Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the history seminar had to struggle to find a two-hour block and the language class could never achieve the desired continuity by organizing its contact time over three , let alone four days of the week . |
| 2 | Benny moved along with a strong sense of adventure , and had to resist whistling a jaunty tune as she crept through the scrubby vegetation that surrounded the cemetery . |
| 3 | Some of us remember the times of fixed exchange rates under the Bretton Woods system when we used to hear in the House details of public expenditure cuts , of how we had to let go a great deal of our reserves , and of high interest rates — all at once . |
| 4 | The tale goes that a little while back , IBM Corp was using street names , reportedly from the Palo Alto town map , as its product code names — Sierra , Summit perhaps — and had been carefully working up the map , so that all you had to do to put a top IBMer into a real flap was to pick a name from the map a couple of streets up from the most recent one you 'd heard of and ask how that product was coming along . |
| 5 | The tale goes that a little while back , IBM Corp was using street names , reportedly from the Palo Alto town map , as its product code names — Sierra , Summit perhaps — and had been carefully working up the map , so that all you had to do to put a top IBMer into a real flap was to pick a name from the map a couple of streets up from the most recent one you 'd heard of and ask how that product was coming along . |
| 6 | ‘ We never see those sort of pitches in county cricket now and on this tour our batsmen had to start learning a different technique of playing against spinners in a very short time . |
| 7 | Harold then heard of the landing of William of Normandy and had to force march a weary army to Hastings where he was defeated and William became King of England . |
| 8 | And to join the group you had to have killed a German soldier . |
| 9 | Her old father was extricating himself from the front seat slowly , painfully , gasping , as though he had to push open a heavy coffin lid in order to rise from the dead . |