Example sentences of "[adv] had [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I literally had to plunge into the abyss and find out what I could about what they were doing to me , or what they wanted me to do . |
| 2 | UK deregulation meant that the smaller , traditional banks suddenly had to compete on a global scale , and very few had the financial power necessary . |
| 3 | It was as she was approaching the last crest before the house came into sight that she suddenly had to stamp on the brakes as a Land Rover came pitching round the hillside . |
| 4 | So I naturally had to bear in mind the possibility that the jewel had not been stolen at all by any outside party , but ‘ caused to disappear ’ , let us say , by the Strattons themselves . |
| 5 | But we then took a view about , about future years because in a sense we 've always been , obviously had to provide for the er , year impression . |
| 6 | Oh yes , you only had to listen to this afternoon like , with the crowds and that , obviously it means a lot to them and there 's a lot of you know , stick I suppose goes around between the two clubs , so I just want to go out there , hopefully have a good game and keep a clean sheet . |
| 7 | However , due to insufficient financing , we not only had to ask for benefits , but also can not take on ourselves new obligations , as was done by the rest of the participants in the protocol . " |
| 8 | He could see that Lee was attracted to Meryl , and this amused him , because he knew instinctively that he only had to turn on his own powerful charm and the result would be a foregone conclusion . |
| 9 | The people there not only had to cope with the incidents themselves but living down the bad reputation . |
| 10 | So we 've er we felt that was we only had to cope with if the worst came to the worst . |
| 11 | In New York they were called an hour before the show opened , and once they had done their face make-up , they only had to put on tights rather than spend a long time carefully using wet white , which gave them longer to gossip . |
| 12 | We only had to wait for five minutes for the first boooooom … and a second … and a third . |
| 13 | She only had to wait till tonight , and she would get her answers . |
| 14 | But the England under-21 midfielder only had to wait until the 53rd minute to exact his revenge when he chipped in a telling cross for Goodman to score . |
| 15 | ‘ My part in this was easy compared to his ’ , North tapped out one night to McFarlane , talking about Poindexter 's handling of the pre-Tehran manoeuvrings ; ‘ I only had to deal with our enemies . |
| 16 | I only had to deal with a couple of vicious assaults over the telephone when the magazine I was writing for decided he was too dodgy to get involved with and , with mind-boggling nerve , he threatened us with legal action for breach of contract . |
| 17 | The Commission for the Transformation of the LCY not only had to contend with the opposing Slovene and Serbian proposals , but also with proposals that the party be reconstituted as a Socialist Party of Yugoslavia , or even split into a communist and a socialist party . |
| 18 | YOU only had to walk into the members ' lobby of the Commons yesterday to know what you 'd suspected for days . |
| 19 | It also meant he only had to walk across the Paddock when he went on night duty . ’ |
| 20 | I only had to think about asking her to go to bed when , rather reluctantly , she would go to her box under the kitchen table . |
| 21 | Oh , sometimes it was irritating , even downright infuriating to look round and see him just a couple of paces away , but she only had to look into those dark eyes to feel that treacherous quiver of desire deep in the pit of her stomach . |
| 22 | Goldberg I had known it would attack , he wrote , and sooner rather than later , the soil was ripe for the sprouting of concern , refugees , famine , the bomb , you only had to look at him , sentiment inevitable , despite my efforts , despite my scorn . |
| 23 | You only had to look at her greasy black hair , her insolent stare and her creased and spotted uniform . |
| 24 | ‘ You only had to look at the faces sitting around the table at base camp to know that they were physically and mentally finished . ’ |
| 25 | They only had to look at the floor of her cockpit to prove that . |
| 26 | Marcus did n't care what Wilson said , you only had to look at the guy . |
| 27 | Someone only had to look at me later on for me to get pregnant . ’ |
| 28 | Suddenly , people were suggesting charity records for every tragedy that occurred , and while money was raised for worthwhile causes , such as the survivors of the Bradford City fire or the sunken Herald Of Free Enterprise ferry , one only had to look at the ropier ideas for fund-raising to question the motives involved . |
| 29 | Erm Isaac Azimov writes er , rather amusingly about this , he says why did , why did Weismann bother , he said Weismann was Jewish , of course , Weismann knew that since time immemorial , er , Jewish little boys have been having their foreskins chopped off , Weismann only had to look at his own children , when they were born , to see that even Jewish little boys are born with foreskins . |
| 30 | When he started school , she only had to look after him before school started and after it finished , so she took on a part-time job as a lunch-time playground supervisor at the same school . |