Example sentences of "we had [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We worked with two pens in the one hand , one for black ink and one for red , and at each weather station we had to draw in the symbols for wind speed and direction , barometric pressure , temperature , cloud type , amount and height , and precipitation , all in black , and the wet bulb temperature and dew point in red . |
| 2 | We had to sit in the waiting room with everyone else . |
| 3 | We had to sit in the shade out the road a bit |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When we were four and five we had to sleep in the afternoons on long mats made of shiny grass that left ribbing marks on our skin . |
| 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 | Then we had to go to the banks and change our covenants , which were based on TI 's net tangible assets , which in turn were damaged by the write-off . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Annoyingly , youngsters were playing games in the lifts , and we had to resort to the stairs . |
| 15 | No Met nor Notam information was displayed , and we had to ask for the Met before filing our flight-plan to Santiago . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | we had , we had to swim to the bottom and do like a handstand |
| 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 | We had to withdraw into the hills , taking the civilian population with us . |
| 21 | So , no sooner did the record go into the charts and we were going ‘ yeah , this is it — hooray — we 're taking off ’ , they dropped the record and we had to wait for the guys to come back to earth . |
| 22 | We had to wait for the police and the doctor to certify what had happened . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 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 | But as the water rose we had to break through the roof to escape . ’ |
| 27 | Well we had to discuss on the way home in the car that it would be better to have parish council meetings during the day rather than the evening . |
| 28 | I am short of cover up front but we had to look to the future . ’ |
| 29 | For how many years have we been told it 's tax payers ' money do you remember Maggie and the tax payers ' money , it 's like this animal somewhere called the tax payer but it came out of the wall as if we were n't one of them and that we had to look after the tax payers ' money . |
| 30 | The most exciting part was when we had to jump into the water from a 12ft high board . |