Example sentences of "had [to-vb] on [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would take about an hour and a half to fix and heat up the oven ; and , of course , once it was started we had to carry on with the job of re-tyring . |
| 2 | But , nevertheless , for me eternity was not now , and I had to go on into the future and in this world . |
| 3 | This was not the moment to tell Ingrid to strain less in her upper registers , or to remind Luiza to allow plenty of time when she had to walk on in the ball scene . |
| 4 | She just had to hold on to the thought that , although he believed he knew who , he did n't know where . |
| 5 | Chris had to hold on to the grab handle of the jeep or she would have been flung out . |
| 6 | We had to get on to the barge before these two characters unwittingly alerted the army sentries across the road , or before the Friends of the Tourists turned up looking for us . |
| 7 | I just had to sign on at the police station once a week — no surety , unopposed bail , no problem at all . |