Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] had [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well we went on a course , for a week up Newcastle and of course er erm we had to be there for nine o'clock so we had to catch the bus , at the latest half past eight so you 're up at you 're up at seven and you get showered and what have you cos there 's a shower in the be bedroom get yourself all ready so you 're down by about erm half seven , quarter to eight , like so you tend to think quarter of an hour to the erm bus stop which is right outside the door of the hotel we were getting so and we use the bus rather than take the car in daily , cos it 's easier so I and er and of course I sat down and had a breakfast and I thoroughly enjo , I did n't have any cereals you know , I says well er and I had a little bit of orange orange juice , but it was this erm made up orange juice |
| 2 | Firstly , nobody , but nobody would want to levy charges until it was a last resort , but if the alternative to levying those charges were perhaps that we had to cut the staffing levels in those adult training centres , then you get a different answer to the question , and I had a meeting about four weeks ago with the heads of some of our centres who 've been asking parents and carers that question . |
| 3 | And dear old Sambo had provided more amusement by purloining the turkey , so that they had to eat the bread-sauce and chestnut stuffing without their raison d'être ! |
| 4 | So that he had to get a job elsewhere — somewhere much better , ’ said Pickerage . |
| 5 | Then there was some talk of placing portions in various magazines , so that you had to buy the lot in order to read the book . |
| 6 | He once lost £80,000 when a tour of Japan was cancelled suddenly and he had to pay the cost of transporting the show 's equipment back to Britain out of his own pocket . |
| 7 | They swarmed in and I had to have a cup that did n't match the saucer . |
| 8 | And she passed with flying colours She 's been driving for years apparently but she had to take a test . |
| 9 | He said the Government had failed to understand the depth of feeling amongst unionists , especially as they had to share the council chamber with Sinn Fein . |
| 10 | He wrote out all the lyrics phonetically , so when he had to sing an Italian word , it was written down exactly as it should be pronounced . |
| 11 | For fear of losing one or two sales of its obsolete mainframes , IBM designed the RT so badly that it had to junk the machine completely and start again from scratch to create the ( incompatible ) RS/6000 . |
| 12 | The Collector 's hands trembled so badly that he had to rest the telescope on the shattered window sill . |
| 13 | ‘ Not if I had to face a helicopter journey every time I wanted to come into town , ’ he drawled , and then slowly lowered his gaze to her red mouth , murmuring , ‘ So … do you want to see the bedrooms ? ’ |
| 14 | T. B. You had to see what they were passing through and you had to have a chit and you had to time this chit and sign it and then you went to the hut and put it on the spike . |
| 15 | You see the tractor driving it , there 's the load , this was gathering up the hay as it went along and it tipped it over and we had to make the loads you see . |
| 16 | Just because she had to leave a meeting suddenly did not mean she would relinquish her authority . |
| 17 | They first hit on this method because they were suddenly deprived of their darkroom , shortly before they had to prepare a show . |
| 18 | They could forgive this young man , just as we had to forgive the man who failed to secure his trailer , or they could allow bitterness to completely neutralise everything God was doing in their lives . |
| 19 | And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round . |
| 20 | Once when he had to play a matinée at the Old Vic , for instance , in Hamlet , scarcely offstage for a moment , there was a Welsh International match . |
| 21 | other things had gone up so they had to put the fares up , but I mean that 's , you can nae tell me that that 's right |
| 22 | Then tragedy : after a quick run Lamb 's right calf muscle seized up and he had to leave the field — and from 183 for 4 the score suddenly became 185 for 8 , then 201 all out . |
| 23 | so their charges would go up if you had to have a contingency fund ? |
| 24 | He pressed his mouth down on hers and kissed her long and hard and without any kind of finesse until Robyn felt she 'd throw up if she had to endure the taste of him any longer . |
| 25 | and partly because I had to have an operation which meant that it would n't be easy for me to live in the flats any longer . |
| 26 | Partly because he had to take the daily grind and brunt of this hugely assured and powerful boy 's pains of growth . |
| 27 | Even then one colour ran out and I had to use a substitute on the back , which did n't really matter in the general pattern . |
| 28 | But now the thing was out and he had to make the best of it . |
| 29 | ‘ Put it this way , there would be an entirely different figure on him now if I had to name a price , even though he is 32 in January . |
| 30 | Dustin refused , not only because he had not seen the very different Warner , which the director had , but he justifiably felt he had to find his own direction , even if he had to make a number of detours on the way . |