Example sentences of "they had [to-vb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't point out that they had to go back the way they had come , and when he reached into the back and handed her a water container she drank gladly . |
| 2 | They had to go down the rope side-ladder , Richard first . |
| 3 | They were so poor that they had to grind up the bark of trees to make flour for their bread . |
| 4 | But there was always them as just wanted to come and do nothing and pick the money up and that 's what they had to sort out the firms . |
| 5 | They had to take out a loan to pay their last fuel bill . |
| 6 | They were people with connections , interests , obligations and they had to weigh up the advantages and disadvantages and to take other people and other possible futures into account . |
| 7 | My parents were not very well off when they bought it , and they had to have quite a lot of work done on it before we could move in . |
| 8 | So they had to get up the slope fast . |
| 9 | The parents had n't been offered any sort of advice or counselling ; they had all received a letter from Paul Lee inviting them to come and talk to his department , but no one had offered them any information about their children ; if they wanted that they had to ring up the department and ask for it . |
| 10 | showed no stuttering , and the usual blood flow asymmetry favouring the left side , when they had to read aloud a passage of prose . |
| 11 | I guess it 's because I hit them up for so many guitars , they had to even out the balance ! ! |
| 12 | Erm and then of course they had to haul up the floorboards and re re-lay a line for the phone |
| 13 | My br erm my step-brother erm lived in a flat and , and the flat got on fire and they had to climb out the window and jump out |
| 14 | It was only in London they had to keep up the pretence that Buckmaster had nothing to do with his company . |