Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] had [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin Norris and ‘ Mack ’ Edwards replied for West Meon who had to play the first 40 minutes with only ten men . |
| 2 | To reach his new apartment you had to use the old tradesmen 's entrance : past the service elevator , down four flights of stairs , along a corridor with a linoleum floor . |
| 3 | Susan , once the excitement of Christmas was over , had completely collapsed , and it was Breeze who had to make the final arrangements for selling 9 Dorchester Terrace , and the auctioning of the furniture . |
| 4 | Diane always tried to keep her weekends for spending with Jed , but because of the rain they had to spend the early part of the day in their own below-stairs lounge , watching the Saturday morning cartoons on television . |
| 5 | In order to secure this conviction the trial court itself had to massage the current legal definition of a ‘ disorderly house ’ which hitherto has always involved some element of concurrent multiplicity of parties . |
| 6 | The nouveaux romanciers have used not simply formalist , but explicitly formal realist arguments to explain their departure from traditional narrative structures : the form of the novel itself had to reflect the changing perception of reality as fragmentary and discontinuous . |
| 7 | Was there someone like him ? ‘ … and of course he had to take the greatest possible care . |
| 8 | Every time the car went round a corner you had to turn the whole radio round to face a different way That was the only way you could get half-decent reception . |