Example sentences of "[conj] had [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , when the controversial Shas leader and interior minister , Arye Deri , brought his conflict with Ms Aloni to a head by submitting his resignation on May 9th , it was Meretz that had to give way . |
| 2 | Yes , we had drivers that had to do sort of timed deliveries or whatever in the morning , and they , so basically that was the time . |
| 3 | The concept that social intervention could have effects unintended by the practitioners , and which could be revealed only by asking the clients for their subjective impressions , took a long time to achieve currency , and had to do battle with the time-honoured attitude in professional practice that the client could not be expected to know what he , or more usually she , wanted . |
| 4 | But however great the wife 's contribution , the order to her should not be out of proportion to the total assets and had to do justice between the parties . |
| 5 | This country was bankrupt , and had to borrow money from the United States of America to keep going , and er , Russia had just had a revolution and was still in chaos . |
| 6 | Finally run out of money and had to borrow train fare from Chamonix to Geneva . |
| 7 | Since then , for thirty-four years , she had lived a fairly unpleasant life as a result of the relocation of the ureter and had to take potassium tablets–to prevent her blood potassium level from becoming too low . |
| 8 | We had made good time and had to ease speed to avoid closing the island in darkness . |
| 9 | It was , however , more parasite than exploiter , and had to defend state property because this was the source of its power and income . |
| 10 | Coventry ( again ) were playing West Brom , West Brom were below us and had to beat coventry to stay up and send us down . |
| 11 | Parore had been heading down the leg side — too far , ex-Central Districts keeper Jack Vernon assured me later — and had to change direction . |
| 12 | There is so much of Keats that he admired — his pugnacity , his social concern , his gusto , his direct presentation of the moment 's phases of mind and moods of temperament — that one becomes aware of the impress of Thomas 's own mind and experience through his comments on Keats : ‘ Because he was then in the midst of his greatest period , and had to find vent for the pressure of poetry within him , he had to live away from Fanny Brawne , at Shanklin and Winchester : had he been near her long , at this time , love and poetry together , not to speak of the ‘ hateful literary chit-chat ’ of Hampstead , would have been insupportable . |
| 13 | Supply flights had to be made at night ; the aircraft had no radar or proper navigation equipment , could not get information even about the weather , and had to find drop zones in thick jungle by the light or smoke of bonfires . |
| 14 | By 12.30 we had just made the birch wood and had to admit defeat . |
| 15 | Traders/sellers found themselves having to sell more sophisticated goods to more sophisticated customers , and had to fine tune credit facilities designed to increase profitable trading to ensure they did not reduce it , let alone end it . |
| 16 | Two Southend players missed the team bus and had to fly north in time for kickoff . |
| 17 | Following modifications to the penal code in the wake of Sendero 's July offensive in Lima [ see p. 39002 ] , those arrested for terrorism were now considered " traitors to the fatherland " and had to stand trial before a military court . |
| 18 | Of course , during that time we run out of flour and had to get water and groceries . |
| 19 | Once his parents were able to reassure him that his mummy had been very ill for a while but now she was better but had to take medicine he became a much easier boy to handle and stopped urinating on the carpet . |