Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] had [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When in position the confection obviously had to be protected from the effects of the sea water until the frogman had positioned the mine and was ready to ‘ an ’ it . |
| 2 | There was a lot more professionalism to his jumping as , travelling strongly throughout , the top weight only had to be shaken up after the last to beat previous winner Wellknown Character two and a half lengths . |
| 3 | Mr Koch soon had to back-track . |
| 4 | The rent still had to be paid and it was impossible to sell the lease with so much property available . |
| 5 | TRAINING Running costs had already been identified in the business plan although funds still had to be released officially from the health authority budget . |
| 6 | In fact , about the only contact Edward ever had with other people 's flesh was when the school maids , and then their friends from round about , began to share their sexual favours with him . |
| 7 | The non-renewal of ‘ intervention ’ against Afghanistan also had to be reliable and guaranteed . |
| 8 | Concentration now had to be aimed at the means of transporting the aircraft from the field to the carrier in Glasgow . |
| 9 | First , this study simply had to be controlled in scope . |
| 10 | The nature of the urban crisis , to which town planning was addressed , also changed in that housing solutions increasingly had to be prepared in recognition of public opinion . |
| 11 | Policewomen sometimes had to be called from other duties in order to deal with an incident which male colleagues felt incapable of handling . |
| 12 | It bubbled and spat through a layer of brown scum that stained the outside of the pan , but it smelt good , almost as good as the dinners Frankie sometimes had at school . |
| 13 | A claim for money generally had to be substantiated by evidence of careful planning , identification of areas of shortfall , prioritising and cost-effective exercises . |
| 14 | The myth of a Maronite majority thus had to be accepted by the Muslims for Lebanon 's ‘ democracy ’ to work . |
| 15 | That pretty girl just had to be Gaynor Summer 's sister , and , sure enough , that was where she went . |
| 16 | ‘ Willy Thorne , for example took part in a ProAm game at Alsager and insisted that one of the three charities who were to receive donations just had to be the Rainbow Trust and that meant £1,400 cheque . |
| 17 | ‘ What were known all over the world as ‘ English gardens ’ were the most pervasive influence that England ever had on the European way of life' , wrote Lord Clark . |
| 18 | The warden usually had under him foresters of fee , whose hereditary offices were subject to the usual feudal incidents . |
| 19 | Your shoes always had to be clean , brushed , you see ? |
| 20 | Because of the division of labour , work soon became the perpetual repetition of a simple task , or the minding of a machine ; such work often had to be done for fourteen hours a day , six days a week , and there were no special provisions for the women and very young children who were considered especially suitable for work in the textile industries . |
| 21 | In the UK , for example , economic expans-ions often had to be cut short by restrictive domestic policies as an increased demand for imports led to a deterioration in the balance of payments . |
| 22 | In his usual cold manner , Falkenhayn summed up the March results as follows : ‘ owing to the peculiar conformation we could not use these successes to bring our artillery far enough forward , and consequently the preparatory work here had to be continued . ’ |
| 23 | Under all this pressure , the council simply had to relent and change its policy . |
| 24 | The response of the defendants then had to be looked at . |
| 25 | As one friend notes : ‘ Sarah always had to be the best at everything . |
| 26 | Storerooms and chairs could be found anywhere but the cinematograph still had to be acquired as of course did the films themselves , which the writer did not even deign to mention . |
| 27 | It was the first image William ever had of rats , and an enduring one . |
| 28 | Benjamin and Elizabeth and their family belonged , in effect , to what we might choose to call the ‘ comfortable working class ’ ; they benefited from the general rise in Britain 's prosperity in Victorian times — cheaper food and clothing , better sanitation , faster transport , more substantial housing — but their money still had to be earned , had to be worked for . |
| 29 | I wondered whether it could be drugs — that a caddie perhaps had to be made privy to , because the golfer had to be topped up during the round . |
| 30 | The core of their problem was that such a device necessarily had to be a computer and a powerful one . |