform other heavy duties that have been a man 's prerogative since the beginning of time , due to an acute shortage of labour . |
| 17 | In Tbilisi , the police had to mount guard over the city 's Lenin statue to prevent its uprooting . |
| 18 | He gave warning that centralising the rescue service as planned by the Government , had to affect response time . |
| 19 | He was one of the lucky ones , some had to wait hours , even days , he said . |
| 20 | She had to wait weeks before she could have the floored laid , you know , tiles her floor . |
| 21 | Prior to the tax year which began on Monday , building societies only had to report accounts which paid more than £1,400 with the threshold for National Savings being £250 on investment accounts and £500 on its ordinary account . |
| 22 | Telephone Mr Bennett — Apologise for delay in getting back — I had to confirm holiday arrangements ! . |
| 23 | JOHN MELLENCAMP had to cancel tour dates for the second time in a month when bass player Toby Meyers was injured in a boating accident in Saratoga , New York . |
| 24 | Last month , Mellencamp had to cancel shows in Detroit and Pittsburgh because of physical exhaustion . |
| 25 | On two occasions she had to cancel engagements , on others she looked pale and sickly , acutely aware that she was not helping her husband . |
| 26 | Phone call from our School Nurse to let us know that the School Doctor , who had to cancel medicals because of illness , is out of hospital but will not be back to work for some time . |
| 27 | And of course made it part of the job that you had to attend night school classes for bread baking and confectionery . |
| 28 | He adored her and never once complained in my presence of the fact that he always had to attend shul on his own . |
| 29 | Initially , Wolverton Station children had to attend Stony Stratford School , which according to Stowell-Brown , was of a low standard and the masters even worse ( but Brown was not very complimentary about anyone or anything ) . |
| 30 | Her qualification comes at the end of a two year distance learning course , during which time Irene had to attend Robert Gordon 's University for five days every three months , complete and pass six modules as well as writing a 10,000 word research based dissertation . |