Example sentences of "the [noun sg] had [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the Board had to pay for Whiterock College , this could mean reducing the budget all around for other Colleges . |
| 2 | The coalition had to agree in principle to the report , announcing its determination to implement the report 's assumption that mass unemployment must be prevented . |
| 3 | Once a deal was struck between matchmaker and the parents , the girl had to stay at home until her marriage . |
| 4 | She had not even had the support of her mother , sister , or boyfriend while she gave birth , and the baby had to stay in hospital for several weeks after she returned alone to her bedsit : |
| 5 | One school , deciding that extra space for resource-based learning was a priority , took over a classroom for use in unstructured individualized work , with the result that other classrooms including some specialist rooms were more heavily used than before ; teachers complained that they could not get in to put up work on the blackboard beforehand , and were introduced to the more thorough use of the overhead projector ; the timetabler had to bear in mind the needs of some practical subjects where the previous laying-out of equipment was vital , but the exercise was valuable in focusing attention on such priorities and making them clear to everyone . |
| 6 | Both crew members ejected safely … but people on the ground had to dive for cover as the plane crashed in a ball of fire . |
| 7 | Normally , the commission had to dispose of land at the best price it could obtain , but there was one important exception . |
| 8 | He ran about the library shouting and shaking his fists at the shelves and the Headmaster had to send for Matron to calm him down . |
| 9 | In the event , the government had to resort to Article 110 of the law , which comes into operation when there is a shortage of foreign exchange at the rates determined by the National Bank . |
| 10 | Thus in ( 36 ) , a typical example of the infinitive of result , managed evokes all the efforts which the subject had to make in order to attain the result and so situates the third-person support in time before — and all the way up to — the point at which " getting free " is actualized . |
| 11 | In the next four hours Gerry Mackenzie 's men stood off Japanese attacks , sometimes using the bayonet to keep the enemy from the airfield , but the platoon had to withdraw before daylight , destroying the airstrip installations as they left . |
| 12 | Within hours Bull told Detective Superintendent Malcolm Hargreaves the hunt had to concentrate on north Wales . |
| 13 | His friends and colleagues were trying to persuade him at the time that this would not be wise — what on earth would happen to the British election campaign if the country had to go to war in the Gulf half-way through ? |
| 14 | We 're gon na look at psychology and what they had to say about , or the school had to say about perception . |
| 15 | While Leopold recovered the family had to live without income , though it seems likely that Mozart made use of the interlude to compose his first symphonies . |