Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 soldiers at the pub had to perform life saving first aid . |
| 2 | It had to carry conviction with a better educated , more discriminating public . |
| 3 | During the Second World War , tram crews had to carry gas masks and don them during air raids , as this picture shows . |
| 4 | Of course there was the black-out , and that was enforced , and everybody had to carry gas masks . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | At seven I had to carry ID in case bus drivers attempted to charge me adult fare . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Why have I and many others had to minister encouragement to those who have been discouraged by the psychic ? |
| 10 | In Tbilisi , the police had to mount guard over the city 's Lenin statue to prevent its uprooting . |
| 11 | He gave warning that centralising the rescue service as planned by the Government , had to affect response time . |
| 12 | Telephone Mr Bennett — Apologise for delay in getting back — I had to confirm holiday arrangements ! . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And of course made it part of the job that you had to attend night school classes for bread baking and confectionery . |
| 15 | He adored her and never once complained in my presence of the fact that he always had to attend shul on his own . |
| 16 | Christie 's mouth was now quite dry , and he had to gather saliva before he could speak . |
| 17 | He had to meet Martin at four o'clock and he had to kill time till then . |
| 18 | Many had to borrow money , a need that had grown since last year 's replacement of social security single grants for urgent needs or repairs by social fund loans . |
| 19 | So stony that he even had to borrow money from Dad to get home . |
| 20 | In our main survey , people were also asked where they would go for a loan , if they had to borrow money . |
| 21 | At one point , roughly the same point as when they had to borrow money from Andy 's mum , their telephone was cut off , and all business was conducted from a call box in Chiswick High Road . |
| 22 | So poor that he had to borrow money to buy a horse , he found Mehmed II on the road from Istanbul to Edirne and was introduced to the sultan by the vezir Mahmud Papa ( Grand Vezir 858–72/1454–68 and 877–8/1472–3 ) . |
| 23 | This country was bankrupt , and had to borrow money from the United States of America to keep going , and er , Russia had just had a revolution and was still in chaos . |
| 24 | THE winner of the jackpot prize of IR£418,000 in the Republic 's midweek lottery draw had to borrow money to buy an airline ticket to fly to Dublin from London to collect her prize . |
| 25 | Finally run out of money and had to borrow train fare from Chamonix to Geneva . |
| 26 | I had to round Landsend Point , on the south bank of the Crouch , and get into Easter Reach . |
| 27 | Once again Sunderland had to thank goalkeeper Tony Norman for some inspired saves but at first it seemed that he might be the villain of the piece after gifting bottom-of-the-table Brighton an 11th minute lead . |
| 28 | At one point he was almost cut off and , in the pitch black , in the bowels of the earth , he had to swing arm after arm from the overhead girders to stay above the advancing peat . |
| 29 | So we had to arrange transport for women who could not be accompanied to the group . |
| 30 | He had to wear finger and leg splints for several hours . |