Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was during the filming of the opening titles for the last ‘ Marti ’ series for the B.B.C. Dressed in a red chiffon evening gown , high heels and lead-weighted knickers , I had to sit on a rock at the bottom of a tank full of sharks , smiling and brushing my hair , while Duncan swam past with a plywood plaice bearing the immortal words ‘ End of Part One ’ ( it could have been the end of several parts ! ) . |
| 2 | One of us had to sit on the floor of the phone box while the other stood up and rested on the shelf where you open out the directories . |
| 3 | Gedanken had to sit in a seat opposite Chris Parker . |
| 4 | We had to sit in the shade out the road a bit |
| 5 | She had to drive to the end of the street to turn round ; when she passed Giles 's house on the way back the door was closed . |
| 6 | Faced with the threat of losing its Parliamentary representatives the NAC had to agree to a plebiscite of the membership on the issue . |
| 7 | The Easter Rising in Dublin and the government 's abortive plan to rush through a Home Rule settlement caused an even greater furore ; this time Bonar Law had to agree to a meeting of the Central Council , but only alter the cabinet had dropped the Home Rule idea , and with a stipulation in advance that questions would be allowed but not resolutions . |
| 8 | A man in Chippenham , Wilts , had to clamber on the roof of his car after being marooned by floods . |
| 9 | But they had to wait for a host of their rivals to commit pop suicide before they could begin the job of moulding this new discovery . |
| 10 | We had to wait for an hour for our connection to Frankfurt . |
| 11 | To prepare this article I had to wait for an event on a day when the visibility was gin-clear to get good photographs from my open cockpit Jodel D9 , using a telephoto lens at various focal lengths to obtain the required framing . |
| 12 | Firemen had to wait for the mains to be turned off before engineers could cap the broken pipe . |
| 13 | Firefighters had to wait for the mains to be turned off before engineers could cap the broken pipe in Swindon . |
| 14 | He beat fellow American and world No 5 Michael Chang 7–5 , 6–2 , but had to wait for the result of the final round robin match in his group between big-hitters Goran Ivanisevic and Richard Krajicek to see if he would get through to the semi-finals of this last ranking competition of the year . |
| 15 | Change had to wait for the coming of the postwar years . |
| 16 | And then , anyone who owed less than £200 had to wait for the start of the next law term in another four months if he wished to apply for the discharge which would come upon his delivering his whole property to the single creditor who had stayed with the process as long as that . |
| 17 | The decorative potential of ivory and its pleasant feel were first explored by Upper Palaeolithic man , but more sophisticated uses of the material had to wait on the development of more complex societies marked by more or less pronounced hierarchies . |
| 18 | From there we went in a funny little train with open trucks which fascinated Tim , until we got to a railway junction where we had to wait on the station for some hours for another train to take us to Calcutta . |
| 19 | Substantial supplies had to wait on the mining of reefs first found as late as 1880 outcropping on the Tawmaw plateau . |
| 20 | The British had to wait until the end of the 1930s for that luxury . |
| 21 | These repairs had to wait until the time of Haymo of Hythe , or as he was to be known as Haymo of Hythe . |
| 22 | They believed I had to report to a camp near Dover . |
| 23 | He had to report to the headmaster at four o'clock , and was taken there by force by Foggerty who caught him racing for the school gates when the bell went . |
| 24 | In one very vivid dream , I remember being shot in the lower back and although it was only a dream we had to swim under a sort of submerged wall in order to escape . ’ |
| 25 | Unfortunately , ’ she went on , her voice heavy with sarcasm , ‘ he never actually got round to marrying my mother so , on top of everything else , she had to cope with the stigma of an illegitimate child . ’ |
| 26 | During a career that started with junk TV through small film roles to her current stardom , Michelle also had to cope with the breakup of her marriage to Peter Horton , the star of American TV show Thirtysomething , which is now screened in Britain . |
| 27 | Anyone with a spark of humanity would want to help a poor girl left defenceless and hard up , especially when she had to cope with the rearing of a young child , single handed . |
| 28 | After three years , during which he had to cope with the death of his youngest son , Mr Mathew was denied leave to appeal against the March 1984 judgment . |
| 29 | Karadjordje had to contend with a group of strong-willed oligarchs who enjoyed considerable power within their own territories and who jealously guarded the various perquisites which they had acquired , such as the levying of ferry tolls and local taxes . |
| 30 | The Tri-star jet was two hours late on take-off from Heathrow , and then had to abort on the runway at lift-off point due to a sudden failure of one of the engines . |