Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We got about six sentences too deep in our conversation for her to institute personal questions about my background , without appearing offensive ( she had to treat me as a person now and not a peon ) , even for Asians who delight in asking pertinent questions as to age , income , etc. , unthinkable for more backward Europeans . |
| 2 | The police had to tow him to a lay-by or something , or to the side cos erm it just cut out and that was it ! |
| 3 | You were n't allowed to have a hearse , you had to carry them to the church , and er er we used to b bury them by lamp light . |
| 4 | I had to carry her over the wall , can you imagine , to get her to my rooms . |
| 5 | I fell down in a kind of madness , and they had to carry me from the room . |
| 6 | Anyway today we had the scene where Matt had to hit me with the paddle sort of semi-accidentally . |
| 7 | And then , suddenly , I had to see him as a MAN — my husband ! |
| 8 | I had to isolate her from the rest . ’ |
| 9 | There may be economies in using higher educational facilities as locations for events and academics as consultants ; and some of these resources may be cheaper than they would be if the company had to provide them as a call on the payload . |
| 10 | Now , somehow holding a piton with his useless hand , he had to hammer it into the rock with the other . |
| 11 | Finally , he had to hide her in a cellar . |
| 12 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 13 | The cylinders were causing minor explosions and we had to tackle it from the outside , using the protection of adjoining buildings and cars . |
| 14 | In the beginning an arm-band was all we had to identify us with an assortment of weapons , not enough ammunition , and not really knowing what our role was . |
| 15 | Now , cos I mean do n't forget originally we used to take milk out twice a day , morning and night , because you had to fetch it from the farm . |
| 16 | They had to help me into the house and let me rest in a chair . |
| 17 | When we 'd see these old people , we had to help them in every way , we were taught to do that . ’ |
| 18 | Streets which had looked short on the map seemed endless when one had to walk them with a suitcase . |
| 19 | Friends took her home , but they then had to chase her down the street as she fled from her flat . |
| 20 | Dick and the nurses told him that , even after the pre-med , they had to chase him round the ward to get him to remove his shorts . |
| 21 | Well , you had to give it to the kid for determination . |
| 22 | Well again , I , I , I had to do it as a kid but I did n't afterwards but er , I er , tell you about this chap and I even went back and told him . |
| 23 | You had to do it through a priest . |
| 24 | I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure . |
| 25 | Six months ago Teresa Leinin had to put them on a plane to the United States after the High Court ordered they must be sent back to their American father . |
| 26 | ‘ I did n't know I had to put it on the meat — ’ |
| 27 | I had to put it on the floor to work the door bar and once I had it open , I slid it out with my foot . |
| 28 | And I had to put it on the seat of my bicycle , push it all the way and it 'd be a good mile from Street to right across from . |
| 29 | Obviously he had to put it in a letter . |
| 30 | King Francis became so rotten that when they took his corpse to St Denis they had to put it in a lead coffin . |