Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had to perform unclean and degrading tasks such as the disposal of dead animals . |
| 2 | Doris and the editor auditioned dancers who had to perform physical exercises along with acrobatic dancing . |
| 3 | Although from her upbringing it might have been thought that ‘ visiting the sick ’ would be a part of her daily life she had hardly ever — thanks to the Welfare State — had to perform this duty , and then only with her mother or father . |
| 4 | But with Jack a hunted man , she had to remain strong , certain . |
| 5 | No doubt their slowness , coupled with the initial inertia of the judges , meant that the exhibition had to remain intact , seriously hampering preparations for the exhibition of models for the Wellington monument which began to arrive at the hall the day after the Government Offices exhibition closed . |
| 6 | But the open-door policy had to remain intact , thus overseas trading and business partners like Japan could not be unduly offended . |
| 7 | Most backbenchers probably appreciated the force of the argument which at that stage had to remain unspoken ’ … we were not ready [ for a General Strike ] , ’ he subsequently told G. M. Young . |
| 8 | Yet she had to remain civil . |
| 9 | How could anyone say that , in those circumstances , they had to remain secret ? |
| 10 | Arguments turn on whether the whole chamber had to remain molten , and , if this was the case , on the plausibility of supplying an appropriate heat flux to offset cooling . |
| 11 | Thus up to the end of World War II ( when the public sector marriage bar was abolished and young women retained paid jobs on marriage ) , in order to qualify for an occupational pension in old age derived from her own earnings a woman usually had to remain unmarried . |
| 12 | I remember him saying that the person in the anecdote had to remain anonymous since it was still not done for a woman to confess she enjoyed promiscuous , recreational sex . |
| 13 | In May 1947 the Joint Chiefs , while acknowledging that planning had to remain flexible , observed that " it appears at the present time that initial establishment of Allied forces in the Middle East is the most promising course of action " . |
| 14 | We saw a few small birds flitting away from the roadside , but for the moment these had to remain unidentified ‘ little brown jobs ’ . |
| 15 | The change involved the production of a protective ‘ skin ’ to ensure that water loss to the atmosphere was not excessive , and the stems had to acquire sufficient rigidity to stand up without the support of surrounding water , but also the cellular structure had to allow the passage of nutrients to the growing shoots ( ultimately , a vascular system ) . |
| 16 | Well the point was you see , we had a dumb hopper , the dumb hopper was towed by an old tug , they had to tow that dumb hopper to sea , what was called dumb cos they ai n't got no engines and so that was towed to sea and then course the er the dumb hopper ha had four winches , hand winches and then they , cos they had the chains on the but the steam hopper |
| 17 | One got the impression that Mr Callaghan felt that he had to put on one side the normal practice of consulting only a small group of inner ministers on economic issues , and had to carry all the colleagues , all twenty-two , if he was to have a hope of carrying the party in the country clearly out of the crisis . |
| 18 | But in Summer those were dry we had to carry all the water then . |
| 19 | I had to carry hot water for washing to every room . ’ |
| 20 | And er we the tea the class All the boys It were all boys er we we had to carry Each carry a chair up to the new school . |
| 21 | Their punishment was that they were to walk bare foot behind the procession on the following Sunday , but instead of one taper they had to carry four tapers ( value 2d ) and there they should offer two at the High Altar , and two at the Altar of St. John . |
| 22 | Transport was scarce and we had to carry special identity cards when we moved from our own villages . |
| 23 | It had to carry enough fuel for over 20 hours airborne . |
| 24 | I had to sit next to a monstrously fat man . |
| 25 | The abolition of Pomgol was greeted with so many protests from the affected areas of Russia that Kalinin had to issue two statements in which he tried to show the stricken population that it had not been abandoned by the government . |
| 26 | In the 1820s the vestry at Christchurch , Spitalfields , had to issue general instructions against the use of the single case in their vaults , advocating the triple case in all instances . |
| 27 | That was the authority that caused so much scandal as a result of the compulsory competitive tendering legislation with such iniquitous dealings in the management buy-outs of the school meals service that the Audit Commission had to issue special guidelines for all future cases . |
| 28 | Alisa Morrant realised that she had to target new mothers — it would be too late by the time the children attended the dentist for fillings . |
| 29 | You had to drive leftish to position yourself far enough down the fairway to get a pitch into the green . |
| 30 | James and Pauline MacGregor of Mulbarton , Norfolk , had to drive 180 miles from Auxerre to Lyon before being freed unharmed . |