Example sentences of "they had [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round . |
| 2 | Diane always tried to keep her weekends for spending with Jed , but because of the rain they had to spend the early part of the day in their own below-stairs lounge , watching the Saturday morning cartoons on television . |
| 3 | Sometimes they had to attend the fashionable church in Mayfair where Canon Broome 's brother-in-law was rector . |
| 4 | The tricky part would come when they had to leave the straight track and turn down through a gate and a field , but magic never worked if the thing you had to do was too easy . |
| 5 | For all their talk about the wisdom of the marketplace , the Thatcher government could not give up the paternalistic idea that they had to regulate the independent television companies , with the continuation of the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the guise of an Independent Television Commission . |
| 6 | ‘ It got dark Saturday afternoon while they were out hiking , so they had to use the Secret Service to find their way back down again . ’ |
| 7 | The British found a role as recent emancipators in advising others , though they had to acknowledge the continued participation of British capital and goods in the slave trade and the possession of slaves by British functionaries abroad . |
| 8 | If he showed them the latest Washington telegram which he had seen before his departure [ KPs 66 and 85 ] , they would have been made aware that although they had to exercise the utmost restraint for the time being , a new and firmer policy might soon be adopted . |
| 9 | Whatever divided them , they had to share the same planet ; and this dictated a ‘ constructive dialogue , a search for solutions to key international problems , for areas of agreement ’ . |
| 10 | Although Howard did n't actually have to come face to face with Brando , they had to share the same set . |
| 11 | They were not even given their wings and for the next two years , on the ‘ last in last out ’ principle , they had to endure the insufferable tedium of waiting for demobilisation . |
| 12 | With François Mitterrand 's re-election for a second seven-year term in 1988 , they had to face the demoralising prospect of being out of power for 14 years . |
| 13 | Next they had to face the assembled school and were given three cheers . |
| 14 | They had to dismantle the entire table at the Highwayman pub in Berwick , Northumbria , to free him . |