Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had to perform for them with the spotlight on her and she knew that no trick would be good enough . |
| 2 | This was eventually made doubly plain when each member of my crew took it in turn to brief me on his particular duties , and I in turn had to perform in his position . |
| 3 | So she remained in her place and someone always had to remain with her . |
| 4 | The opening ceremony , set for last May , was cancelled , and local activists had to remain on the original walls while gazing up in wonder at the spectacular treat they were being denied . |
| 5 | Hence the weedkiller train could not be put into the loop and had to remain on the main line , being put right up to the buffer stop because a passenger train was due . |
| 6 | The leaders had their work cut out keeping the group together , and one or both had to remain at the back to motivate the slower ones — the most effective method seemed to be carrying their kit , though this tended to be a last resort . |
| 7 | His right foot had to remain at right angles to his leg . |
| 8 | My baby had to remain at the nursing home , as I had no one to look after him , and he was not admitted into hospital because of whooping-cough in the nursery there . |
| 9 | The newcomers were not able to brush aside the native Carib population with quite the contemptuous ease with which the Spaniards had conquered the mainland ; attempts to settle in earlier years had been resisted successfully and in some islands the English settlers had to remain at least as careful about the risk of native attack as any community in North America . |
| 10 | Trade sanctions had to remain as promoters of environmental protection , he argued . |
| 11 | In Britain the party system made it necessary for there to be an independent corporation , since broadcasting had to remain outside political conflict . |
| 12 | Their clothes were locked away so they had to remain in the dormitory . |
| 13 | Particularly during the French wars , no merchant might be willing to take them , and then they had to remain in Newgate prison . |
| 14 | As an air-raid had just begun they could not leave and had to remain in an ambience where , as they now acutely realised , they were not wanted and did not belong . |
| 15 | We in the borough , we dare not be rough because we had to remain in Ipswich after the strike was over . |
| 16 | In order for the crews to have a chance of completing a tour of thirty operations , losses had to fall below 4% , but on trips to Berlin , Stettin , Magdeburg and Nuremburg — all long-haul destinations — they sometimes touched 10% . |
| 17 | ‘ Raindrops had to fall on my head for real like everybody else — I do n't really wish to talk about those things , now we are over it . |
| 18 | Designated children had to fall within the age ranges 3–4 years or 16–18 years and to have been under the care or formal supervision of the local authority for at least six months . |
| 19 | By then , I had n't got a wireless but she declared that it was an absolutely necessary thing for someone in my situation and brought me a red one , of the kind that worked on batteries thankfully , not the kind you had to carry for miles to be recharged ! |
| 20 | I had to carry on walking . |
| 21 | M. The horrid old man Sinbad had to carry on his back . |
| 22 | We had to carry in in Winter we had the rainwater off the roofs which filled two brick cisterns for the livestock . |
| 23 | Well , I had to ramble about something — the list has been really quiet the last few days . |
| 24 | ‘ My boyfriend had to sit outside his surgery with the door open , calling to me : ‘ It 's all right — I 'm right outside if you need me ’ . ’ |
| 25 | You were allowed up to three visitors at a time and had to sit opposite them at individual tables . |
| 26 | It was during the filming of the opening titles for the last ‘ Marti ’ series for the B.B.C. Dressed in a red chiffon evening gown , high heels and lead-weighted knickers , I had to sit on a rock at the bottom of a tank full of sharks , smiling and brushing my hair , while Duncan swam past with a plywood plaice bearing the immortal words ‘ End of Part One ’ ( it could have been the end of several parts ! ) . |
| 27 | There were a few benches round the edge , but most people had to sit on their small bundles on the floor of the plane . |
| 28 | One of us had to sit on the floor of the phone box while the other stood up and rested on the shelf where you open out the directories . |
| 29 | He said he 'd expire if he had to sit on that high stool much longer . |
| 30 | Had to sit on a — Oh , ’ Fergus said , suddenly realising ‘ You mean the old wacky baccy . ’ |