Example sentences of "[adv] had [to-vb] [prep] the [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 | They only had to look at the floor of her cockpit to prove that . |
| 3 | Marcus did n't care what Wilson said , you only had to look at the guy . |
| 4 | Gazzer only had to stand in the middle of the towpath and wait as the man approached him . |
| 5 | They only had to wince at the racket for 20 minutes or so . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They had missed the track the night before so had to sleep in the bush with but one blanket each . |
| 8 | Oh Just had to go to the toilet did n't I ? |
| 9 | We just had to look for the Motor Caravan Construction Code symbol . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The bill , which still had to pass through the state Senate , was likely to be vetoed by Governor James Blanchard . |
| 14 | The most difficult thing I ever had to do in the cinema was to kiss Christopher Reeve . |
| 15 | 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 . " |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The frame also had to harmonise with the mount , as well as draw the eye outwards to give the picture a feeling of solidity . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Most chimp activity takes place at least within sight of the ground , but to film all the stages of a hunt , cameraman Mike Richards ( left ) also had to take to the air . |
| 22 | The gang also had to purchase from the mine shop their tools , wooden halts and hilts ; gunpowder , fuze , dynamite and caps — candles too . |
| 23 | There was one member whose sight was so bad that when she read she not only had to prop a second pair of spectacles on top of the pair already resting on her nose , but also had to stand under the standard lamp almost pressed against the light bulb . |
| 24 | A couple of funny looks later and I realised I also had to head off the perception that I wanted to hire a sex cave for outré rumpy pumpy with a slew of bimbo victims . |
| 25 | They are increased now obviously but erm , you know to put anything on a tuppeny fare then was well a ha'penny which was twenty five percent on terrible , every year we were going for a fare increase and in those days you really had to go through the Traffic Commissioners . |
| 26 | We often had to work through the night to get the stage ready in time , but it was exciting to be in one of the Queen 's palaces at Christmas . |
| 27 | Urquhart almost had to shout above the roar of the traffic sometimes , lunging forward with his umbrella , in a patch of sulphurous light one moment and in shadow the next . |
| 28 | He sometimes had to disappear to the lavatory several times when they met in a pub or café . |
| 29 | But they then had to contend with the response that faith itself might be interpreted as an ‘ inner work ’ , a good deed of the mind . |
| 30 | The Tri-star jet was two hours late on take-off from Heathrow , and then had to abort on the runway at lift-off point due to a sudden failure of one of the engines . |