Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Part-way through entering the sale , Mr. S. had to go into the store-room to check a detail regarding the [ number of the ] machine that had been selected .
2 It was in these circumstances that the LDDC had to go to the Treasury for more money in 1989/90 , and again in 1990/91 , and was very successful in getting what it wanted .
3 I am not sure that I listened to much more of what Didier had to recount on the subject of Montaine 's death .
4 To some extent he was lucky : at the beginning of his reign he encountered a pope , Gregory X , whom he had already met in England in the 1260s and on crusade in 1272–4 ; at the end of his reign Edward had to deal with a pope , Clement V , who had been his subject and his servant in Bordeaux ; in the interval between these two popes there were ten others , but nine of these together occupied the papal throne for barely fifteen years , five of them for less than a year each , two for four years apiece , one for nearly three , and one for two only .
5 Karadjordje had to contend with a group of strong-willed oligarchs who enjoyed considerable power within their own territories and who jealously guarded the various perquisites which they had acquired , such as the levying of ferry tolls and local taxes .
6 Some of his fans became involved in fighting and Bulloch had to return to the ring to appeal to them to stop .
7 Moran began to see how little Maggie had to do in the house and that she needed money for dances and clothes now .
8 Actually as the others knew , she agreed with them , did not need the furious condemnation that Faye had to use as a fuel to keep going .
9 The two men came face-to-face in a New York hotel and Maloney said Lewis came close to ‘ laying out ’ the world champion adding : ‘ Bowe had to duck round the corner . ’
10 Anyway , as you know , we were almost brought up in the same bassinet , and , as I made out to Mama just a short while ago , if Isobel had to choose between the horse and me , the horse would come out best . ’
11 The IMF had to intervene in the past and in the future it would be the European Monetary Institute .
12 ‘ And that ties in with what Dippy Martin had to say about a woman entering by the Glynns ’ back door at around 11.30 . ’
13 In fact , Sandy Lyle had to emerge from a pack of players at Royal St Georges in 1985 to become the first British winner for years .
14 Millett J had to deal with the argument that it would be a breach of the covenant if the defendant were during the remainder of the period of restraint , to solicit any business of any kind from any company which happened to have been a customer of the plaintiff company during the relevant period .
15 At least two of the five he had brought back with him were in worse case than he ; and Adam , who had perhaps come off lightest in actual injuries , was by no means to be envied for that , for the same story Owen had to tell to the Prince , Adam was at this moment telling to Gilleis .
16 Liverpool had to rely on the lottery of a penalty shoot out .
17 Turnbull had to retire with a shoulder knock in the second half but he was so drained and short of breath that he could not finish his sentence .
18 The caller gave the name of a football team and Ubaldo had to reply with the name of the team they were playing the following Sunday .
19 When speaking to him I made no reference to the writer to the Hebrews , to the apostle Paul , to Moses or to the apostle Peter , but rather I concentrated on what the Lord Jesus Christ had to say on the subject .
20 Their action comes three days after BR had to postpone for a year its bill to build a high-speed Channel tunnel rail link to central London .
21 ( George McCluskey had to settle for a place on the bench , which opened the door for Tom Brown , who just a few months ago was playing Junior football with Glenafton .
22 Mr de Klerk had to call off the rally and a lunch at which he was to have been honoured , and was whisked away in an official car to nearby Cape Town .
23 ‘ Suddenly Souness had to start from the bottom and try to build not just from an injury-decimated side , but from one whose senior players were in the most part over 30 and past it .
24 But when he opted for either of John Hay 's horses , they argued : Johnson had to settle for the grey owned by Laughland Vass .
25 For the next sequence , Crawford and the Suzuki had to jump into a pond ; a three-foot ramp was used this time .
26 In October Britain had to yield to the pressure and agree to endorse the establishment under the Brussels Treaty of a study commission on the feasibility of an assembly .
27 Some builders on what began as prestigious estates in Britain had to compromise with the arrival of the recession , and alter their plans to include cheaper housing .
28 They laughed so hard that Nathan had to pull off the road .
29 Christina had to yell at the top of her voice to be heard above the wind , her long hair whipping across her face .
30 Then the pastry for the tarte , again all mixed by hand , would not lift off the board — which was the only time Eric had to come to the rescue .
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