Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [pers pn] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 ! |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Well , you had to give it to the kid for determination . |
5 | We used the police telephone boxes when we were locking somebody up and you had to handcuff them to a railing while you rang up for the van . |
6 | ‘ I had to take her to the polo . |
7 | In the end I had to take it to a skid pan to see how far it would go before it eventually lost its cool The answer was as far as its steering lock would allow . |
8 | Two of my other men came running over and they had to pin me to the ground . |
9 | And up in the cellar , after the shooting , we had to make them to a brace like that , a cockerel and a hen . |
10 | She only had to make it to the airlock , seal the inner door behind her and wait … . |