Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That evening , in the hall , Mariot entertained them with songs , accompanied by the harp , to their enjoyment ; although Ramsay qualified his rapture by some regret that , there being insufficient room in their ingle-neuk for playing the harp , she had to perform outside it , and he was deprived of the nearness which he found so much to his taste . |
| 2 | After a limited liability company was floated to finance the tour , the New Zealand team set sail knowing they had to perform well and play attractive cricket for the sake of the nervous subscribers back home . |
| 3 | Stefan was very careful not to rehearse any numbers that she and Gesner had to perform together , but she still felt afraid . |
| 4 | Wilson had to trot briskly , to keep up with his wife ; and he trotted responsibly , because there was no doubt that he was proud of his charge — tall and upright as a Grenadier Guard as she was , and issuing instructions in the way that I imagine a Grenadier might , so that when they were at home her voice would sometimes float right up the road and into our garden , ‘ Wilson ! |
| 5 | Anything deeper in its dark interior had to remain there until another member of the family could get it out for her . |
| 6 | Michael was looking over the top of a cliff at them and had to fall over , hanging in mid-air . |
| 7 | Because they had no way of driving out of office the men who ran the executive in their colonies , the colonial assemblies could not assert themselves in the same way as the Westminster Parliament , and had to fall back on using the seventeenth-century approach of saying that there should be redress of grievance before taxes were voted to run the government . |
| 8 | As other departments , such as Visual Effects , joined in the unofficial boycott of Doctor Who ( see Chapter Five ) , Verity Lambert , Mervyn Pinfield and their team had to fall back on ingenuity from their Designers and Directors , plus backing from Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson who both maintained great faith in the prospects of the show . |
| 9 | Hence the study had to fall back on a proxy for measures of ill health — standardised mortality ratios ( SMRs ) or death rates from different diseases standardised by age . |
| 10 | Naturalists had to fall back on their judgement in family grouping ; and some then and since have followed Adanson , a great French contemporary of Linnaeus , in trying to weigh up all characteristics of an organism instead of taking one or a few as crucial . |
| 11 | And er I had to fall back very often just write , I saw Mr follow the horse in in in that that churning power . |
| 12 | I had to fall back on that many time . |
| 13 | But erm if people fell sick , you know , anybody fell sick , well you all , you had to fall in and fill their place . |
| 14 | I still needed money so I had to carry on working the streets . |
| 15 | There were insufficient funds for a third appointment so that Allan Hayhurst had to carry on in an honourary capacity combining once again the offices of Secretary and Treasurer . |
| 16 | It would take about an hour and a half to fix and heat up the oven ; and , of course , once it was started we had to carry on with the job of re-tyring . |
| 17 | For her to love me , I had to carry on with my secret life . |
| 18 | ‘ The bone was sticking out of my arm but I knew I had to carry on . |
| 19 | Er , you know , well of course they were young girls and er , you see and there 's , there was nothing we could do , you see , and , and er , anyway the doctor , as soon as the doctor did come , it was because th the young staff er they had to , they took her away to the mortuary , you see and erm then I , I had to carry on with her work and , and do the best I could and mine as well , you see , but of course er the Manager he appointed another Assistant Manager to go and collect the money which I used to do got it in because I took her times of duty as well and er , you see , and then after that er after several weeks I suppose it was , I do n't know how many because I forget how many , that they appointed me as Manageress and I was in that position for twelve years , you see and |
| 20 | She had to carry along a spare one which belongs to her mum yesterday , in case the one she has had since 1984 became damaged . |
| 21 | This is not the design that was used at TMI , and the National Nuclear Corporation ( NNC ) has the benefit of the considerable experience of Bechtel and Westinghouse in the design and analysis work that the latter had to carry out to meet the NRC 's ‘ post-TMI ’ requirements . |
| 22 | Many of the managers we then spoke with were disenchanted with their roles and felt that it was an increasingly difficult set of tasks they had to carry out . |
| 23 | The little Austers removed a significant amount of the in-flight workload imposed on the Lincoln navigators , however the frequent rain squalls that came over the jungle limited their use and as such the heavy bomber crews had to carry out operations with the required precision in dangerously adverse weather conditions . |
| 24 | When the Michies moved in five years ago , they had to carry out extensive renovations . |
| 25 | A second-hand car which is not safe to be driven on the road ( for example because the brakes are in such a state that they would fail if the driver had to carry out an emergency stop ) is clearly not of merchantable quality , Lee v. York Coach and Marine ( 1977 C.A. ) — unless of course the car was only sold for scrap . |
| 26 | He argued that , to achieve that , one had to carry out policies that would eradicate the poverty , misery and difficulties facing those citizens . |
| 27 | The Census Dissemination Unit also had to carry out quality assurance checks on the data . |
| 28 | In a recent wardship case decided under the old law , Re H ( Minors ) ( Wardship : Sexual Abuse ) [ 1991 ] FLR 416 the Court of Appeal had to carry out just such a balancing exercise when deciding whether to make an interim care order in respect of four children alleged to be at risk of sexual abuse . |
| 29 | She is also claiming compensation because doctors had to carry out a lifesaving hysterectomy . |
| 30 | Mrs Mitchell said the previous occupant would receive a bill for the work if council staff had to carry out repairs . |