Example sentences of "we had [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had to sit in the waiting room with everyone else . |
| 2 | We had to sit in the shade out the road a bit |
| 3 | Every instinct and all the forces in political democracy were against the surrender of sovereignty , but we had to move down the road towards accepting it . |
| 4 | We had to move into the capital afterwards , because we feared they would come back to look for my husband and I began to suffer from my nerves , thinking about all I had seen.They killed my husband in the end , in 1982 . |
| 5 | our construction but the only to get there we had to squeeze through a gap this way and come round |
| 6 | Our perambulations were interrupted now and again when other young friends with babies , hove in sight and , being infectious , we had to wave from a distance and hurry away from each other . |
| 7 | except for odd occasions in the winter when we had to go into the gym and dance with the birds ! ’ |
| 8 | By and large , the war passed us by in Baldersdale , although we had to go through the business of putting black-out curtains at all the windows , even though all the light we had was from oil lamps . |
| 9 | So we had to go to the park where we had met under the protective shade of a friendly tree . |
| 10 | That 's when the sirens went and we had to go to the shelter . |
| 11 | Now he might remember I think the court come just before the after Nicola , and the car was going to because I know we had to go on the train to Liverpool and er , I 'd got ta give evidence as well , they made such a palaver ! |
| 12 | We had to go from the School to the School for two years and back to the School again , and er finally we 'd go to the Academy . |
| 13 | No Met nor Notam information was displayed , and we had to ask for the Met before filing our flight-plan to Santiago . |
| 14 | We had to take our own meals at all times , even when we had cups of tea we had to take to the station our own tea , sugar and milk , but there was always a large kettle during the winter months on a coal fire , and during the summer months on a gas ring . |
| 15 | In one very vivid dream , I remember being shot in the lower back and although it was only a dream we had to swim under a sort of submerged wall in order to escape . ’ |
| 16 | we had , we had to swim to the bottom and do like a handstand |
| 17 | Each campesino had been given instructions to always have ready 20 extra tortillas in case we had to leave at a moment 's notice , but even so , it was very hard . |
| 18 | He grumbled incessantly about the ‘ disgusting ’ provincial life we had to lead on the island . |
| 19 | We had to flee to the church refuge here . |
| 20 | Half way along we had to stop for a couple of hours because the ‘ road ’ had been washed away and the people who were travelling had to clear it . |
| 21 | Well that was the , the erm union for us , erm I think erm one of the great assets of being in public transport was that we were in a local erm pension scheme , erm when , when we in the office started , we had to wait until we were eighteen and then we had to wait for a vacancy because there was a limited number of people that the Council were prepared to back by paying a similar amount . |
| 22 | So we 'd fill them and we could n't see anyway , lookin We could n't look down and see , we had to wait for the foreman shouting all the instructions , move left , forward or up or down . |
| 23 | We had to wait for an hour for our connection to Frankfurt . |
| 24 | From there we went in a funny little train with open trucks which fascinated Tim , until we got to a railway junction where we had to wait on the station for some hours for another train to take us to Calcutta . |
| 25 | Oh , we had to wait at the border , we had in advance to get visas , and when we got there , things were very simple but nonetheless , we were very well received , and the person that I was staying with , lived in a flat , a very simple flat , but nonetheless , a very pleasant flat . |
| 26 | If it was n't that we had to develop from an egg in every generation , I do n't think that kind of conservatism would be observed . |
| 27 | We had to pay for it , so we had to send off a bill and therefore it knows what the price is . |
| 28 | We had to pay for it , so we had to send off a bill and therefore it knows what the price is . |
| 29 | no it was really New Town school children , because there was Forbert and Barnard 's school down the Old Town and that 's where the Old Town , all the Old Town people went , children went , so really Mark Hall was just New Town children you know , and then when , when we were eleven and had to go to another school we , er there was no comprehensive school in Harlow then , er we had to get on a bus and go to Chingford that was , did n't we ? |
| 30 | But as the water rose we had to break through the roof to escape . ’ |