Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [to-vb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My baby had to remain at the nursing home , as I had no one to look after him , and he was not admitted into hospital because of whooping-cough in the nursery there . |
| 2 | Dozens of beleagured businessmen in the midst of a painful recession were due to hear Michael Hesletine speak at this conference in Oxfordshire , but the President of the Board of Trade had to cancel at the last minute and the delegates instead got a DTi stand-in . |
| 3 | In many cases the actual amount of information given in the recalls was minimal , limited to whether a subject had to wait at the junction and whether there was other traffic around at the time . |
| 4 | The knight had to swerve at the last moment to avoid a head-on collision with his opponent , but at the same time he had to couch his lance to his side as tightly as possible with his hand and under his arm so that the lance blow was struck with all the weight and momentum of his horse behind it , for if in swerving aside he moved his hand or used his arm to thrust at his opponent then a blow delivered in this manner would have no effect whatever . |
| 5 | Read what the movement 's spokesman had to say at the time . |
| 6 | Reshuffling its North America operations is , ZDS officials say , ‘ part of an effort to make the firm more responsive to the personal computer Unix-based market worldwide … the company had to start at the heart of the problem the bureaucracy in the company . ’ |
| 7 | The tank had to go at the end of the little landing . |