Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [pers pn] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Well , you had to give it to the kid for determination .
4 ‘ I had to take her to the polo .
5 Two of my other men came running over and they had to pin me to the ground .
6 She only had to make it to the airlock , seal the inner door behind her and wait … .
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