Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [adv prt] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence the study had to fall back on a proxy for measures of ill health — standardised mortality ratios ( SMRs ) or death rates from different diseases standardised by age . |
| 2 | Everyone crowded in and Maria had to sit up on the ledge of the window to be seen and heard . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She had to sit down on the ground . |
| 5 | I were just so psyched up on Wednesday and then I had to go in on the Friday before so I did n't |
| 6 | Thus all rations for the men at the front had to come up on the backs of other men . |
| 7 | Baby Jesus was real poor , so he had to grow up on a farm and that , and when he got bigger he went round with some friends telling everyone about God , and then he died . |
| 8 | The pot was taller than a man , and a prisoner had to climb up on a table in order to extract a sample with a huge ladle . |
| 9 | He just had to turn up on the day . |
| 10 | And you had to get out on the floor that catered for your particular dominant moral propensity , and stay there for the whole of Eternity . |
| 11 | So you 're doing exactly what we were telling you to do a few weeks ago , that you had to er take money out of reserves or you had to cut down on the level of services if you were to avoid putting that thirty four pounds on the council tax bills this year . |