Example sentences of "[pron] had [to-vb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to carry on walking . |
| 2 | Quite apart from the sheer mystery of all that I had to behold on arrival at an up-to-date operational station . |
| 3 | I had to stand on tiptoe to reach the brass knocker , which had appeared since the previous day . |
| 4 | I believe what you believe , that God came down to Mary , who was a virgin , in the form of a dove — or was that to her mother , so that Mary could get pregnant and be an immaculate conception , which had to happen on account of how sex is so polluting , and give birth to Jesus ? |
| 5 | No matter how bad the storm was she had to go on deck , where at least the air was clean . |
| 6 | Paula Yates , for instance , admits in an interview in Woman magazine that she is so thin that she had to put on weight before she could become pregnant . |
| 7 | She had to stand on tiptoe to reach the stamp-machine . |
| 8 | She had to stand on tiptoe to reach his lips . |
| 9 | Apologies for those who had to sit on plastic seats . |
| 10 | Would you have difficulties if your tank burst and you had to claim on insurance for the resulting damage to furniture and fittings ? |
| 11 | You had to go on Governor 's app [ put in an application to the Governor ] to ask to get your toenails cut . |
| 12 | We were afraid , but we had to go on shore . |
| 13 | We had a hard physical test one morning , which comprised part of our ‘ Certificat Technique Élémentaire ’ , the exam we had to pass on completion of basic training . |
| 14 | The people who lived there had to rely on rainwater , which in the summer was often inadequate . |
| 15 | But when they were switched on they blew the main fuses , which deprived them of lighting for the day and taught them why they had to rely on coal fires . |
| 16 | In practice , like Richards , they had to rely on intuition rather than analysis , or at best on the consensus of experienced readers , a consensus which , the recent history of criticism seems to suggest , is not all that often achieved . |
| 17 | Yes and then being with government people , they had to go on trek |
| 18 | The lawyers commented that the Minister was giving detainees the message that if they wanted their demand for freedom to be taken seriously they had to go on hunger strike and become very ill . |
| 19 | They had to follow on foot during campaigns . |
| 20 | One suburban Anglican church in Surrey , England discovered on doing this exercise that they had to gain on average thirty-four new members each year just to stay where they were in terms of membership , such was the high level of mobility in their community . |
| 21 | The cold of the ground slowly seeped through Riven 's bedroll to chill his back , and he edged closer to the fire , sick of the aches in his bones and counting out in his mind the hours before he had to go on watch . |