Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Spencer had to phone Lord Charles for details of the memorial service , and he asked his solicitor to send her a fax . |
| 2 | Ewan had to allow control to pass from himself to his a.i. |
| 3 | Laughton had to spend time at Iro 's press conference fending off questions about Leeds ' next targets . |
| 4 | Hardy had to pay £75 towards the cost of printing a first edition of 500 copies . |
| 5 | It 's much the same attitude that meant Darlington fans at Torquay last Saturday had to pay £6 to stand behind the goal , a quid more than the home crowd . |
| 6 | Woody had to cross Maurice , Grace and Dreadnought to rejoin Rochester . |
| 7 | Ellen had to take Jed to casualty to have a cut above his eye stitched , as poor Prune was too upset to do it . |
| 8 | Since France was pro-Egyptian and Britain 's fleets were otherwise engaged , the Sultan had to ask Russia for more than diplomatic assistance . |
| 9 | So that he ca n't see what 's going on , cos she thinks if he do n't see what 's going on he wo n't bark , but he cries but I mean she should n't have them there , she 's never here so she should n't have them , I mean look at the trouble Alan had to get Jessie , because they worked , but Emma goes home every lunch time to see to Jessie from the bank , but I mean the woman one of them would n't let her have a dog , one kennels , which is how it should be , but I mean this one breed those three herself so , yeah I mean if you breed dogs yourself and you have three in the house of the same breed , what the hell do you want an alsatian for , as well but the whole point is she do n't have them as enjoyment , she do n't have them as company |
| 10 | Washington had to take account of the approach of a British general election — either in 1959 or 1960 . |
| 11 | Such were the tolerant conditions still prevailing that the Left Communists were able to publish their own journal — Kommunist — and Lenin had to argue policy questions with them publicly ; just as had been the case over the Brest Litovsk peace treaty . |
| 12 | All except Lord Diplock ( and in this he positively disagreed ) held that the GLC had to have regard , when making a grant , to the LTE 's obligation to run its operations so far as practicable , on a break-even basis ; so the GLC could make grants to the LTE only to make good unavoidable losses and not to further a particular social policy . |
| 13 | The easiest part is to work out what would happen to the waters of the lake itself ; but for this , Dr Hollis had to pool information on rainfall , evaporation , the flow and salinity of the rivers , and the level , volume , and salinity of the lake , over as many years as possible ( in practice thirty ) and feed this into a computer . |
| 14 | But there were sourer feelings at Glasgow , which came out as Scotland 's second research institution , lagging significantly behind its main rival in the capital , and Aberdeen had to receive support from the funding ‘ safety net , ’ designed to avoid a reduction in this year 's budget . |
| 15 | Early in 1066 they were reluctant to accept Harold Godwinsson as their new king , and he and Bishop Wulfstan II of Worcester had to visit York to conciliate them , whereupon the Northumbrians overcame their reluctance to be associated with southern softness — an attitude not uncommon in the north even today . |
| 16 | EFTA simply had to try to keep pace with its rival : when the EEC , for example , accelerated its timetable for tariff cuts in May 1960 , EFTA had to follow suit with its own revised programme the following February , simply to keep in step with the EEC . |
| 17 | They walked slowly , for Ruth had to negotiate Lilian 's pushchair up and down each kerb , and as they walked , they talked . |
| 18 | To qualify to play Karpov , Short had to beat Boris Gelfand , another product of the Soviet school , who refused to allow Praedrag Nikolic of Yugoslavia , his previous opponent , a time out for a family funeral . |
| 19 | And then she ran upstairs and grabbed the other phone and Fred had to put phone down cos she would n't shut up . |
| 20 | Nehemiah rebuilt Jerusalem , as Themistocles had to rebuild Athens . |
| 21 | Even in a co-operative relationship , Soviet military capacity was still " the most significant factor " of which NATO had to take account in maintaining the European military balance . |
| 22 | Also Bryan Robson had to have stiches after being attacked after going to Cantona 's assistance . |
| 23 | UNTIL John Whitaker had to scratch Henderson Milton with last-minute lameness a week ago , the 1992 Volvo World Cup final in Del Mar had been billed as the ‘ duel of the World Cup champions ’ — Milton 's rival in this ‘ shoot-out ’ being Canadian Ian Millar 's Big Ben , the first horse to win the World Cup twice , in 1988 and 1989 . |
| 24 | Eventually Owen had to summon Yussuf . |
| 25 | The request ( 5:1 ) : this seems less than the whole truth ; but it is in the nature of a test-case , Israel had to leave Egypt in order to sacrifice because the nature of their sacrifice was offensive to the Egyptians ( 8:26 ) . |
| 26 | The line was cluttered with background noise , and Jed had to ask Creed to repeat the address several times . |
| 27 | And with Northumbria there , even half-manned at her borders , Cumbria had to keep guard . |
| 28 | It was not the only time Poindexter had to shut North up : partly because North genuinely did not know how widely the secret was known , but partly because he could hardly resist it anyway . |
| 29 | Second Coxswain O'Donnell had to reduce engine power to avoid the second two line parting , and with the engines at slow speed the bow of the casualty fell off the wind another 20° and she began rolling heavily again . |
| 30 | His father died suddenly and Swindin had to leave school and start work at the age of fourteen to help support the family . |