Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 2 | Gardener John Tobin , of Speke , who had to wait an extra day for his £160-weekly wage , said : ‘ It 's a disgrace . ’ |
| 3 | It had to provide a solid base for review articles and monographs devoted to the exposure of ‘ bourgeois falsifications ’ emanating from the West . |
| 4 | The low headroom on the staircase meant that we had to find a sensible height for the border by doing a ‘ dry ’ run without cutting any material from the roll ( an assistant is invaluable for this ) . |
| 5 | If he showed them the latest Washington telegram which he had seen before his departure [ KPs 66 and 85 ] , they would have been made aware that although they had to exercise the utmost restraint for the time being , a new and firmer policy might soon be adopted . |
| 6 | In the postwar economy , still beset by shortages of materials , and particularly of steel , the BEA , like the pre-nationalisation industry , had to fight a continuing battle for resources with Sir Edwin Plowden 's Central Economic Planning Staff and ultimately with the Cabinet . |
| 7 | Officially , he was supposed to have escaped by sliding down bedsheets from an upper window , but the truth is that CNN 's vice president , Ed Turner — no relation to Ted Turner — had to pay a hefty ransom for him . |
| 8 | For instance , there was no prescription charge for diabetes sufferers although people with cystic fibrosis had to pay the full amount for their drugs . |
| 9 | The King 's Men had to have a new play for a special day like that . |
| 10 | He had to have a new battery for it , and two of the tyres were n't legal . |
| 11 | If you were asked which club it was , you just had to have a good reason for choosing it . |
| 12 | A pot of coffee was spilled , and Sara had to get a damp cloth for the trousers of one of the visitors , who was involved in an unwise pretense that he had n't actually been asleep . |
| 13 | Went across and started up it , had to stop every three minutes for puffs . |
| 14 | She does n't get a newspaper and had to ask the social security for new shoes for the two children at school where their last pair of trainers got holes . |
| 15 | He considered this for a short time and concluded that he had to make a public stand for those things which he believed . |
| 16 | Susan , once the excitement of Christmas was over , had completely collapsed , and it was Breeze who had to make the final arrangements for selling 9 Dorchester Terrace , and the auctioning of the furniture . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , to receive their Urban Programme funding , they had to produce an annual programme for submission to the Department of the Environment . |