Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [noun] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an inflationary age those who had sound customary tenures reaped the benefits of fixed annual rents , but those tenants who were successfully challenged by their lords had to meet demands for considerable increases . |
| 2 | The Royal Africa Company had to provide slaves for English colonists as a condition of keeping the charter which gave it the monopoly of the trade , and the colonists added to the injury of leaving their debts unpaid the insult of complaining that too few slaves were being delivered . |
| 3 | The king agreed to this , but then had to face petitions for further concessions from both magnates and the commons , who demanded that the charters should be observed , the laws and statutes maintained , and the concessions of 1340 upheld . |
| 4 | When they eventually became man and wife , it was the ‘ quietest of quiet weddings ’ and they had to pay half-a-crown for two passers-by to act as witnesses . |
| 5 | A voluntary group whose ambulance ground to a halt on the two-mile stretch of the B1077 near Watton , Norfolk , had to pay £300 for new tyres . |
| 6 | We had a wholesalers of course we had to get wholesalers for some things . |