Example sentences of "he had [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of his attempts to concentrate as much work as possible into his days in London , he still found he had to take a great deal of it back to Shamley Green . |
| 2 | He had to take a deep breath to stop himself tasting the delicate spot again . |
| 3 | This was true even of the private apartments of the Imperial family , to such an extent that if the Emperor , while working late at night as he often did , wanted a book from his library , he had to take a lighted candle with him . |
| 4 | In between times during the day he had to take a short ladder , laid across the bike and make sure the lamps were clean . |
| 5 | Davidson emphasises above his own role in Provincial 's response a team effort , not only in the sense that he had to delegate a great deal in such a multi-faceted role — although ‘ logically planning goes together with finance and not only did we have the capacity to take on overseas but control of subsidiaries fits too ’ — to his deputies , and , but that the whole company was involved . |
| 6 | Mind you , I ca n't blame Mary : her husband Darnley was so pitted with the pox he had to drape a white veil over his face . |
| 7 | Now you , you listen to this , you listen to this , now he was suffering , he had to carry a bloody bottle |
| 8 | Being a Freemason , he had to memorize a great deal of material , and he did this with TL in his do-it-yourself SAS study . |
| 9 | And he had to spend a good part of the campaign explaining that it meant caution and not complacency . |
| 10 | But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time . |
| 11 | To receive the award , he had to drink a full glass of straight lemon juice without grimacing . |
| 12 | In 1946 , he played in Montreal and in the following year , he transferred to the Brooklyn Dodgers , where he had to weather a strong protest by the rest of the team before making his debut . |
| 13 | Drawing close to the body , under the watchful eyes of Lorrimer and Doyle , he thought , as he often did at such a scene , that it looked unreal , an anomaly , so singularly and ridiculously out of place that he had to stifle a nervous impulse to laugh . |
| 14 | Is it not the case that the right hon. Gentleman 's delay in coming to the House to announce his decision is because , when he looked at the facts , he was minded to reject the application but was told by the puppet master sitting next to him that he had to make a political decision ? |
| 15 | Graham was standing by his window , staring out over the roof of the Comet Building across the street , and when Mike saw who was sitting at Graham 's desk , he had to make a strong effort not to show his surprise . |
| 16 | Borrowing on the security of high hopes and honest intentions , as Malcolm Elwin observed in his edition of Haydon 's autobiography and journals ( 1950 ) , and an unsuccessful attempt to live by credit , had brought insolvency and imprisonment , and now he had to make a new start . |
| 17 | He considered this for a short time and concluded that he had to make a public stand for those things which he believed . |
| 18 | The Army had taught him that , too , and the SAS acceptance tests had rammed the lesson home by sending him out over the damp Brecon Beacons with a 55-lb Bergen rucksack knowing he had to cover a certain distance in a certain time but not knowing that when he had done it , there would n't be the trucks they had promised but a vague assur-ance of a cup of tea if he kept on marching a few more miles in that direction . |
| 19 | He had to write a tiny snippet insisting that it was irony and the editor printed a token letter by a woman who had pointed out that if only young girls were left — and not enough of them to go round — only rich old men would have any chance of sex . |
| 20 | However , he had to have a close feeling of empathy with the horse in the first place to be able to transmit the mental idea . |
| 21 | He had to have a long swig of Bell 's to shift it . |
| 22 | Bracewell , who received the injury in an accidental clash with Gavin Peacock in the derby game at Newcastle last month , played in the FA Cup semi-final victory over Norwich City , but missed the midweek defeat at Leicester last week when he had to have a slight blockage in his nose cleared . |
| 23 | Where the editor rattled her half dozen strings of large beads and remarked with a toothy grin : ‘ They say it 's the fashion — ’ Where Gerald , the art editor — who was reputed to have a fabulous house on the Chelsea Embankment full of priceless works of art — was so sensitive that he had to have a soundproof office specially built for him , while his assistant Jeremy padded along like his superior 's spaniel , and if Gerald wore a shirt of subtle pink on Monday , his minion would appear in the same shade on Tuesday . |
| 24 | In the event he had to have a below-the-knee amputation . |
| 25 | We told him that he had to have a specific programme … that he had to train the hardest that he had ever done in his life . |
| 26 | He had to have a new battery for it , and two of the tyres were n't legal . |
| 27 | From Winnipeg — where he had to work a bootlegging ruse to get a drink — he hitched to New York to stay with some friends of Philip : they were in Vermont and so he busked a few days in Manhattan , perhaps even sang for his supper in Greenwich Village . |
| 28 | He is always optimistic — last year he had to learn a good line in fighting talk to combat Kocinski 's outbursts . |