Example sentences of "[adv] had [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took a last look round , then only had to kick the top edge of the kite up a little for it to take the wind and lift . |
| 2 | She only had to have the usual amount of arms and legs and to be able to see where she was going . |
| 3 | ‘ You just had to find the right path , did n't you , my lass . |
| 4 | This was precisely the position in the case , referred to earlier , of Varley v. Whipp , where at the time of the contract the seller still had to acquire the second-hand reaping machine which he was agreeing to sell . |
| 5 | The aim of the reform was to provide the government with a stable source of revenue , as agriculture still had to provide the major part of government income . |
| 6 | That , however , did not mean that the clause necessarily gave the sellers a valid defence because the clause still had to satisfy the recent legislation on exemption clauses ( see further , paragraph 10–21 below ) . |
| 7 | But I still had to pay the new increase like ! |
| 8 | She still had to repay the Social Fund loan . |
| 9 | I once had to have the gnomic response of one respected editor of a major journal interpreted for me by a senior colleague . |
| 10 | And so we very nearly had to write the unusual story of the inaugural air mail flight that flew without the air mail . |
| 11 | In his judgment , Mr Justice Knox suggested that the practice was based on an incorrect interpretation of the law , and that the company disposing of the old asset also had to acquire the new asset . |
| 12 | I polished the steel with bath-brick ; and I also had to do the morning-room stove . |
| 13 | The refinements also had to cover the new forms of broadcasting . |
| 14 | Combining the public relations exercise of showing herself to her people with the need to exhibit her legal powers , she set off on court circuits or justice eyres which inevitably had to include the crime-ridden Borders . |
| 15 | Apart from the aircraft involved in military operations , the civil aviation community now had to serve the major centres — if it could — by new rules . |
| 16 | In the last exercise you learnt that to remove a number from one side of an equation you simply had to do the opposite or reverse operation to both sides . |
| 17 | There were some women who simply had to take the unfortunate literally to their breast . |
| 18 | Merchants trading overseas had to cover the diplomatic and even military expenses which in later centuries would be met by their governments . |
| 19 | Brian then had to face the full force of the Sutherland-Anderson fact-finding machine on his own . |
| 20 | Since I therefore had to exclude the neuro-muscular contribution the player makes , I knew that a computer model would only take us far . |