Example sentences of "had [to-vb] in a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE new government had to draft in a hasty replacement to lead its delegation to the first annual meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development following the election defeat of overseas development minister Lynda Chalker . |
| 2 | Sadly , Fiji , unable to pay the travel bill , had to pull out of the tournament , while the organisers had to chip in a hefty contribution to secure the presence of the New Zealanders . |
| 3 | I just got a bit tipsy , that 's all , and had to sleep in a spare bedroom at the house . ’ |
| 4 | These were manned by guards whose only access to the towers was by way of a single rope which they had to climb in a gymnastic fashion ; they then pulled up the rope and remained in the towers for the rest of the shift . |
| 5 | I had to react in a split second , so I was a bit hurt to see the papers on Tuesday morning suggesting that my actions in that one second cost England the Test match . |
| 6 | To be a true professional , you had to live in a closed world . |
| 7 | This is understandable because the Gospels were written at a time when the Church had to exist in a Roman world . |
| 8 | Displaced from power , he had to toil in a humble farmhouse outside Florence . |
| 9 | The AE at such firms as these had to get in a minimum number of clients per week . |
| 10 | Kylie remembered : ‘ I had to speak in a Dutch accent which I was n't very good at . ’ |