Example sentences of "they had [to-vb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arthur found the reasons for this unfathomable , but took it that they had to do with a comparison to his own looks . |
| 2 | With all the technological genius that can be raised in the USA to produce a B-1 supersonic bomber , they had to settle for a cruising speed of 1.25 times the speed of sound while the routine Concorde bus service across the Atlantic ticks over steadily at fully twice the speed of sound — and anyone who can afford to buy a ticket can experience it . |
| 3 | He said he was very heartened to hear the comments of those taking part ; all felt they had to finish as a matter of pride — they do not give up easily in Gawthorpe . |
| 4 | They need her for longer , but there 's no money available ; because of a shortage of funds , they had to rely on a charity to provide a … until they had pit he was in hospital with a chest infection every 2 weeks . |
| 5 | They had to go through a lot of blocks . |
| 6 | That 's right they had to go on a rota . |
| 7 | Once in , they had to dive for a golf ball , put it in a bucket and return to the trapeze to do it all again — fun eh ! |
| 8 | In particular they had to deal with a fire-bomb that might get lodged on the roof . |
| 9 | well we always had entertained friends but we 'd never been in a position to put them up so that erm most of our friendly visits were from people who did n't live very far from us , it meant that families , nieces , nephews etcetera were difficult to accommodate because they had to sleep on a couch or a settee in the living room with all its diff difficulties , especially when it meant in the morning for breakfast you had to get them up and dressed before you could start thinking about breakfast , and I think that those sort of things are things that er people ought to take into consideration when thinking about new housing . |
| 10 | Then they had to stop for a rest because they were so tired . |
| 11 | As they crossed to the supermarket they had to wait as an assistant wearing a jacket over his uniform wheeled a long line of trolleys from a loading bay into the store . |
| 12 | But they had to wait for a host of their rivals to commit pop suicide before they could begin the job of moulding this new discovery . |
| 13 | Turning to those who were referred by the GP to another agency , a major problem experienced by this group was the length of time they had to wait for an appointment ( see also Watson 1985 ) . |
| 14 | The situation is very much easier today than even ten years ago when male/female roles were far more stereotyped and many couples felt that they had to conform to a set pattern for the sake of convention . |
| 15 | But first they had to look for a camp site so Mr was the chief engineer I was employed by him , to have a look round and we discovered Lyness farm to be a suitable place . |
| 16 | The others took it up , humming or singing , and walked in time to it until old Donald got breathless and they had to saunter for a while . |
| 17 | The point that I want to reiterate here , before extending this concept of structure theoretically , is that in the drama process the surface meaning of the event , the meaning which in fact would play a large part if we were to tell it as a story — ‘ And the townsfolk listened to the Government representative and they had to come to a decision ’ — may not provide the required game structure . |
| 18 | Prior to 1952 , section 14 of the Summary Jurisdiction Act 1848 provided that justices ‘ shall convict … or make an order … , ’ i.e. that they had to come to a decision . |
| 19 | The sums which people paid Maples for furniture were very small compared with what they had to pay for a house to put it in . |