Example sentences of "[adv] had [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Factories no longer had to generate their own electricity ; more of them were willing to invest in electrical machinery when they could draw on central power supplies .
2 She knew what she wanted to learn and she knew where it was ; she just had to shovel it all into her head .
3 I mean we 're not allowed as many holidays as , as most of them , but then again it was starting up so we just had to take it that way .
4 He still had to put his own words on this blank sheet in front of him .
5 Those two were going to give her the creeps if she really had to take them all the way to Titan .
6 He was a pragmatic loner from first to last , and by now had devised his own answer to the student chestnut ‘ Who will do the dirty work under socialism ? ’ :
7 They moved into a second floor flat , so Dawn now had to run her own home and travel to work each day .
8 I even had to loan him some more to get out of Nicaragua .
9 They could devote only very little of their time to the affairs of the BDDA , and until 1922 even had to pay their own expenses .
10 But the Russians of Torpedo Moscow hit back when Igor Chuganov beat Peter Schmeichel , who two years ago had led his former club Brondby to penalty glory in the same stadium .
11 Any family could join in provided they had the money and were not Jewish — racism thrived tolerably well in meritocratic suburbia where Jews sometimes had to form their own clubs .
12 putting folk there and come back , and putting them and coming back and he then he did , that was four loads he would have had you see and then had to take them all back home again .
13 But Mr Tomlinson then had to build his own chassis for the tractor , another job which is n't done in an afternoon .
14 I again had to find my own place .
15 And you actually had to maintain your own
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