Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | BABY-SITTER Joyce Cotton had to call the fire brigade when she got stuck in her own front room after putting her twin grandchildren to bed upstairs . |
| 2 | In the canon at the 7th given in Example 37 Bach had to change the intervals of the following , or ‘ consequent ’ , voice . |
| 3 | The president was looking for at least a four or five-year breathing space before the United States had to confront the implications of a sterling crisis and a British withdrawal from East of Suez . |
| 4 | Like exponents of the argument from design in earlier generations , Paley had to confront the fact that some species possessed structures that were useful for the killing of prey . |
| 5 | InterCity had to solve the problem of getting its passengers from Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury and chose to do so by hiring a bus rather than paying another railway sector to do the job . |
| 6 | First Tupac Amaru had to watch the torture of his son and uncle and other associates before his wife 's tongue was cut out and she was slowly garrotted . |
| 7 | The goalkeeper 's punch was indecisive and Wright had to clear the danger . |
| 8 | As the opening production was Gypsy Baron , where Ingrid was taking the lead and Therese had to play the role of an eighteen-year-old village maiden , it was n't hard to guess what most of the jokes were about . |
| 9 | To achieve this end , Sir Edward had to overcome the parochial instincts of many teachers who felt , with some justification , that no Whitehall mandarin or local authority bureaucrat could possibly understand the problems or needs of the particular children they were teaching . |
| 10 | You will recall that when we talked about the libido theory , I said that there were erm different one of the reasons why Freud had to introduce the libido theory was he wanted to get away from the narrow biological reproductive concept of sex to do with genitals and reproduction which is of course he 'd want to expand it to include psychological never seen before er or never seen before so clearly , such as erm love of the self and , and this he gave the name narcissism , well he did n't actually , somebody else invented it not long before and he took it over very quickly . |
| 11 | And eventually Cornelius had to put the headlights on . |
| 12 | As Alan had to enter the site as part of his job , he lacked the necessary degree of voluntariness necessary for the defence . |
| 13 | As well as his usual diet , Alan had to consume the following each day : |
| 14 | In the case of public transport Mackintosh ( 1987 ) shows very clearly for London Transport in the early 1980s that politicians from the GLC had to challenge the market-based arguments of the bureaucrats in order to increase subsidy to keep fares down and maintain services . |
| 15 | Lock forward Bayfield had to leave the pitch while playing for Northampton after suffering an asthma attack . |
| 16 | As well as her tights , Jane had to bear the cost of tipping the callboy and dresser every week . |
| 17 | Jane had to master the eye make-up of the day . |
| 18 | Still rubbing away at the counter , Maggie had to resist the desire to turn round and bring the wet cloth across the beautiful face to the side of her . |
| 19 | At one gig in Melbourne the crowd invaded the stage in such numbers that LIAM had to stop the show and lead the uninvited participants off in an orderly line . |
| 20 | Given the policy of explicit discrimination against Asians and constraints on foreign ownership , SOEs had to fill the gap . |
| 21 | The Lancasters had to drop the bouncing bomb from precisely sixty feet to hit their target . |
| 22 | The Lancasters had to drop the bouncing bomb from precisely sixty feet to hit their target . |
| 23 | In the meantime , however , Gen Keightley had to consider the possibility that 5 Corps would be unable to prevent the Army Group E forces entering Austria . |
| 24 | She had understood that Frank had to have the bike . |
| 25 | In his last adventure Pete had to rescue the beautiful Princess Petal from the evil clutches of the monster Terradawn.And with your help he managed to do it . |
| 26 | No developments were reported on LBC that morning , and Loretta had to switch the radio off when her friends arrived for lunch . |
| 27 | Only last week PC David Iceton had to quit the force because of severe neck and back injuries inflicted when a patrol car was rammed by car crooks . |
| 28 | Ironically , Clough 's own kid Nigel had to undergo the same perpetual ultra-critical appraisal of his skills before the Forest manager would accept the striker as a player first and a member of the family second . |
| 29 | Palace went to Reading and poor Dick Graham had to pick the ball out of our net no less than 10 times as Palace slumped to our highest scoring League defeat . |
| 30 | He says that Danny De Vito had to feed the penguins — no they did n't bite him , they do n't bite ! |