Example sentences of "they had [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My responsibilities vanished but I think they suspected that if I were sacked there would be a public fuss so they had to proceed by stealth . |
| 2 | It was not so bad for a privileged minority , though even they had to do without modem medicine , and childbirth was highly risky for women . |
| 3 | That bag of vagabonds had to grasp what they had to do in order to get there , which included discipline . |
| 4 | But when they were switched on they blew the main fuses , which deprived them of lighting for the day and taught them why they had to rely on coal fires . |
| 5 | In practice , like Richards , they had to rely on intuition rather than analysis , or at best on the consensus of experienced readers , a consensus which , the recent history of criticism seems to suggest , is not all that often achieved . |
| 6 | That was all they were , and they had to go through life like that . |
| 7 | Yes and then being with government people , they had to go on trek |
| 8 | The lawyers commented that the Minister was giving detainees the message that if they wanted their demand for freedom to be taken seriously they had to go on hunger strike and become very ill . |
| 9 | Even in my limited experience I had seen people falling in and out of love , as though , soiled by sorrow and loss , they had to go in search of comfort from one used and lukewarm bath to another . |
| 10 | well I expect if it was a church school they had to put in appearance odd times . |
| 11 | WIMBLEDON 'S Crazy Gang are returning to Plough Lane , the happy hunting ground they had to leave for safety reasons two years ago . |
| 12 | So , I mean , er it 's the proof old folks that get it , they got it in the war time , they had to starve in war time to feed their children . |
| 13 | Nor was the Treasury convinced by the repeated arguments for the costly increases in police manpower which most Home Secretaries felt they had to secure in order to demonstrate their credibility . |
| 14 | I did n't know what it was , and they had to play in-between bingo sets . |
| 15 | They had to follow on foot during campaigns . |
| 16 | Central banks agreed to buy or sell unlimited amounts of currency at points 1 per cent either side of their established par values , although the mere fact that they were prepared and willing to do this was often sufficient to limit the extent to which they had to intervene in practice . |
| 17 | In essence , these created rebates on contributions to occupational schemes and reduced the requirements they had to meet in order to be officially ‘ approved ’ . |
| 18 | They had to walk to Valley Station to the train unless their people could afford to buy them bicycles . |
| 19 | They had to work alongside deputy heads and postholders who also had managerial responsibilities , some of which overlapped considerably with their own . |
| 20 | One suburban Anglican church in Surrey , England discovered on doing this exercise that they had to gain on average thirty-four new members each year just to stay where they were in terms of membership , such was the high level of mobility in their community . |
| 21 | The goldsmiths learnt from experience what proportion of gold reserves they had to keep in order to meet day-to-day demands for gold withdrawals . |