Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [adv] with the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It would take about an hour and a half to fix and heat up the oven ; and , of course , once it was started we had to carry on with the job of re-tyring .
2 Someone had to go round with the coals , wash up , sweep , scrub , polish , fetch and carry .
3 Clive had to have them , because the competition did , but since the benefits were at best indirect he had to come up with the idea of asking the students from each country to get together and prepare a ‘ typical national dish ’ .
4 She had to chow down with the others in the common-room now she was mobile .
5 What they allowed themselves to find had to fit logically with the knowledge about sewers they had acquired in the first half of the lesson .
6 One also supplied a report entitled ‘ Pan Am Flight 103 ’ , prepared in January 1989 by the intelligence unit of the Lebanese Forces , which had to do mainly with the substance of intercepted telephone calls to and from the Iranian Embassy in Beirut .
7 On the contrary , there was attempts to the life of our Emir during the Iraq/Iran war because we were taking relatively trying to be neutral there , and there was a bomb attack on him , and he personally survived it , a few others died , and it had to do directly with the Iran/Iraq war .
8 ‘ He 'd been out of football for nine months in France , and he had to put up with the boo-ing .
9 So he just had to put up with the noise .
10 We had to put up with the traffic .
11 He had been ten weeks in the bush , a womanless bush , and Olga Stych had to put up with the fact .
12 ‘ Ah — your wife had to go out , so you had to stay home with the children ? ’
13 He would have preferred a spinning wheel for her to sit at , but one had to move forward with the times .
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