Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enid Nightshade , the new girl who arrived last term and was now their friend , came zooming over the treetops and screeched to a halt so forcefully that her cat and suitcase shot off the back , and Maud and Mildred had to leap out of the way to avoid being run over . |
| 2 | Injuries have hit the club , and coach Billy Lomax had to come on as a substitute midway through the second half . |
| 3 | Crocker had to fly back to the USA the following day , so there was limited time to convert John Allison with the airshow being held the following day . |
| 4 | The rear window of one of the shops looked out over poor Mary 's deposited remains and Martin had to go in through the narrow entrance to flash his lamp on it . |
| 5 | The combined force of the rhythm section and the group 's percussive sound meant that Tyson had to come up with a different approach to his playing . |
| 6 | Once Richards had to dive out of the way as Tribe , twisting and stretching in his straps lurched across the formation . |
| 7 | These cottage front doors were never used — some even had rows of flowerpots across the sill as a deterrent — and Anna had to go round to the back to find a resting place for the magazine . |
| 8 | There were insufficient funds for a third appointment so that Allan Hayhurst had to carry on in an honourary capacity combining once again the offices of Secretary and Treasurer . |
| 9 | Gable refused to work further and Metro 's boy-wonder Irving Thalberg had to fly out to the location at Catalina to calm Gable down and persuade him to continue filming . |
| 10 | Everyone crowded in and Maria had to sit up on the ledge of the window to be seen and heard . |
| 11 | Bobo ran to the back of her cage and Fifi had to scamper out of the way to save herself from being trampled , and then Bobo was storming back with a handful of straw and dung which she hurled at Donaldson before slamming herself into the bars and screaming loudly as they shook . |
| 12 | Last night 's crucial Maastricht vote following the debate in the House of Commons meant Mr Gummer had to pull out of the Welsh farming conference organised by the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society , the Welsh Agricultural College and Midland Bank . |
| 13 | just as Peter Slade had to stand up against a tradition of formalised children 's drama , so Brian Way had to educate teachers into understanding that children deserved something better than light entertainment . |
| 14 | Harper had to drop out of the race with badly blistered feet after completing 80.53 miles . |
| 15 | Chris had to hold on to the grab handle of the jeep or she would have been flung out . |
| 16 | He had been ten weeks in the bush , a womanless bush , and Olga Stych had to put up with the fact . |
| 17 | Queen Victoria went there for the first , very influential time in 1889 , though even before that the surprisingly large English community in Pau had begun to colonize it , to such an extent that by the 1870s not only did the Church of England have congregations in Biarritz but they were already schismatic and the Archbishop of Canterbury had to travel out on a pastoral visit to try and stifle the factionalism . |