Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone had to go round with the coals , wash up , sweep , scrub , polish , fetch and carry . |
| 2 | She remembered how she had n't been allowed to hold him for more than a moment before he had to go back behind the bars of his crib . |
| 3 | Thus all rations for the men at the front had to come up on the backs of other men . |
| 4 | She had to chow down with the others in the common-room now she was mobile . |
| 5 | After two exhausting hours we had to give in to the flames . |
| 6 | He also had to watch out for the bears that pounced on you if you stepped on the lines in the pavement , and the killer bats that hung upside down in the shadows under the roof of the railway arch , and the rats that came out of the cracks in the brickwork and infected you with their deadly diseases simply by breathing out into the same air that you breathed in . |
| 7 | At teatime , there was honey , sour-milk scones and plum jam where you had to mind out for the stones . |
| 8 | But he would not countenance a " Party within a Party , " and the NAC had to face up to the consequences of maintaining a separate party in Parliament . |
| 9 | and on Friday , on that Friday Mother used to go to Eastwood Hall to collect the er er the wages that my Father had to pay out to the men . |
| 10 | I just had to sign on at the police station once a week — no surety , unopposed bail , no problem at all . |
| 11 | I had to make up for the ravages of time . |