Example sentences of "[adv] had [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I literally had to plunge into the abyss and find out what I could about what they were doing to me , or what they wanted me to do . |
| 2 | I only had to deal with a couple of vicious assaults over the telephone when the magazine I was writing for decided he was too dodgy to get involved with and , with mind-boggling nerve , he threatened us with legal action for breach of contract . |
| 3 | They only had to look at the floor of her cockpit to prove that . |
| 4 | Marcus did n't care what Wilson said , you only had to look at the guy . |
| 5 | Gazzer only had to stand in the middle of the towpath and wait as the man approached him . |
| 6 | They only had to wince at the racket for 20 minutes or so . |
| 7 | When I complained , the company said there was a clause on the processing envelope that said if anything went wrong , it only had to pay for the film . |
| 8 | She could n't find one , so had to settle for an orange juice . |
| 9 | They had missed the track the night before so had to sleep in the bush with but one blanket each . |
| 10 | Similar results were reported by Bowers , Neilman , Satz and Altman ( 1978 ) who observed a bilateral but asymmetrical impairment on finger tapping when subjects merely had to listen to a story knowing that they would subsequently be asked to recall its contents . |
| 11 | Grabow and Elliott therefore carried out an experiment similar to that of McAdam and Whitaker and found that movements of the tongue to left or right induced asymmetric scalp potentials which were not observed when subjects merely had to think of a word . |
| 12 | Oh Just had to go to the toilet did n't I ? |
| 13 | We just had to look for the Motor Caravan Construction Code symbol . |
| 14 | Back at her place she offered him a large whisky and then said that she just had to slip into the bedroom to see to a few things . |
| 15 | for the sake of , for the sake of a few bands that we do , I mean most of the bands on the local level are used to playing in pubs so they just had to play on the floor anyway and the rest of it |
| 16 | He just had to get to a table in the restaurant and sit down . |
| 17 | Both she and Patsy still had to sleep in a cot because their father had not bothered as yet to buy them each a proper bed . |
| 18 | Bright , drafted in for his first start following injuries to David Hirst and Paul Warhurst , put them in front , but Trevor Francis 's men still had to settle for a point at Stamford Bridge . |
| 19 | A plumber came and installed a row of six washbasins in the cloakroom with running water , hot and cold at each , though they still had to run across the playground in all weathers to reach the outside lavatories . |
| 20 | The bill , which still had to pass through the state Senate , was likely to be vetoed by Governor James Blanchard . |
| 21 | The most difficult thing I ever had to do in the cinema was to kiss Christopher Reeve . |
| 22 | In the middle of March , Vance made what he later called " one of the most distasteful recommendations I ever had to make to the president . " |
| 23 | Two thirds of these , however , have a range of less than 160 km ; so the weapons could drop on the alliance 's own territory if it ever had to retreat in the face of an attack by the Warsaw Pact . |
| 24 | The House of Lords could only delay and revise legislation , and in our " disguised republic " the constitutional monarch always had to act on the advice of ministers responsible to the Commons . |
| 25 | The skipper of the Lady Hamilton also had to cope with a bird 's nest on his reel halfway through the fight and had to strip off yards of line before he could resume the battle . |
| 26 | During a career that started with junk TV through small film roles to her current stardom , Michelle also had to cope with the breakup of her marriage to Peter Horton , the star of American TV show Thirtysomething , which is now screened in Britain . |
| 27 | However , it also had to act in a way that would not jeopardize its chance of winning the next election . |
| 28 | Whilst projects were delighted when they got pump-priming money they also had to draw on a range of local resources . |
| 29 | The frame also had to harmonise with the mount , as well as draw the eye outwards to give the picture a feeling of solidity . |
| 30 | It was not enough that Phoebe should turn up looking like a manual worker — ( 'But , for God 's sake , Maggie , I am a manual worker' ) — and wearing a button on her overalls which said ‘ This facility is under threat from rate-capping , ’ which made boys on buses make obscene jokes ; she also had to take on the maths teacher . |