Example sentences of "she had [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He had assumed , discriminated , made her feel as if she had to apologise for the way she lived her life , when he knew nothing , nothing of her circumstances or her reasons . |
| 2 | She had to sit in the waiting-room , on a slippery horsehair sofa , while it was going on . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , she had to withdraw from the Symposium , feeling that the effort was too much considering the work that she still required to do on her own Flora . |
| 4 | She had to live with the memory of the death of many of her fellow-workers . |
| 5 | When she married she had to live in the country and , instead of bemoaning what she 'd lost in the way of concerts and the theatre , she enjoyed what was on offer . |
| 6 | AS A small girl Arden saw A Flea in Her Ear and knew she had to go into the theatre . |
| 7 | I smiled smugly at her because she had to go into the rain and I did not . |
| 8 | She had to go through the ritual of pleading for information while he pretended reluctance , but then he told her what appeared to be everything . |
| 9 | She had to go to the jetty in order to steal my speedboat — though , undoubtedly , it was your brother who did the actual stealing . ’ |
| 10 | Under his gaze she had to go to the sitting-room where she had slept , while he knew why she went and knelt by the sleeping-bag , which was only just out of his line of sight . |
| 11 | Paul , her husband , generally left before seven and had lunch out with one of his friends , while she used her free day to take care of a thousand chores more annoying than the duties of her job : she had to go to the post office and fret for half an hour in a queue , go shopping in the supermarket , where she quarrelled with the saleswoman and wasted time waiting at the check-out , telephone the plumber and plead with him to be precisely on time so that she would n't have to wait the whole day for him . |
| 12 | She had to go to the Garfield Centre , where she taught one day a week , to see the inmates perform their Christmas entertainment . |
| 13 | She had to drive to the end of the street to turn round ; when she passed Giles 's house on the way back the door was closed . |
| 14 | ‘ For the first month she had to sleep on the settee , and I lay on the floor beside her . |
| 15 | Esther was allowed home , although she had to return to the hospital every day to breast-feed the baby . |
| 16 | Once there , she had to gamble on the consulting room being unlocked . |
| 17 | Ingrid was in fact twenty-nine , which was young compared with Gesner , but not young for a dancer and she found the routines rather a strain , especially when she had to sing at the end of them . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , ’ she went on , her voice heavy with sarcasm , ‘ he never actually got round to marrying my mother so , on top of everything else , she had to cope with the stigma of an illegitimate child . ’ |
| 19 | Anyone with a spark of humanity would want to help a poor girl left defenceless and hard up , especially when she had to cope with the rearing of a young child , single handed . |
| 20 | He explained she had to stand in the wings directing the beam of a torch at a strategically placed mirror which would send a reflection of light dancing across the back-cloth of Never-Never Land . |
| 21 | And she had to come in the car while I |
| 22 | Because she had to provide for the Barons and for her other gentleman who was still with her she was obliged to go out daily to market and this quite ordinary transaction restored some of her spirits . |
| 23 | Sometimes she had to help with the weaving , and her fingers were sore from bending stems round the spokes . |
| 24 | She had to wash in the shed some distance from the tower which has no bathroom facilities . |
| 25 | Yeah , folk here just never been out since New Year , then she had to work at the hospital Tuesday , well Bradley said if you do n't feel fit enough phone up and we 'll send a nurse to you I said you 're bloody mental , you ask for everything you get , I said instead of phoning the nurse in , ah but I think Alison told me they both need a good , good bloody feed they do |
| 26 | When a bather wanted more hot water , he or she had to shout over the noise of filling baths and protesting bathers and the Duchesse singing , and depending on how this eccen-tric woman felt , she would either top up the water from a source outside the cubicles or tell the bather his time was up . |
| 27 | No , and she had to pay for the petrol . |
| 28 | She was furious that she had to walk down the hill in her six-inch heels . |
| 29 | Then she had to run across the stage on her own . |
| 30 | She would have to phone her grandfather and tell him , she said , and she had to get into the van for her purse . |