Example sentences of "we had [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had to sit a three hour paper of questions about all our three years work in Sociology . |
| 2 | If we had to cite a bad point , it would be the hard-to-reach drain plug on the rear axle housing . |
| 3 | ‘ One was we had to take an international outlook rather than being a purely British company . |
| 4 | It was on a trip to Frankfurt with a mixed load of several 2,000lb bombs and the varied load of experimental PFF flares and early target indicator devices ; Bennett always insisted that we had to carry a full load of the hurtful . |
| 5 | The way the vehicle was hit , there was one person in the back so we had to do a 3-door conversion and made a 2-door car into a 3 , so it took longer . |
| 6 | We had to do a three hour |
| 7 | when they wore thin on the end and we had to put a new link in we never threw the two halves of the link away , we pointed them and made them into staples . |
| 8 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
| 9 | Before before we could get nationalization , we had to get a Labour government . |
| 10 | First we had to find a new propeller and this was delivered by Sam , an engineer from Technical Branch , who made a record marathon run in his tiny van from Southampton to join us at Oban . |
| 11 | We had to find a proper bin to chuck it in . |
| 12 | The low headroom on the staircase meant that we had to find a sensible height for the border by doing a ‘ dry ’ run without cutting any material from the roll ( an assistant is invaluable for this ) . |
| 13 | ‘ But we were producing so much effluent it flooded and we had to rent a small piece of land specifically for effluent disposal , ’ explained Dai . |
| 14 | We had to climb a classic route on Ben Nevis and our ice axe braking , step cutting and navigation skills were all tested . |
| 15 | He says we had to climb an imaginary ladder . |
| 16 | You think about it , it 's never , I mean we had to have a special fire door put on cos our we go through to our garage . |
| 17 | We knew we had to have a women-only group . |
| 18 | We had to make a forced landing at Jever Luftwaffe Air Base just a few seconds in front of two Tornados on finals , making the runway a little slippy with the last few drops of oil leaking out of our crankcase . |
| 19 | Well , we had to make a better road through the forest , although I see through the window that it 's grown up a bit recently . |
| 20 | ‘ We came to that point in our school career when we had to study a foreign language . |