Example sentences of "and had [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And er I got a questionable spot on the lung and had to go to the Ransom Sanatorium .
2 er s er but those occupations that worked shift and had to go round the clock had to have eight hour shifts , three shifts .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 I took a turn on a rope slide and had to sit on a tractor tyre on the way down .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 ) .
9 Maximus tried to reconquer Rome but failed and had to call in the help of his British brothers-in-law .
10 She was weak from post-operative shock , and had to lean against the wall .
11 Both started young and had to work through a range of personal problems and private defeats .
12 He was wearing two pairs of thermal overalls and had to struggle to the surface .
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