Example sentences of "[coord] had [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The working-class wives of early eighteenth-century London earned from charring , laundry , nursing , making and mending clothes , hawking , silk-winding and in the catering and victualling services : The great majority of women were unable to work in male trades and , since nearly three quarters of women wanted to or had to work for a living , they necessarily competed intensely for the work which was left , much of it of a casual nature and none of it organised by gilds and livery companies . |
| 2 | And er I got a questionable spot on the lung and had to go to the Ransom Sanatorium . |
| 3 | er s er but those occupations that worked shift and had to go round the clock had to have eight hour shifts , three shifts . |
| 4 | As an air-raid had just begun they could not leave and had to remain in an ambience where , as they now acutely realised , they were not wanted and did not belong . |
| 5 | One foggy night she lost her way and had to grope along the bank for some way finally realising that she had circled round and returned to the Halling side by mistake . |
| 6 | I took a turn on a rope slide and had to sit on a tractor tyre on the way down . |
| 7 | Treleaven , from Hayling , only got in as a last-minute replacement when Michael Welch , on EGU duty in Spain , crushed his thumb in a door and had to scratch from the Salver and Sunday 's Hampshire Hog at North Hants , where he should have been defending . |
| 8 | Once into the trees , they lost sight of the sun and the sky and had to rely on the compass to keep them heading in the right direction . |
| 9 | The airfield 's codename was " Vino " and was near Epernay , the only thing I can remember of that occasion was that we got lost and had to ask for a radio steer from the ground station , We were anxious to get back there because the next evening Gracie Fields was performing for the troops in a local theatre , Of the visit to Prague ( which we never found ) . |
| 10 | Maximus tried to reconquer Rome but failed and had to call in the help of his British brothers-in-law . |
| 11 | She was weak from post-operative shock , and had to lean against the wall . |
| 12 | Both started young and had to work through a range of personal problems and private defeats . |
| 13 | He was wearing two pairs of thermal overalls and had to struggle to the surface . |
| 14 | He reached it without mishap but had to wait for a while , watching the day begin , until the ferrymaster arrived . |
| 15 | Eventually , well into the afternoon , we found the route — but had to wait for a couple who pushed in front claiming they were ‘ HVS climbers ’ and would not take long . |
| 16 | He beat fellow American and world No 5 Michael Chang 7–5 , 6–2 , but had to wait for the result of the final round robin match in his group between big-hitters Goran Ivanisevic and Richard Krajicek to see if he would get through to the semi-finals of this last ranking competition of the year . |
| 17 | In 1909 , in Faversham , the old were permitted to live with their children in the summer , doing fieldwork and babysitting chores , but had to return to the workhouse in winter . |
| 18 | Each religion developed its own particular insight , but had to cater for a number of different needs : if you were born in India , for example , you were likely to be either a Buddhist or a Hindu . |