Example sentences of "had [to-vb] it [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , somehow holding a piton with his useless hand , he had to hammer it into the rock with the other . |
| 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 | The cylinders were causing minor explosions and we had to tackle it from the outside , using the protection of adjoining buildings and cars . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Well , you had to give it to the kid for determination . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't know I had to put it on the meat — ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Started to make some biscuits and then read the recipe afterwards and she had to put it in the fridge for twenty four hours in the , the pastry in the fridge so they could n't make the biscuits , there I 'm sitting here expecting erm , a biscuit and nothing came , dear , it was n't one of those recipes that you could make it straight away was it ? |
| 11 | And then they decide , found out they had to put it in the fridge for twenty four hours , so there was I sitting there expecting a biscuit , I did n't get one . |
| 12 | When you used anything , you had to put it in the Book . |
| 13 | And you had to put it in the letter box , you dare n't leave it in the in the . |
| 14 | The only problem was that every time he let the dog off the lead it tried to provide itself with a sheep supper , so consequently he had to keep it on the lead and feed it on tins of beans , sausages , bacon and egg , which had so exhausted his stock of food that now he was living on porridge and giving the dog the rest of his sausages . |
| 15 | The strap is a strong rubber one but I found I had to overtighten it at the surface , otherwise it became loose when my drysuit seal compressed at depth . |
| 16 | Well , you had to flash it in the doorway , and they 'd see it in any case . |
| 17 | The poor little cat had never got over its terror of flying , and Mildred always had to prise it from the broomstick whenever she arrived anywhere . |
| 18 | I had to shout it above the noise of the engine . |
| 19 | Well it should n't it it did i but if you just went up to the top they got a pair of I should think about four or five lengths they had to take it off the sprocket and er course you see they |
| 20 | but I never had anything , I just went from one to the another , and I had to take it in the hall one day and I was n't , I was never very good at maths anyway , not that kind of maths . |
| 21 | ’ You had to take it from the inspector , you ca n't answer back . |
| 22 | She only had to make it to the airlock , seal the inner door behind her and wait … . |