Example sentences of "[noun] and had [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But war was under way again in southern Angola , the team faced obvious difficulties and had to rely on information from the Angolan government . |
| 3 | Still walking east , the party were aware that they were almost at the front line and had to proceed with caution . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |