Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] had [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the more difficult cases turned up at her office , where she had to cope without professional help . |
| 2 | She is also a great letter-writer , a hangover no doubt from years at boarding school , where she had to write to both parents every week . |
| 3 | When Phil Collins came on , his jacket had such wide shoulders that I had to lean to one side to see the monitor TV set which the producer uses to scribble messages to me . |
| 4 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 5 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 6 | More sophisticated , more polite , perhaps ; but ‘ easier ’ suggested that I had to pass through some ordeal . |
| 7 | ‘ As soon as I was introduced to the concept of the Dewhurst Tennis Academy , ’ said Mr Dick , ‘ and its sole directive to produce champions , I knew that I had to assist in this exciting initiative for British tennis ’ |
| 8 | She went out of one door but then a sheet of flame came down and blocked me , so I had to look for another way out . ’ |
| 9 | As it happened , this queen mother was the most remarkable and able of them all , and it is therefore something of an irony that she had to wait for twelve years , until 1554 , and stage a successful coup , before obtaining the place which earlier queen mothers had immediately enjoyed . |
| 10 | Leith swallowed hard , and knew , before the weakness of loving him , the weakness of wanting him battered down the rest of her defences , small though those defences were , that she had to appeal to that in him which she somehow knew would make him hate himself if he took her . |
| 11 | Alright , fair enough , you accepted what we 've been saying for ages that we had to go to voluntary competitive tendering right . |
| 12 | I think that er one of the things that we had to examine at national level er and this was done erm after I became a full time officer , erm there 'd usually be a procedure in the national agreement er whereby first of all if we registered failure to agree at domestic level , erm with the management , the next stage was to draw in the district secretary . |
| 13 | What the song was that we had to sing on this stage , with it . |
| 14 | As Dan stated , ‘ The target was under a patch of woods that looked like all the other woods around , so we had to drop on some co-ordinates by a railway track . |
| 15 | So I was still in Berry then and working at the grammar school , so we had to walk across all three causeways for some time . |
| 16 | However no-one had ever heard of dancing in Church , except in Seville in Spain , so we had to stick to choral and solo singing . |
| 17 | The dazibao writers regretted the fact that they had to resort to this medium for making their opinions known . |
| 18 | The steps led downwards , there were crumbling stone walls , so that they had to clutch at narrow ropes sunk into the wall at intervals . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , the nonresonant nature of the nonlinearity in this experiment meant that it had to compete with other nonlinear processes . |
| 20 | We told the child that there was a chocolate in one of the boxes and that he had to point to one of them — guessing of course — to tell the experimenter where to look for the chocolate . |
| 21 | One got the impression that Mr Callaghan felt that he had to put on one side the normal practice of consulting only a small group of inner ministers on economic issues , and had to carry all the colleagues , all twenty-two , if he was to have a hope of carrying the party in the country clearly out of the crisis . |
| 22 | Jesus has just stated that he had to go through great suffering ; to be rejected by the Jewish leaders ; and to be put to death and to rise again . |
| 23 | The Revolution of 1688 lost D'Urfey the courtly connections he had developed , so that he had to turn to other means of support . |
| 24 | His neck and shoulders gradually became so stiff that he had to turn in one piece from the waist up . |
| 25 | One of the major qualities of Michael 's performance was that he had to speak in three accents : one way to his troops , as their superior ; another way to the officers , his superiors ; and a third way to the German who had captured him . |
| 26 | Suchinda announced on May 12 that he would accept parliament 's decision to amend the constitution , even if it meant that he had to resign as Prime Minister . |
| 27 | He realized that he had to watch every word , that he had to edit with great caution , crossing out , interpolating , amending . |
| 28 | Apparently Gagarin said that when he looked out of the right window of his spacecraft and glimpsed the earth for the first time , he had an experience or sense of — and then he used a word which the interpreter did not know the meaning of , so he had to go to another table and ask another interpreter to help . |
| 29 | I used to do that when I was working and I had to leave at half four , used to do our kids , see when that clock gets to nine waken me I 'm fucking cold out our Ashley said mummy it 's after nine |
| 30 | Yeah they got me and I had to turn into one of them octopus things . |