Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] had [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I do remember we 'd already put his full name on the car and had to remove the last part of it . ’
2 She does n't get a newspaper and had to ask the social security for new shoes for the two children at school where their last pair of trainers got holes .
3 Rhiannon Petts weighed just one pound three ounces at birth and had to spend the first nine months of her life in hospital .
4 Labour was in government and had to make the best of it , but the party was with a less numerous support bloc than even the Selsdon Heath of 1970 .
5 Janet added : ‘ My husband had a wicked sense of humour and had to have the last laugh in life and death .
6 The real limitation was time ; many students , although they enjoyed the projects , felt the pressure of looming final examinations and said that they were unable to complete their project to their own satisfaction and had to make the best of a bad job in order to work at other , equally pressing , aspects of the course .
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