Example sentences of "he had [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But if he was caught with the with the crown , by his opponents before he circled them and came back to his own allies … then he had to go outside the camp , and he was called a [ maggot ! ] .
2 He had to go through the churchyard to reach the back lane so he counted the houses to be sure of identifying Alfred 's door .
3 He had to go through the shopping centre to get there , and the market-place .
4 Still , he had until two o'clock before he had to go into the College — today was the day he did evening teaching .
5 Part way through that exercise he had to go into the storeroom to check a detail regarding the number of the machine which had been selected .
6 Those were the last words he said to me , apart from when he woke up and said he had to go to the toilet but you do n't count that , do you . ’
7 He 'd say that he 'd suddenly remembered he had to go to the theatre with his family , or to a friend 's engagement party .
8 Then , obviously wanting to leave us alone , our friend said that he had to go to the village of Lalatta for a short time ; he would be back in twenty minutes , by which time I would have to start making my way back to Lagrimone .
9 He realised suddenly that he had to go to the bathroom .
10 Daddy wanted that farm very badly but they did n't have much money between them , so he had to go to the bank and ask for a loan .
11 Dad was under his car working on it one Sunday morning when the police drove by and handed him a ‘ producer ’ , which meant that he had to go to the police station with all his driving documents .
12 But if he was going to carry the coffin he had to go to the funeral service , so the Church had him by the balls again , as it had , more or less , since he was born .
13 Now he knew what he had to do : he had to go to the Unification Church and find out what , if anything , was going on there .
14 We had to take the photographs , he had to go on the pitch , did n't he ?
15 That 's punishment , yeah , they would either do that or there was one driver down there he broke a wheel , that were n't his fault , and he had to pay for it , he had to go in the office like I did once .
16 The prize-giving was supposed to be compèred by Fatty Harris , but having taken so many nips while he was commentating , he had to pop into the Portaloo immediately after the match .
17 Previously , in the eighteenth and seventeenth centuries , a man himself could dress and show how wealthy he was , and when man started going to work he had to wear a respectable , responsible suit ; he had to put across the image of honesty , of , you know , I 'm , I 'm a respectable man , I 'm decent , I 'm down to earth .
18 now against an apple tree and I asking him I was it permissible to go scrumping and he had to converse with the maid I think
19 He had to swap with the person on his left did n't he ?
20 I can excuse him for yesterday as he had to leave at the start of the second half to appear on Question of Sport : - ) .
21 So he had to wait in the house and er now it 's bed time now .
22 He was also a public figure of some note , being alderman from 1541 and lord mayor in 1550–1 , when he had to deal with the problems caused by dearth and by the 1551 ‘ calling down ’ of the coinage .
23 He had to deal with the cabinet . ’
24 He had to settle for the seat at Sladen 's right hand , opposite the Assistant Secretary .
25 In it , he was filmed diving overboard in one scene , and in order to get the sequence right , he had to dive over the side seven times .
26 Asked in February 1987 what he had to say about the conclusions of the Tower Report , the first detailed inquiry into the affair , he referred reporters to ‘ the eighth Beatitude of Matthew 5 ’ : ‘ Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness ' sake , for theirs is the kingdom of heaven . ’
27 He had told me what he had to say about the murder and was free to call me again any time .
28 He would rather have stayed in the open , where they were n't searching for him , but he had to return to the gatehouse .
29 After three years , during which he had to cope with the death of his youngest son , Mr Mathew was denied leave to appeal against the March 1984 judgment .
30 He had to hunch over the wheel to see anything .
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