Example sentences of "had [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company collapsed , the ITA had to re-advertise the contract in July 1955 , and the ABPC film company , one-third owned by the American Warner Brothers , was persuaded firmly to accept it the very day before ITV started in London . |
| 2 | Because the sets were completely different , the Theatre Royal having a much taller stage , White had to restage the movements during the two-week break . |
| 3 | In England , possibly as a result of the Continental view , rumours arose that the Great Fire occurred as a result of acts by ‘ papists ’ and the King ( who had married Catherine , the daughter of the King of Portugal in 1662 ) had to combat the ugly anti-Catholic mood of Londoners and Parliament , particularly when another rumour arose of a plot to overthrow him for his Roman Catholic brother , the Duke of York . |
| 4 | Despite any explanations he might offer her , he had to remain the enemy . |
| 5 | In his judgment , Mr Justice Knox suggested that the practice was based on an incorrect interpretation of the law , and that the company disposing of the old asset also had to acquire the new asset . |
| 6 | This approach ignores the fact that the taxpayer first had to acquire the right to grant sub-licenses . |
| 7 | This was precisely the position in the case , referred to earlier , of Varley v. Whipp , where at the time of the contract the seller still had to acquire the second-hand reaping machine which he was agreeing to sell . |
| 8 | TWO TURKS who sold kidneys for transplants in London were in so much pain when they were discharged that one had to carry the other out of the hospital , the General Medical Council 's disciplinary committee heard yesterday . |
| 9 | Mr Coskun Yenici , aged 28 , who sold his kidney for £3,000 to finance medical treatment for his father , had to carry the other donor , Mrs Hatice Anutkan , out of the Wellington Humana hospital after the surgery last November . |
| 10 | Only I had to carry the can for it . |
| 11 | It was n't their fault , usually , that the firm was doing badly , but they had to carry the can . |
| 12 | The engine room , the Cabinet-committee structure , may have seriously under-performed in the six-month build-up to the Argentine invasion of the Falklands , but its command post , the full Cabinet , according to one senior minister not of the Thatcherite persuasion , performed its classic function once the crisis had broken : ‘ She had to carry the Cabinet on every major decision ’ , he said . |
| 13 | Chapman continued with his industrial work , but he had to carry the stigma of the commission 's verdict . |
| 14 | Like when I had to carry the garbage out — because of my bad back , the girls helped me with my duty and it was all right with the counsellors because of my back — it was n't special treatment . |
| 15 | He had explained to Milton and Pooley that he had to carry the body of members with him . |
| 16 | I mean th th th th they were on the way to military security , but were they going , they , they , they recognized they had to carry the population with them . |
| 17 | Grand Met maintains it had to issue the leases after a Monopolies and Mergers Commission report which said the six big brewers could not own more than 2,000 pubs . |
| 18 | They could forgive this young man , just as we had to forgive the man who failed to secure his trailer , or they could allow bitterness to completely neutralise everything God was doing in their lives . |
| 19 | We then had to drive the machine back and unload the rented van . |
| 20 | Because she had to drive the RFFS vehicle , the crash crew person had to don the protective clothing after arriving at the scene . |
| 21 | Stephen tied it up but the string broke and he had to drive the car into Hilderbridge very slowly and carefully so as not to overheat the engine . |
| 22 | Crawford had to drive the car into the pool , unlock his seat belt , put the gear into neutral , work four pedals that released oxygen tanks — to slow down the sinking-speak twelve lines of dialogue as the water bubbled up around his chin , somersault underwater so that , after total submersion , his kicking legs appeared first , then escape . |
| 23 | Some indications of future policy moves , however , were to be seen in the increasingly tight controls on capital spending including the introduction of Housing Investment Plans ( HIPs ) which meant that individual councils had to agree the pattern of their housing capital spending with the Department of the Environment . |
| 24 | They had to breach the walls at close quarters and then scale them , using ladders and fighting-towers . |
| 25 | He had to breach the Control Centre in TOP and break through the Outer Wall . |
| 26 | One patient receiving cyclosporin had severe nausea and vomiting and had to discontinue the study after one year . |
| 27 | The rival , splinter organization which emerged as a result , the Imperial Maritime League ( IML ) , claimed that any serious Navalist had to support the Conservatives , irrespective of the fact that individual Liberal candidates were ‘ sound ’ on naval questions , on the grounds that collectively the Liberals were against and the Conservatives in favour of a big Navy . |
| 28 | Some insisted that the reforms were naturally problematic and they had to support the Party in its efforts to modernise China . |
| 29 | When his father died in 1846 he had to support the family , but his career took on a dramatic new turn when he was asked to undertake a contract to build a bridge over the River Severn near his home . |
| 30 | ‘ Another truck had to mount the verge to get by — and Sir John came out shouting . |