Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] have [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wondered if Mrs Gray wanted to be fair to her husband and to avoid mentioning him in a role which showed him having to report to HQ , as it were ; or whether she wanted to be fair to Canon Wheeler , about whom , her tone suggested , she might share her husband 's opinion . |
| 2 | The people who lived there had to rely on rainwater , which in the summer was often inadequate . |
| 3 | ‘ It meant I had to stay in character for the five weeks between the two periods of works . |
| 4 | Even Stella , McIllvanney 's long-suffering secretary , had taken the day off , leaving the office locked , which meant I had to walk into town to find a public telephone from which I called the Bahamian Police and told them about Hirondelle , and added that I had rescued a chart and a handful of cartridges from the stricken boat . |
| 5 | Nor was the Treasury convinced by the repeated arguments for the costly increases in police manpower which most Home Secretaries felt they had to secure in order to demonstrate their credibility . |
| 6 | Did you have to go to college or ? |
| 7 | And why did n't they just pad you — why did you have to put on weight specially for it ? |
| 8 | Actively employed at sea for nearly twenty years , for the most part in Far Eastern seas which can legitimately be called romantic , Conrad had no need to add extra colour to his raw material , nor did he have to go beyond fact to find episodes , incidents and nuggets of action to transfer to fiction . |
| 9 | Matron said I had to go to bed early for a fortnight . |
| 10 | He said we had to pray in church , not out in the woods . |