Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] 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 | On erm food and noise , we 're still very , very busy indeed , and our figure for noise inspection is higher than it ever has been before , and the comment that was made under that section will show you that some of that most certainly is the amount of work that the team had to carry out during the summer , one of the benefits of our glorious summer is that most of us slept with our windows fully open for three months or more and one of the dis-benefits was that if anybody else down the road had a party that went beyond normal bed-time , everybody shared that , and our team was very busy in consequence . |
| 3 | Everyone crowded in and Maria had to sit up on the ledge of the window to be seen and heard . |
| 4 | He had to sit out in the corridor at Windsor listening to Electrophone transmissions of some opera that went on and on before the warblers saw fit to die with some interminable aria . |
| 5 | When she got to the top of the staircase and Mr Browning had gone back inside his apartment , she suddenly felt so ill she had to sit down on the stone step and compose herself before going on . |
| 6 | She had to sit down on the ground . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , I had to go up into the roof and push down the ballcock when things went wrong . |
| 8 | Mark Cameron ( 1987 ) felt that the knot symbolized possession by a man , a token of the collective sacred marriage which all young people had to go through as the culmination of their initiation sequence . |
| 9 | Someone had to go round with the coals , wash up , sweep , scrub , polish , fetch and carry . |
| 10 | These cottage front doors were never used — some even had rows of flowerpots across the sill as a deterrent — and Anna had to go round to the back to find a resting place for the magazine . |
| 11 | But , nevertheless , for me eternity was not now , and I had to go on into the future and in this world . |
| 12 | Especially if it meant he had to go out into the dark . |
| 13 | ‘ Because I only found the portrait — I was only able to identify the man in her diary when I had to go out to the cottage last Saturday . |
| 14 | And they fought the fire until they were finally er had to go out of the tower altogether . |
| 15 | had to go out in the road ! |
| 16 | A teacher , again in a Southall primary school , told of an ‘ amusing ’ incident when an Indian girl of ten was reduced to tears when she had to go out in the sun in the summer term . |
| 17 | Nell Anderson said it , knowing that it was hopeless , that Delaney would — had to go down to the engine room . |
| 18 | Sarah was kept busy replenishing dishes , and every time she had to go down to the kitchen she was afraid of missing the Reverend Morey , but he appeared last of all . |
| 19 | ‘ The Welsh name for the bridge over there , ’ said Beuno , gesturing , ‘ means ‘ the place where the milk was spilt ’ because one year the nuns ' cow went dry and they had to go down to the village to beg for some , and they got this far and then one of them dropped it . ’ |
| 20 | Then I had to go down to the station to get somebody and by the time I came back , most of the stuff had gone . |
| 21 | Had to go back to the school — had to sit amongst the probationers , and then after the school , he was posted right from one side of the city to the other . |
| 22 | Then again for reasons of established cultural preference we had to go back to the Audit Commission and ask them to translate £6.358 million into ‘ real men ’ , for we had difficulty in trying to sell such an alien concept to the police mind . |
| 23 | She had to go back to the theatre and see this thing through , for tonight , at least . |
| 24 | Galerie de la Scala fared so well with a mixture of French , North European and Italian drawings , priced at FFr 20,000–350,000 , not always by famous names but always in exquisite taste , that they had to go back to the gallery for more . |
| 25 | The jackets had to go back to the sweatshop , making for an unnecessary and annoying delay . |
| 26 | After lunch we did a bit more skiing and then we had to go back to the hotel . |
| 27 | Resuming at the short fourth hole , he promptly took a double bogey five , leaving a bunker shot in the sand , and then following it with a six at the fifth , where he hooked into some bushes and had to go back to the tee . |
| 28 | I had to go back to the room , as if I needed to tell the place where I lived of my feeling . |
| 29 | had to go back to the doctor |
| 30 | So I thanked Mr. Lennis for his frankness , explained that I had to go back to the bank to deal with some work , and departed . |