Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We got about six sentences too deep in our conversation for her to institute personal questions about my background , without appearing offensive ( she had to treat me as a person now and not a peon ) , even for Asians who delight in asking pertinent questions as to age , income , etc. , unthinkable for more backward Europeans . |
| 2 | The police had to tow him to a lay-by or something , or to the side cos erm it just cut out and that was it ! |
| 3 | You were n't allowed to have a hearse , you had to carry them to the church , and er er we used to b bury them by lamp light . |
| 4 | I had to carry her over the wall , can you imagine , to get her to my rooms . |
| 5 | I fell down in a kind of madness , and they had to carry me from the room . |
| 6 | a very able man in business matters , but unfortunately lame ; he had to support himself on a crutch , in addition to which the dark glasses he wore to hide some defect in his eyes , did not improve his appearance ; altogether it always struck me that the prominence of position he seemed to claim was undesirable . |
| 7 | Anyway today we had the scene where Matt had to hit me with the paddle sort of semi-accidentally . |
| 8 | And then , suddenly , I had to see him as a MAN — my husband ! |
| 9 | I had to isolate her from the rest . ’ |
| 10 | There may be economies in using higher educational facilities as locations for events and academics as consultants ; and some of these resources may be cheaper than they would be if the company had to provide them as a call on the payload . |
| 11 | Now , somehow holding a piton with his useless hand , he had to hammer it into the rock with the other . |
| 12 | Spid I remember when me and my Mum had to catch one in a fishing net and throw it down the toilet cos my Dad were n't there and it was about that big ! |
| 13 | She frequently had to pinch herself with the absurdity of it all . |
| 14 | Finally , he had to hide her in a cellar . |
| 15 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 16 | The cylinders were causing minor explosions and we had to tackle it from the outside , using the protection of adjoining buildings and cars . |
| 17 | They had to choose someone for the launching ceremony and our child 's name was first out of the hat . |
| 18 | Teri has given up going to New Year 's Eve parties after she had to lock herself in the kitchen with loads of middle aged ladies hammering on the door . |
| 19 | On the range , the men had to familiarize themselves with every form of weapon including German and Italian ones . |
| 20 | ( I had a meeting of an advisory committee at the Bodleian at three , which was likely to be acrimonious and prolonged , and I simply had to buy something for the boys ' dinner first . ) |
| 21 | He had to identify himself from the pavement . |
| 22 | In the beginning an arm-band was all we had to identify us with an assortment of weapons , not enough ammunition , and not really knowing what our role was . |
| 23 | Now , cos I mean do n't forget originally we used to take milk out twice a day , morning and night , because you had to fetch it from the farm . |
| 24 | in the information so we had to we had to assume one for the purpose of public consultation but we said that the final decision on standards would be taken er in another time . |
| 25 | Other companies have had similar troubles : Clerical Medical had to rid itself of an agent which was writing unauthorised business ; a Legal & General agent . |
| 26 | He tipped up her chin so she had to look him in the eyes but she pulled her face away . |
| 27 | Anyone who handled the King 's money was ‘ charged ’ with the revenues he had received or collected and had to acquit himself before the Barons of the Exchequer by showing what he had done with it . |
| 28 | They had to help me into the house and let me rest in a chair . |
| 29 | When we 'd see these old people , we had to help them in every way , we were taught to do that . ’ |
| 30 | Streets which had looked short on the map seemed endless when one had to walk them with a suitcase . |