Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] had [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the early fifteenth century the Exchequer had become so overcommitted that creditors had to queue for payment , and a creditor 's place in the queue was determined as much as anything by political favour . |
| 2 | That meant that Macedon had to flirt from time to time with Sparta or whoever looked the strongest counterweight to Athens after Persia had recoiled from the Aegean in the mid-fifth century . |
| 3 | Post-war credits are extra tax that people had to pay in addition to their income tax between April 1941 and April 1946 . |
| 4 | This led the government , in the words of one senior manager , repeatedly to ‘ move the goalposts ’ , in other words to change the criteria that BR had to meet for electrification schemes to be approved . |
| 5 | But an assumption that Ptolemy had to make in order to predict these positions correctly was that the moon followed a path that sometimes brought it twice as close to the earth as at other times . |
| 6 | Moreover , if employers had to bargain with trade unions their preference was for multi-employer bargaining at regional or industry level instead of engaging in direct enterprise dealings . |
| 7 | IF DODGE City and Tombstone had to wait for movie star-type heroes to save them from the outlaws who were over-running the communities , would they stand by the lawmen if it looked like the bad guys were n't going to stay beat ? |
| 8 | There were two GIs in charge — the driver and a sentry guard — and Eric had to sit on top of a pile of waterproof mailbags . |
| 9 | Yet while Iago had to start from scratch , foment hatred , poison sight , and invert reality to set his chosen enemies against each other , all that Goneril and Regan have to do to get a third of Britain is to make the kind of noises Lear expects to hear ; indeed , since Cordelia wo n't flatter , they get her part too , and even her coronet as an unlooked-for bonus , Lear 's only ‘ free gift ’ , to use the language of modern advertising promotions ( ‘ This coronet part between you ’ ( King Lear , 1 . |
| 10 | WHILE Terry had to stop at home , brother John soaked up the Spanish sunshine in a luxury holiday home on loan from an old friend . |
| 11 | The huge Gothic cathedral took 600 years to finish ( this was before builders had to worry about penalty clauses ) , and the museum next door has a 3rd century Roman mosaic floor . |
| 12 | When Elsie had to retire for health reasons , we were once again without a teacher but Hilda Lodge and Eleanor Pitman helped out and then Joan Gatfield , a leader in training , decided to do some training with us . |
| 13 | He needed to mobilize all his resources in order to control his diocese , much as kings had to do in order to rule their kingdoms . |