Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apologies for those who had to sit on plastic seats . |
| 2 | The three who had to go to school in the morning went to bed . |
| 3 | He was saved from sinking even lower by the balm of a journey he made in an open cart to Zweeloo with his landlord , who had to go to the market in Assen . |
| 4 | But she did n't envy people who had to go to school . |
| 5 | The businessmen travelled , of course , in the first-class carriages , dividing easily into groups so that compartments were made up between more or less particular cronies … any wife or daughter who had to go to Manchester by one of those trains always travelled third ; to share a compartment with the ‘ gentlemen ’ ( we were taught never to call them just plainly ‘ men ’ ) would have been unthinkable . |
| 6 | Lorna was a late substitute for Ewan Cameron ( now Northern regional sales centre ) who had to go to Skye on business . |
| 7 | It was the Winnipeg agent who had to go among them arguing ( he was Scotch too , and they could not quite understand it ) on the impropriety of dislocating the company 's traffic . |
| 8 | This was partly for ease of administration by the development officers who had to take into account the cost of all the services received by the elderly person when designing a package of care , but primarily because this was a new initiative : by enabling the development officers to take on difficult and complex cases without being unduly restricted by considerations of cost , it was hoped to test the limits to this form of community care . |
| 9 | Special mention has to be made of staff serving the Regional Chambers and headquarters who had to cope with more than the usual pressure ! ’ |
| 10 | The Maya were an agricultural people who had to contend with a capricious climate . |
| 11 | I Branches without women rivals now sided with Glasgow in demanding a campaign to exclude women for good , while branches such as Edinburgh , who had to contend with the problem , tried to go on arguing for some form of recognition of women workers . |
| 12 | Watt , who had to withdraw from the loose-head prop berth for last weekend 's Paris international on account of a ‘ viral complaint ’ , has had a series of tests under the care of the SRU 's honorary surgeon , Donald MacLeod , and they will continue when he sees another specialist on Monday . |
| 13 | In so far as the system worked — some disputes were settled , some crimes fully atoned for — it did so because it accommodated to the plastic and multifarious notions of justice obtaining within a small group of men , known to each other from youth up , often related by marriage , who had to reckon on continuing to live as neighbours after the case was over . |
| 14 | Similar decisions were reached in the cases involving hole in the heart babies who had to wait for treatment because of a shortage of trained specialist nursing staff . |
| 15 | Heather Courtley , whose son was the patient who had to wait for an hour , said she was not reassured . |
| 16 | They were n't like other infantry , drilled to stand in line and fight until they fell or fled , but skirmishers , men of judgment and initiative , who had to decide for themselves when to fire , advance , retreat , surrender , or die . |
| 17 | Above right : British hopeful Ben Moon , who had to settle for fifth place . |
| 18 | He always pitied people who had to ask for information . |
| 19 | In the second case she judged the problem of a woman who had to choose between a mature knight of complete probity and a young man devoid of worth . |
| 20 | Labour 's transport spokesman , Mr John Prescott said the salary was a ‘ kick in the teeth ’ for railway workers who had to resort to industrial action to get an 8.8 per cent rise during the summer . |
| 21 | Kenny Milne , who had to deal with the vagaries of a vicious swirl when he threw in at the lineout , thought that the Hastings ' boot was the big difference between the games against France and Wales . |
| 22 | Mr Mellor is no soft touch , as those within the industry who had to negotiate with him quickly discovered , but he is accessible to reason , and that is itself a great advance on what had been experienced before . |
| 23 | RODNEY ONTONG , 33 , the former Glamorgan captain , who had to retire from the game after a car crash , is to sue the county for damages in his benefit year . |
| 24 | It was those at the bottom of the social pile , without contacts or Western goods to deal with , who had to submit to the ordeal . |
| 25 | Walter Greenwood portrayed an old age pensioner in the 1930s who had to live on sixpence a day after he had paid his rent . |
| 26 | Those who had to live with the legacy of Cold War did not necessarily have a future that was any clearer or simpler than those who inherited the remains of Hitler 's Europe four and a half decades earlier . |
| 27 | After an intensive rehabilitation programme of physiotherapy and speech therapy , Elinor appeared to have completely recovered from her stroke , although she could no longer think of three things at once , which Buzz said was a mercy for the people who had to live with her . |
| 28 | It was time they stopped designing buildings without a thought for the people who had to live in them , he said . |
| 29 | It was he who had to listen to how the clients could never get through on the telephone , how they were chased by debt collectors even when they had paid , how they could not find up to the minute share prices , etc . |
| 30 | And the worst of it all was , Kate was the one who had to listen to the old sod ! |