Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] had [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went to the doctor , but he just sent a letter to the Detox Unit and I had to wait three months [ for the appointment ] . |
| 2 | It got quite bad after a while and I had to hold hot towels underneath him to get the blood moving . |
| 3 | As far as Kuwait is concerned we 'd like to see our country free again and this gives us the type of hope we have been wanting for the past six months , and I am sure for the people inside Kuwait — because I was there for about three weeks prior to the after the invasion I was there and I had to escape that country . |
| 4 | He was a hard worker , and you had to set these pens every time for the sheep you see , well he could carry three hurdles on his back , and I could , five , that 's right five , and I could carry three , he carried five . |
| 5 | T. B. You had to see what they were passing through and you had to have a chit and you had to time this chit and sign it and then you went to the hut and put it on the spike . |
| 6 | inch by two and you had to tell these dockers what size it was and they 'd take it out of that particular stack . |
| 7 | And she had to pay six quid for |
| 8 | She put the telephone down on the floor and knelt beside it , facing Shildon and saying Tavett was in trouble and she had to make some calls . |
| 9 | Time was passing , and she had to catch that London train . |
| 10 | And it and we had to collect twenty cans and then when you 've collected twenty cans that is enough for one trees one tree and it is gon na be planted in Sherwood Forest and it 's going to stay there for hundreds and hundreds of years . |
| 11 | There was then the general context , RAWP had been sorted out , our other strategy had to be priority care , and we had to fund geographical equity and care group equity . |
| 12 | Transport was scarce and we had to carry special identity cards when we moved from our own villages . |
| 13 | And we had to shift this lot . |
| 14 | And we had to pay fifteen quid for the train ticket . |
| 15 | and it just went and we had to get these guys who , who did the washing machine |
| 16 | We ran out of water and some other friends ran out of water and we had to help each other and we were getting stuck in the sand and the heat was very high because it was in August and it was around noon time , so erm some people actually turned back erm they could n't continue , unfortunately ; they are friends of ours . |
| 17 | Editors still had to submit their material for inspection ( after it had been printed , but before it was distributed ) ; they could be penalized both by indictment in the courts and by direct action on the part of the Minister of Internal Affairs ; and they had to lodge monetary bonds with the authorities to facilitate the payment of fines if the government moved against them . |
| 18 | Well to be quite honest I think the reason she wanted it in Norwich was cos Glasgow 're over-loaded as it was I think and they had to learn new skills and staff support and therefore it might not be a good idea to have them as well |
| 19 | So as a result of that because it 's been erm changed in the nineteenth century the eighteen forties and eighteen fifties , architectural historians who we who were faced with a real problem with York cos York had something like fifty medieval churches and erm er about thirty of them surviving into into the twentieth century , erm and they had to make some decisions about which ones to preserve and which ones to let go . |
| 20 | At the Albert Hall Rally of the Left Book Club in February 1937 , " Mr Harry Pollitt said there was a new awakening among the middle classes and they had to rope these people in rather than keep them out . " |
| 21 | A huge party from the City Chambers arrived without reservations and they had to shove three tables together , and right after that , in came fourteen Japanese tourists . |
| 22 | I remember when they went to Korea and they had to have these overcoats I sewed on hundreds of buttons , about 10 minutes each coat . |
| 23 | And they had to send one wagon , because they could n't load it , over to pick up some more |
| 24 | Despite their expertise in such field craft , though , there was a limit to the area the Australians could control , and they had to send more men south to protect their supply line from the coast . |
| 25 | Several of the dormitories were flooded because of the water , including Endill 's , and he had to spend some nights sleeping in Mr Rumback 's room . |
| 26 | bill for the quarter between the second of August and the twentieth of September , and he had to pay seven quid for standing charges for that bill . |
| 27 | It did not solve his problem but the poor fellow had to make out his report and he had to find some element of evidence and so far he had n't got much to write down . |
| 28 | My billetors were kind , but I had to spend considerable time in their sitting-room , and I felt this was an invasion of privacy for both of us . |
| 29 | ‘ I certainly have n't invited him , but I had to give Slender Billy a score of tickets , so who knows who he might bring ? ’ |
| 30 | but I had to lie any way cos otherwise she would be more annoyed , I was going , I , say I go , I |