Example sentences of "had [to-vb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As in Indonesia , he had to implement this decision with virtually no guidelines . |
| 3 | A couple of the members had to miss this on Sunday as Phil ( Sir Courtney ) had to be taken to the local hospital for stitches in his fingers . |
| 4 | Now she had to wear this metal cage to stop the bones in her neck crumbling . |
| 5 | You had to see this game to believe it . |
| 6 | Which meant that we had to cart this coal from the wharf , take it to the client and put it in his coal house , you see ? |
| 7 | The Library of Congress , for instance , started with the term ‘ Electronic calculating machines ’ but had to modify this , in keeping with later normal usage , to ‘ Computers ’ . |
| 8 | Well it 'd probably be the June or July before I went in for this exam , which they did n't hold very frequently and er then I had to pass this exam and that I could leave school in the August , Bank Holiday . |
| 9 | The brain behind this operation had to know this . |
| 10 | In this one we had n't told you that you had to strip formwork , that you had to er , make the formwork , that you had to fix the steel , you had to know this from your own knowledge . |
| 11 | With a great big cans , you had to fill it with that molasses , and we had to pour this all over the grass and then , shorts , our shorts were cut off breeches you see because then we used to wear them first and we cut off them off to make shorts . |
| 12 | I had to evaluate this stuff and sit on his case because he was always behind with everything . |
| 13 | That there traitor , Mrs Elswick , had to pick this of all days to come and visit . |
| 14 | ‘ I had to buy this to get it . |
| 15 | Again you used to drop it and whoever was what we called on had to fetch this peg back again , put it onto there , and then come and find us again . |
| 16 | Mind you , we had to win this one . |
| 17 | No ifs … buts or maybes the cherry and whites had to win this one and for once luck was on their side … |
| 18 | You know I had to assume this more detached role . |
| 19 | In order to complete his case he had to challenge this deference to a patristic consensus — which he did by observing that the church fathers had taken the motion of the sun for granted because the alternative had not , in that era , been laid before them . |
| 20 | corinder and no more except on occasions with great the bowl never wanted washing , the boys polished , polished them with their spoons till they shone again and when they , when they had to form this operation , which never took very long , the bowl , they would sit staring at the copper with such eager eyes as if they could of devoured a of which it was composed . |
| 21 | However , she had to reassure this woman whom she had never understood but had come to love . |
| 22 | And of course And anyway , we got there , it was alright , and erm I had to fill this tractor , where it was , of course they 're going to make fun of me again , first morning I 'd got to get the tractor ready , and you know them , five gallon five gallon , things can happen at the time , and I have been had been supposed to be to get the hole at the top of the can , and not spill it you see . |
| 23 | You had to leave this till the last . |
| 24 | felt that he had to justify this long |
| 25 | You had to use this sort of thing like find it up in a mess has n't it ? |
| 26 | We humans used the bridge , but of course , Sally had to negotiate this dry Derbyshire creek bed her own way . |
| 27 | But she made up her mind , did n't she , that she had to publish this book under a man 's name ? |
| 28 | Bourke had to do this every time he spoke with Blake up to the time of the escape in October . |
| 29 | She stood looking after him for a moment ; then she dropped on to an upturned box , and bending her head into the folds of flesh under her chin , she asked of herself why she had to do this . |
| 30 | ‘ I had to do this … ’ she said . |