Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [pron] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bobby Kennedy declared Sinatra 's home a security risk , and the President had to cancel his stay at the Sinatra mansion . |
| 2 | She had to work her way up the system again , but decided to stay a rung below that which she had previously reached . |
| 3 | Last year 's winner Jordan Knight of New Kids On The Block not only had to accept his slide from the peak of female adulation , but also had to present Mark Owen ( of Take That ) with this year 's trophy . |
| 4 | The government had to increase its grant to the Arts Council in order to replace at least part of the subsidies these county authorities had paid to support cultural activities . |
| 5 | She lugged her case up the wrong stairway , came out facing the open lough , had to find her way around the superstructure . |
| 6 | They had to pick their way around the rest of it , because the floors were mainly gone , although some big holes still had carpet laid across them . |
| 7 | In addition the fact that it had to be paid in cash meant that the farmers had to sell their crop to the grain-dealer and then often enough borrow money from the money lender . |
| 8 | The team 's ball-item ( ‘ Sugar and Spice ’ ) would be the one in which they had to deposit their balls at the back of the stage , jump , turn and move downstage . |
| 9 | When construction , or rather demolition began , thousands of people had to wend their way through the mud and debris to get from their homes in the south of the city to their work in the north or to the shops and market . |
| 10 | I had to cover my nose against the terrible stench and just wished my master would finish the business . |
| 11 | He had to resign his seat.Then in the mid-80s , he found favour with Mrs. Thatcher , who felt his uncomplicated , cheer-leading brand of Conservatism and thrusting , go-getting style was just the ticket to rally the troops . |
| 12 | Schools , in many cases with little preparation or warning , now had to redesign their curricula for the 11–16 age group . |
| 13 | She was so far gone that Joey had to help her walk across the field to where he had parked . |
| 14 | But he took such duties seriously ; he often had to give his opinion on the work of young poets who were about to be dispatched into the war : and he knew that his comments might be the last they ever received . |
| 15 | The traffic began to move again at that point , though , and to Jessamy 's relief he had to give his attention to the road ahead . |
| 16 | THE DEATH of two pet dogs from cancer was one of the factors which convinced a family they had to leave their home near the Sellafield nuclear processing plant in Cumbria , a High Court judge was told yesterday . |
| 17 | Many people had to leave their homes in the clothes they were wearing and had lost everything . |
| 18 | Operators and management still had to use their understanding of the process to control it . |
| 19 | Using only his whole hand , he had to dissect his dumpling with the edge of the fork . |
| 20 | For Angela Allen had to abandon her vigil at the bedside of 10-month-old Laura in a Birmingham hospital to return to her St Helens home where her husband had been found dead in bed . |
| 21 | They had to extend their knowledge of the behaviour of soft metals , learn to interpret complicated machine drawings , gain new machine shop skills , and accept the discipline of working as part of a team . |
| 22 | And a lot of times , particularly after shooting in the east , they were cut off from getting to Damascus so they had to put their tapes on the boat to Larnaca and up-link it from Cyprus . |
| 23 | Soon the bodies began to pile up here , too , and yet again the Collector and his men had to put their shoulders to the carnal barricade to prevent it from being ejected into the hall ; and yet again , as if in a dream , the Collector found his face an inch from that of an amused sepoy and thought : " It surely ca n't be the same man ! " for from this corpse 's moustache there was also a scent of patchouli . |
| 24 | ‘ Very overrated , ’ he kept saying , and soon they were laughing so much that they had to put their heads beneath the blankets to stifle the noise , in case the farmer and his wife wondered at their hilarity . |
| 25 | Still , he 's a married man , and his wife is in her seventh month , from what I hear : that 's why she had to send her apologies at the last moment … |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the king had to send his justices to the clergy 's deliberations and threatened to take the names of opposers , and it took all Winchelsey 's good will and best arts to elicit from them a grant of one tenth for the current year and another , should it be necessary , in the following year . |
| 27 | ’ Pilinski had to redraw his copy of the old and valuable original because he could not paste the original on his block and engrave through it . |
| 28 | He joked : ‘ In England , if you were sent to a rugby league match at Batley on a night you had to park your car on the touch line and leave the headlights on and hope the players would run into the beam of light so you could get a picture . |
| 29 | Society had to consider its attitude to the ‘ new men ’ — the manufacturers — and also to the pressures of organized labour . |
| 30 | But Katie confesses that she had to forget their friendship in the heat of the battle . |