Example sentences of "they had [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It was upstairs again , and now twenty-past eight , and she was informed by her apparent new friend that they had to join a small team to clean the toilets , which meant bringing the buckets down stairs , emptying them in the larger buckets arrayed along the wall by a side door ; then wash out each utensil under a pump and return it to its particular cubicle . |
2 | They had to do a hundred yards in combat kit . |
3 | the ones who are , who have seen it all before , and done it from last year , because they had to split a smaller section of them up into the first year . |
4 | they had to call a special engineer |
5 | They had to call a special engineer |
6 | Because the governor 's palace was in a state of very sad repair and they had to put a new roof in it . |
7 | When I came back to England I was very humbled really to erm because I arrived in Nepal three hours before that crash and erm a lot of people had thought I 'd died in that crash and erm the patients had thought I 'd died as well and they had to put a big notice outside to say that I 'd been alright , they had lots of people ringing up . |
8 | They had to answer a single question . |
9 | They say they had to stop a passing cleaner to take a plate from her trolley |
10 | There was no proper funeral , as there had been no proper wedding ceremony ; they simply hauled the waterlogged body onto a bonfire of driftwood , and even though the sea wind at dawn had made the fire hot enough to break the stones of the beach , it was six hours before the body was gone , and then they had to wait a whole day before they could rake the ashes for his bones and send them to her . |
11 | Julias Lukasiewicz , from Carlton University in Ottawa , Canada , said that if new high speed trains were to be successful in North America then they had to include a new track like the Japanese Bullet trains or the french TGV . |
12 | Not your fault they had to hire a bloody crane ! |
13 | The council agreed to object to the pylons , but said if they had to have a preferred option , it would be for the western , or red route . |
14 | Nevertheless , to receive their Urban Programme funding , they had to produce an annual programme for submission to the Department of the Environment . |
15 | They had to assume a national debt of 4300 million guilders ( US $1130 million ) of which 1.291 million guilders ( $339 million ) must be paid in foreign currency . |
16 | In fact once submerged they had to find a red rod and drag themselves along it to the other side of the stage ; more than one mother screamed in fear when she saw the show . |
17 | There was nothing there — men had to make their own markers or monuments , and eventually they had to build an entire landscape of monuments . |
18 | It was not until the next morning that the local council realised they had to repair a large hole in the middle of the square . |
19 | The hardest task for the lads was swamp skiing , a severe test of cooperative behaviour where they had to navigate a 50 metre course barred by three electrified barriers on two 10 foot planks of wood . |