Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To make matters worse it was generally believed that the spirit of the child would remain in the body of the mother , and so for three days after the actual birth the mother had to sit by a wood and bamboo fire and sweat out the child 's spirit so that the child should be completed and the mother freed from what was now an alien spirit inside her . |
| 2 | Apparently they all had to sit in a circle and put their hands on the playing board . |
| 3 | Well that was the , the erm union for us , erm I think erm one of the great assets of being in public transport was that we were in a local erm pension scheme , erm when , when we in the office started , we had to wait until we were eighteen and then we had to wait for a vacancy because there was a limited number of people that the Council were prepared to back by paying a similar amount . |
| 4 | Clare was fired for turning up late after she had to wait for a doctor because Josh had a temperature . |
| 5 | Gradually , as time passed without this return occurring , Christians had to cope with a world that continued to exist , its end being postponed to an indefinite future . |
| 6 | Racal Electronics , up 10p at 237p , had to contend with a down and up grading by County NatWest WoodMac . |
| 7 | She suspected that she was pregnant when she began seeing Alan , but this was only confirmed when she had to go for a check-up because Alan had a urinal infection . |
| 8 | Her new liver took straight away but she had to go on a ventilator because she was having problems with her lungs . ’ |
| 9 | On Monday 27 February Fleischmann and Pons were due to bring their working cell to Brigham Young University for the neutron spectrum to be measured , but a graduate student had to go to a funeral and so they suggested it would be better to come at the end of the week instead . |
| 10 | Later , Clive had to go to a club and watch the Sergeant Major and some of his army mates . |
| 11 | Well she go Hilda got a baby boy about eighteen month old when I knew her like you know , and er she lived by I think it was I think it was you know and er what happened to her I be I think she had to go in a home or er you see and er baby boy was adopted like , the baby boy that 's about all I know about her that 's about all . |
| 12 | Getting back to the actual poem , I had to write about a subject that the ladies of the congregation could identify with , and as Tupperware is a household name , I got the inspiration to write ‘ The Hostess ’ It all started from there , and , like the product , has gone from strength to strength . |
| 13 | He knew he had to come to a decision before he went back down , he wanted to come to a decision before he went back down . |
| 14 | There one had to stand for a moment while one 's name was read out — then another little push — a curtsey and four steps forward to just below the Queen . |
| 15 | Our perambulations were interrupted now and again when other young friends with babies , hove in sight and , being infectious , we had to wave from a distance and hurry away from each other . |
| 16 | IN 1987 Labour 's local selection committee in this working class constituency had to choose between a rock and a hard place — either Hughes , a local Transport Union convenor with strong left-wing views , or the outsider , ‘ Red Ted ’ Knight from Lambeth . |
| 17 | He had to look through a window and see the girl dancing — but he could only look ‘ fierce ’ . ’ |
| 18 | While you were missing , I had to deal with a dog that had been run over . ’ |
| 19 | In particular they had to deal with a fire-bomb that might get lodged on the roof . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Both she and Patsy still had to sleep in a cot because their father had not bothered as yet to buy them each a proper bed . |
| 22 | We had to pay for it , so we had to send off a bill and therefore it knows what the price is . |
| 23 | We had to pay for it , so we had to send off a bill and therefore it knows what the price is . |
| 24 | This was partly to save money ( since an ambassador had to live in a style and with an expense which was not expected of lesser mortals ) and partly to minimise the risk of quarrels over precedence . |
| 25 | Was ashore in a cleft among the rocks there and the the lifeboat had to turn in a position that was just about twice her own length . |
| 26 | Each episode had to end with a cliff-hanger and repeat this at the start of the next episode . |
| 27 | You had to think of a method and the method was particularly difficult , I think , on the tank farm one where this is the sort of method that I am thinking here of how , how on earth am I going to build it on , on the hotel ? |
| 28 | no it was really New Town school children , because there was Forbert and Barnard 's school down the Old Town and that 's where the Old Town , all the Old Town people went , children went , so really Mark Hall was just New Town children you know , and then when , when we were eleven and had to go to another school we , er there was no comprehensive school in Harlow then , er we had to get on a bus and go to Chingford that was , did n't we ? |
| 29 | Then they had to stop for a rest because they were so tired . |
| 30 | She felt embarrassed about this when travelling around London with younger colleagues as they frequently had to resort to a taxi if no bus were available . |