Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President , congress I 've got ta up and say to you , I had , I 've had to borrow the wife 's glasses this morning cos I left mine in the car |
| 2 | This would have benefited some of the smaller parties in East Germany , such as the PDS and the German Social Union ( DSU — the small East German equivalent of the Bavarian Christian Social Union — CSU ) , since they would not have had to surmount the 5 per cent hurdle required under the West German system to gain representation . |
| 3 | I 've only had to carry a pistol once , just a few hours . |
| 4 | The previous day he had had to drive the route over and over until he knew it perfectly . |
| 5 | ‘ To gain access to the question of Being-on-drugs we have had to go the way of literature , ’ Avital Ronell proclaims . |
| 6 | The treatment continues when the children spend periodic time in hospital , but at Poppy 's local hospital , the Gloucestershire Royal at Gloucester , parents have had to continue the treatment themselves . |
| 7 | One of these was Lynn Bari , who has typically had to wait a few weeks after her death before receiving an obituary due her . |
| 8 | Certainly those who were in the square in 1387 hoping to see the completion of the Duomo would have had to wait a long time , far longer than the span of a human life . |
| 9 | At the beginning of the 1980 's a typeface would have cost around $4,500 and you would probably have had to wait a couple of weeks while it was digitised from some master copy . |
| 10 | Though Louis had had plenty of time to gain experience of ruling and to form a court of his own in the subkingdom of Aquitaine ( he had been king there since the age of three ) , he had had to wait a long time for his father 's inheritance . |
| 11 | ‘ I have had to wait a long time for the freedom , but it will be passed down and at least I can say that I was a Freeman of Chester . |
| 12 | I have had complaints from several enquirers who , not knowing our telephone extensions , have had to wait an inordinate length of time before being connected to the operator . |
| 13 | Lonrho and its shareholders , whatever the merits of their case , have had to wait an unconscionable time for the facts to be established . |
| 14 | Patients sought a declaration that the Secretary of State and health authorities were in breach of duty as they had had to wait an unreasonable time , because of a decision not to build a new block for a hospital on grounds of cost . |
| 15 | Cloners outside the Sparc International Executive Committee have been able to place orders since August and get at least sample quantities , but they reportedly have had to wait the ‘ industry average ’ of fourteen to eighteen weeks to get volumes . |
| 16 | She 'd had to wait the best part of a month at Holmsly Manor , and then everything had happened at once . |
| 17 | She was a hangover from the old days , when he had had to hustle the stuff himself . |
| 18 | He has had to carve a replacement . |
| 19 | He was politely apologetic at having had to cancel the day before . |
| 20 | The Cockney Rejects , peaceful chaps of the terraces , have had to cancel the rest of their tour due to the threat of violence at the gigs . |
| 21 | The Cockney Rejects , peaceful chaps of the terraces , have had to cancel the rest of their tour due to the threat of violence at the gigs . |
| 22 | Lewis 's manager , Frank Maloney , admitted : ‘ We have had to cancel the fight for the time being . |
| 23 | I pointed out that in practice determinist theories have always had to acknowledge a low level of predictive power for their causal variables . |
| 24 | I 'd once had to miss a rendezvous with him after he 'd done his own stripping vicar act for some giggling secretary 's twenty-first birthday and he 'd shot out of the pub stark bollock naked to find me somewhere else . |
| 25 | There is no question but that it would have involved tough chairmanship and I am convinced that the Minister — whom I should have expected to chair the conference — would have had to hit a few heads together . |
| 26 | I 've never had to arrange a funeral before . ’ |
| 27 | Until now he had never had to court the approval of the political elite , because his monopoly of legitimacy had made him irreplaceable . |
| 28 | I am sorry to say I have such a headache at this very moment because the thin winter light has faded outside the window and I have had to light a candle in order to get all this down in good time . |
| 29 | Local authorities have had to implement a controversial Act , involving a considerable increase of responsibility for them , at a time when the creation of the new social services departments preoccupied the child care and social work staff . |
| 30 | To excel in these areas , Keyence has had to cultivate an individualist meritocracy unlike that found in most Japanese companies . |