Example sentences of "[adv] had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And he always had a pot of linseed and black Spanish , and we always had to have a drink of this , cos he thought it was fantastic . |
| 32 | ‘ I would hate it to go down in Conservative mythology that we always had to have a gaggle of young men running every campaign , ’ he said , ‘ although if we had the same bunch at the next election at least they 'd be a few years older . ’ |
| 33 | Medieval travellers usually had to pick a way over boggy ground as they came off the hills . |
| 34 | It was Morse himself , too , who at 8.30 p.m. had called a halt to everything . |
| 35 | His brothers certainly were not as they formed a conspiratorial circle round Mike in the other corner of the yard , which all at once had become a boxing ring . |
| 36 | I once had to have a leg replaced when a couple of Hunters tore mine off . |
| 37 | Following from Richard and Jenny erm , they both had to attend a meeting in Dublin but it 's with absolutely no other alternative . |
| 38 | The company also had made a lot of new product introductions , he added . |
| 39 | We also had to do a navigation test . |
| 40 | Culturally , the Palestinian Jews had to face the increasing differentiation of the diaspora , both in Mesopotamia and in Egypt ; they also had to run a state efficiently within a Hellenistic — milieu . |
| 41 | Mrs McNeil also had to pay a quarter . |
| 42 | The judge also had to consider a submission made by the mother that the return of the children ( if ordered ) would expose them to a ‘ grave risk of physical or psychological harm or place them in an intolerable situation ’ within the terms of paragraph ( b ) of article 13 . |
| 43 | He had a point there , his reluctant listener admitted , Rose probably had kept a key . |
| 44 | He probably had to make a phone call or something , Ronni decided , her eyes following him as he disappeared inside . |
| 45 | Bunny was frowning ; the woman , who the night before had worn a bow in her hair , stared obliquely at Meredith . |
| 46 | ‘ At first he did n't believe us but when he realised we really had found a baby and came back with us to have a look . ’ |
| 47 | Councillors , who had grown up and learnt their politics in a labour movement founded on the dominance of Sheffield 's skilled workers in the steel and engineering industries , now had to formulate a response as this dominance quite literally crumbled to the ground . |
| 48 | We now had to create a manufacturing improvement strategy to let us do it . |
| 49 | The old African prohibition of multiplying sites of popular devotion to legions of homemade martyrs was turned inside out : every altar now had to have a martyr 's relic beneath it . |
| 50 | Mr O'Connor said the campaign so far had taken a lot of time and effort , with mixed results . |
| 51 | I even had to cancel a team match on the Sunday , but I thought it would be well worth it with so much at stake . |
| 52 | Not bad for a first international race and the Liphook company director never even had to change a wheel . |
| 53 | ‘ I simply had to have a break . |
| 54 | I rudely announced to my wife Claudia that I simply had to have a baby by the time I was 35 . |
| 55 | Locals simply had to slot a tag and step through the gate . |
| 56 | As more and more stone-filled gabions were built in to reduce the erosion which the scheme had set in train , it became apparent that Pandora 's box had been opened , and that what might have worked as a piece of traditional river canalization in the cohesive sediments found downstream had proved a recipe for disaster when applied in the unstable gravels of this upland brook . |
| 57 | Afterwards Jacques Poos , the Luxembourg Foreign Minister , declared that President Gorbachev said that " he would continue on the path to reform even if he sometimes had to take a detour " . |
| 58 | In one shop I virtually had to drag a sales assistant away from his pressing chat with a colleague to help me . |
| 59 | They then had to hitch a lift back to the cars . |
| 60 | Silvia had stuck to her promises for the first couple of days , but then had followed a catalogue of excuses and cancelled lessons that had left Ronni feeling angry and on edge . |