Example sentences of "had [to-vb] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for me , I had to wait the whole summer and into the late autumn for rehearsals of The Jungle Book to begin , so I went back to South London , happy in the knowledge that soon I 'd be in a professional production and there 'd be someone in the cast for me to fall in love with . |
| 2 | But it said that to get at the root of the problem the Government had to tackle the whole issue of deprivation . |
| 3 | But , even if you were , you had to buy the whole manifesto . |
| 4 | The heat surge grill thing in the car had broken and you could n't just buy a n individual switch you er had to buy the whole thing and it was |
| 5 | The boxer : the end of the round , the bell went , his seconds had put down his stool , he was there to sit , and his opponent had to walk the whole way back to his own corner . |
| 6 | Every time the car went round a corner you had to turn the whole radio round to face a different way That was the only way you could get half-decent reception . |
| 7 | ‘ So I had to spend the whole morning trying to organise another venue . |
| 8 | So we thought we would have to lose either the display case or the rebuilt wall — and then an old friend of ours , who happens to be the Emeritus Professor of Suburban Buildings at the University of Lutterworth , visiting one day , told us that these houses never actually had a dividing wall between the front room and the back parlour-so we had to take the whole wall out and remodel the opening in the original style , with a simple lintel and unadorned verticals , which we bought at auction in Fyfe . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I had to take the whole test again because I blinked , ’ he said . |
| 10 | And so er the guy had to bring the whole project forward a month . |