Example sentences of "[adv] had [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I naturally had to bear in mind the possibility that the jewel had not been stolen at all by any outside party , but ‘ caused to disappear ’ , let us say , by the Strattons themselves . |
| 2 | Then one day , before breakfast , I found her in the sitting room , and no longer had to rely on hearsay . |
| 3 | ‘ How ? ’ she just had to ask for clarification . |
| 4 | It 's not often that I can say a piece of equipment is inspiring , but reviewing the A2 actually got me coming up with some ideas that I just had to get on tape . |
| 5 | I just had to stay at home for a bit . |
| 6 | She was no giver-in , but sometimes she got very high temperatures and just had to stay in bed . |
| 7 | The scheme , which still had to go before parliament , had the backing of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development . |
| 8 | The scheme , which still had to go before parliament , had the backing of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development . |
| 9 | In short , a European parliament still had to come into existence . |
| 10 | Coal and flour supplies still had to come by cart , the flour deliveries to Cheltenham being transported by a three horse team and covered wagon . |
| 11 | She had a lovely sweet voice , and always had to sing without piano accompaniment , for she alone knew the songs . |
| 12 | Stanley also had to cope with epilepsy , a fairly common complication following a stroke . |
| 13 | I still found the argument extraordinary , but I also had to take into account the fact that if Nigel retained this stance then the committee meeting would have to be postponed and the whole exercise would get off to a terrible start . |
| 14 | She also had to bow to pressure from colleagues and permit Cabinet discussion of economic strategy in 1982 and to abandon Cabinet discussion in September 1982 of the paper from the Central Policy Review staff about the implications of the rising trend of public expenditure and its proposals for curbing welfare spending ( see above p. 213 ) . |
| 15 | Men with malaria now had to go on patrol . |
| 16 | We were afraid , but we often had to go on shore to get more water . |
| 17 | In order to arrive off difficult coastlines in daylight we often had to sail at night from the Outer Isles . |
| 18 | A teacher from an urban school , discussing the reasons for a recent teachers ' strike , said that not only were salaries low when the amount of time worked outside classroom hours was taken into account , but also teachers often had to pay for classroom materials out of their own pockets , if they wanted to have any . |
| 19 | So I simply had to walk on stage after an extended interval and tell the audience we would have to end the performance . |
| 20 | They immediately had to dive for cover , however , as the Germans had set up a pair of machine guns in front of the doors behind hastily piled crates . |
| 21 | The Serbian Volunteers were a force recruited under the puppet government of Gen Nedic to serve Serbian interests , although this meant that they frequently had to act in concert with the Germans . |
| 22 | Alexander ‘ I am in control ’ Haig , Nixon 's last national security assistant , was quoted as saying that he sometimes had to act as president when ‘ Nixon was drunk . ’ |
| 23 | you got yo would have to take and hour or take two hours , or take three hours and if you take up to three hours or if you got three separate hours that was detention and if we were in our in the junior part of the school in the first three forms erm , you then had to go into school on Saturday morning . |
| 24 | He then had to stay in prison for two months while a schedule of his debt was prepared , he was examined by the court and he agreed to surrender his property . |