Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] had [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Lastly , Medeva had to secure a stream of new products which , as a small company , it could not do through research but had to do by acquisition and development .
2 In these years the Unitarians were forced out of the Dissenting Deputies and had to fight for control of their chapel property against other dissenters ; tensions and fractures recurrently emerged within the Society of Friends .
3 But war was under way again in southern Angola , the team faced obvious difficulties and had to rely on information from the Angolan government .
4 Derwentside 's Laura Jackson was selected for the girls ' 14–16 years 100m freestyle but had to withdraw through injury .
5 Still walking east , the party were aware that they were almost at the front line and had to proceed with caution .
6 I fell asleep on the Circle Line and had to retrack from South Kensington to Victoria , curled up in a corner seat in the warm tube .
7 If Lancaster , with its castle and harbour , could have been garrisoned for James it could have provided a connecting link with France , but Forster could not spare the men and had to press on south , through wretched weather and along increasingly miry roads .
8 But the law reports are a random collection of cases , and the very fact that each of those cases resulted from a dispute which the parties could not settle by agreement and had to take to court may make them an unrepresentative sample of the applications of the procedure .
9 But Wohlfarth had expended all his torpedoes and had to watch in anguish as the huge aircraft carrier , without a protective destroyer screen , slid past him .
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