Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pers pn] had [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well we went on a course , for a week up Newcastle and of course er erm we had to be there for nine o'clock so we had to catch the bus , at the latest half past eight so you 're up at you 're up at seven and you get showered and what have you cos there 's a shower in the be bedroom get yourself all ready so you 're down by about erm half seven , quarter to eight , like so you tend to think quarter of an hour to the erm bus stop which is right outside the door of the hotel we were getting so and we use the bus rather than take the car in daily , cos it 's easier so I and er and of course I sat down and had a breakfast and I thoroughly enjo , I did n't have any cereals you know , I says well er and I had a little bit of orange orange juice , but it was this erm made up orange juice |
| 2 | Eight so if you had to explain to her about fractions , how could you tell her about what 's what is it all |
| 3 | Still , he had until two o'clock before he had to go into the College — today was the day he did evening teaching . |
| 4 | It was not long before we had to try our swords , as the billhooks had become , on something real and so a row of perfectly harmless Brussels Sprouts were decapitated . |
| 5 | They had four days together before they had to leave for Estoril and the pre-race qualifying sessions , and by the end of them Kate had to admit that the naïve dreams she 'd had of becoming irresistible to this man were exactly that , and extremely unrealistic into the bargain . |
| 6 | He said the Government had failed to understand the depth of feeling amongst unionists , especially as they had to share the council chamber with Sinn Fein . |
| 7 | Only when he had to stare straight into it did he flinch ; it was not , his face said , a pretty sight . |
| 8 | David Speedy 's goal enough to get all three points for Leicester and I think on the balance of play they just about edged it but Forest put up a marvellous performance in the second half especially when they had to make er changes and things did n't go well for them . |
| 9 | Anyone with a spark of humanity would want to help a poor girl left defenceless and hard up , especially when she had to cope with the rearing of a young child , single handed . |
| 10 | Ingrid was in fact twenty-nine , which was young compared with Gesner , but not young for a dancer and she found the routines rather a strain , especially when she had to sing at the end of them . |
| 11 | He wrote out all the lyrics phonetically , so when he had to sing an Italian word , it was written down exactly as it should be pronounced . |
| 12 | That shop that we went in when we had to go down stairs . |
| 13 | Their clothes were locked away so they had to remain in the dormitory . |
| 14 | ‘ Not if I had to face a helicopter journey every time I wanted to come into town , ’ he drawled , and then slowly lowered his gaze to her red mouth , murmuring , ‘ So … do you want to see the bedrooms ? ’ |
| 15 | In the pilot scheme , the centre 's staff took about 20 hours to compile one chart , largely because it had to do much of the cartography by hand . |
| 16 | Just because she had to leave a meeting suddenly did not mean she would relinquish her authority . |
| 17 | Mr but like I pretended I had to go and see him not because I had to go and see him just because I did n't wan na go to assembly really ! |
| 18 | They first hit on this method because they were suddenly deprived of their darkroom , shortly before they had to prepare a show . |
| 19 | There were things to be said and asked , things they both needed to understand , but she was n't inclined to risk such a potentially traumatic discussion now , so shortly before she had to go out and be both professional and sociable . |
| 20 | They could forgive this young man , just as we had to forgive the man who failed to secure his trailer , or they could allow bitterness to completely neutralise everything God was doing in their lives . |
| 21 | It had to go south of the Slieve Bloom mountains , on the southern rim of the central depression , just as it had to go north of the Ballyhoura mountains , seventy miles farther to the southwest . |
| 22 | Just as she had to accept that , for her , it would never be enough . |
| 23 | It happened like this : last Saturday , after the farewell party at Nanking University , I came back to the hotel , and packed my things ready to leave for Shanghai , then about 10.30 I started to feel sick , and it got worse and worse and went on and on until I had to wake up Comrade Wu at about 3.30 and ask her to get a doctor . |
| 24 | And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round . |
| 25 | I came in yesterday cos I had to decorate it so that er get it tiled , and get it furnished and |
| 26 | I can excuse him for yesterday as he had to leave at the start of the second half to appear on Question of Sport : - ) . |
| 27 | Once when he had to play a matinée at the Old Vic , for instance , in Hamlet , scarcely offstage for a moment , there was a Welsh International match . |
| 28 | other things had gone up so they had to put the fares up , but I mean that 's , you can nae tell me that that 's right |
| 29 | One third of them also admitted they would drive more carefully if they had to buy their own cars and pay all the running and repair costs . |
| 30 | so their charges would go up if you had to have a contingency fund ? |