Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [to-vb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nebbins was Mr Cooper 's only horse who worked very hard , pulled the plough and the hay cart , and his , all the other jobs that a horse had to do on a farm . |
| 2 | Each episode had to end with a cliff-hanger and repeat this at the start of the next episode . |
| 3 | There was a time when a priest had to sneak like a thief through the back streets and alleyways of this city in order to say Mass in some garret or other . |
| 4 | Whether or not the subject of a mosaic was chosen by the client , the mosaicist had to rely on a number of aids and methodical practices when organising his work . |
| 5 | The Easter Rising in Dublin and the government 's abortive plan to rush through a Home Rule settlement caused an even greater furore ; this time Bonar Law had to agree to a meeting of the Central Council , but only alter the cabinet had dropped the Home Rule idea , and with a stipulation in advance that questions would be allowed but not resolutions . |
| 6 | Its polyphony had to reckon with an element to which Humanism attached enormous importance : the words . |
| 7 | To own a boarding house required capital in the first instance and to maintain the boarding house as a business venture in the early years the husband had to work as a taxi driver or have a part-time job during the winter . |
| 8 | Demarcation problems were foreseen if a county court had to deal with a dispute involving men of different counties , or when a " criminal " fled from one county into another . |
| 9 | IN 1987 Labour 's local selection committee in this working class constituency had to choose between a rock and a hard place — either Hughes , a local Transport Union convenor with strong left-wing views , or the outsider , ‘ Red Ted ’ Knight from Lambeth . |
| 10 | I suppose the winning streak had to come to an end sometime and really it 's better now when we can do something about it than at crimble when it 'll be more difficult to start shifting the team around in the more hectic fixture list . |
| 11 | It accepted that while there were arguments for a full scale review , the priority had to progress on an alteration which as quickly as possible , established the principle of a Greater York new settlement and progress on the greenbelt local plan . |
| 12 | On Monday 27 February Fleischmann and Pons were due to bring their working cell to Brigham Young University for the neutron spectrum to be measured , but a graduate student had to go to a funeral and so they suggested it would be better to come at the end of the week instead . |
| 13 | A MAN had to run through a gauntlet of flames to save his life when his first floor flat turned into an inferno . |
| 14 | Was ashore in a cleft among the rocks there and the the lifeboat had to turn in a position that was just about twice her own length . |
| 15 | This was partly to save money ( since an ambassador had to live in a style and with an expense which was not expected of lesser mortals ) and partly to minimise the risk of quarrels over precedence . |
| 16 | Thus there could be no economies of scale in case a sleeve cut from one lay of medium blue had to go with a dress cut from another lay of so-called medium blue . |
| 17 | So my Mum had to move into a flat . |
| 18 | Faced with the threat of losing its Parliamentary representatives the NAC had to agree to a plebiscite of the membership on the issue . |
| 19 | Intimacies soon followed and , because they did not share a common language in those early days , the words of love that they shared over breakfast had to pass through a translator . |
| 20 | The matron also told us that this patient had to go into a nursing home ‘ towards the end ’ because ‘ she needed morphine injections which the doctor would n't give otherwise she would n't have had to move to somewhere strange . |
| 21 | The Secretary 's office had to double as a bridge room ( to save coal ) , and the subscription to Illustrated Sporting was cancelled , although not yet to The Tatler ! ’ |
| 22 | The Carey family had to rely on a house provided by a Bengali moneylender to save them from destitution . |
| 23 | So although his neighbours opposite occupied houses with gardens , his side of the street had to work for a living : he would have been used to seeing the flame fanned by the bellows of the blacksmith , the steam rising from the sweating horses in the carrier , s stables , and — we may hope — a line of customers waiting to be served in his little shop . |
| 24 | To make matters worse it was generally believed that the spirit of the child would remain in the body of the mother , and so for three days after the actual birth the mother had to sit by a wood and bamboo fire and sweat out the child 's spirit so that the child should be completed and the mother freed from what was now an alien spirit inside her . |