Example sentences of "had [to-vb] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrick had to signal one of the TV cameramen to move back a bit . |
| 2 | Not content with ruining Princess Anne 's week by upstaging her wedding announcement , they had to go one dramatic step further . |
| 3 | ‘ I had to frighten one of them , ’ Hitch lied . |
| 4 | I said it had to come one day , did n't I ? ’ |
| 5 | It was not an easy task for the coalman to make deliveries as he had to lump one hundredweight sacks , right through the house , down three steps , duck to miss the top of the door frame to the scullery , then a mighty heave to deposit coal costing one shilling a hundredweight in the exact spot . |
| 6 | Jones dealt with the dissidents characteristically , by holding a pistol at the ringleader 's head , but his call for volunteers to go ashore produced such a poor response that he had to lead one boat himself , while a marine officer commanded the other . |
| 7 | If I had to choose one man to kick a 40-yard penalty from close to the touchline to rescue The Earth from being knocked out of the Inter-Galactic Cup in the last minute , Grant Fox would be the man … |
| 8 | We have , just in this fact , an argument that if we had to choose one of the two strategies for the indefinite future we would do better to choose pragmatism , because it is so much more adaptive . |
| 9 | Entrants had to pick one of the four sections and develop their design from the abstract ideas that they found there . |
| 10 | If I had to pick one of the midfielders to go there it would be Speed … but I think we would then lose something going forward . |
| 11 | Wales getting to the World Cup ( which I want ) , Speedo playing a blinder , and Silver issuing another great statement about why we had to sell one of our best players ( this time for a bit more I hope ) . |
| 12 | If I had to select one of my pairs of binoculars for observations of nebulæ I think I would choose the × 7 instrument , though I agree that the more powerful binoculars can bring out more details in the fainter nebulæ . |
| 13 | She was sitting there tonight she had to buy one of them bar . |
| 14 | Second , although Ellis and Muller found no difference between their distinctiveness and observation training conditions , there was evidence for a superiority of the distinctiveness group over one given equivalence training in which they had to apply one label to half of the shapes and another label to the rest . |
| 15 | Every twenty Roslavl' inhabitants had also to contribute to the support of one hungry child in the distant south-east , whilst every five peasant households had to help one hungry adult . |
| 16 | Just had to leave because Dad says If you 're not working there for eight and sixpence a week , when you had to leave one job at twelve and six . |
| 17 | You only had to do , you only had to do one or two lines . |
| 18 | Ianthe picked up a bottle in each hand , then had to put one of them down to ring the front door bell . |
| 19 | Erm what you , er what you could manage in the way of repayments what , er er you had to put one third of the full price down . |
| 20 | Yeah you had to put one third of the full price . |
| 21 | So RMC had to send one of its employees , a Mr Stacey , to drive Mr Clewes ' truck , Mr Clewes held a carrier 's licence ( the forerunner of the O licence ) , required by the Road Traffic Act 1960 , but RMC did not . |
| 22 | At this time the villagers had to work a number of days for the Bishop and among their duties , they had to send one man from each household to pick the grapes from his vines . |
| 23 | And they had to send one wagon , because they could n't load it , over to pick up some more |
| 24 | In fact , the four cooking apples should have been five , but our continuing cashflow problems meant I had to disguise one of them as the reserve match ball . |
| 25 | I knew then that , whatever the problems , we just had to film one of these extraordinary meat scrums . |
| 26 | Space , however , was limited and Malc and I and the kids had to share one bedroom and keep praying for a council house of our own . |
| 27 | Practically every Century Hutchinson rep in London had a van full of books , while the Faber reps had to share one van between several territories . |
| 28 | So they had to share one wage between three of them ? |
| 29 | Yeah , well they got they were , they were sharp both ends , they were n't , ai n't got no stern , them paddle they were paddle boats , so there you got one they had a rudder each end so they had to keep one rudder shut and the other one used to steer . |
| 30 | I had to mention one thing then , that if my children came home for Christmas , or for a holiday , or for a little visit , we should all have to squeeze up . |