Example sentences of "she had [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 On the surface Caesar appeared to be a supremely selfish individual , but then she had to take into account that having virtue he had no need of goodness .
2 Doctors told her she needed an emergency hysterectomy , but because of a bed shortage she had to wait in agony for three-and-a-half hours .
3 Soon after I got my English A-level , mum learned that she had to go into hospital for quite a long time .
4 Old Miss Mahoney had a little house in Tanner Road , but she had to go into hospital last week , and if she ever comes out , she 'll have to go into a home for old people .
5 But the smile disappeared to be replaced by a doleful frown when she had to go into dinner herself — and sit next to her husband .
6 No matter how bad the storm was she had to go on deck , where at least the air was clean .
7 Once we had a goose but Mother was so ill that she had to go to bed after she had roasted it .
8 She had to go to 'ospital , right .
9 She had to go to hospital , she never did like it .
10 One thing she had to say about Dad , at least he had prepped her for the world she was going to have to live in .
11 This may have been an exaggeration based on her own experience , but was related to the attitudes and difficulties with which she had to contend during training .
12 Paula Yates , for instance , admits in an interview in Woman magazine that she is so thin that she had to put on weight before she could become pregnant .
13 She had to stand on tiptoe to reach the stamp-machine .
14 She had to stand on tiptoe to reach his lips .
15 Nowhere is it suggested that she had to convert from paganism .
16 She had to learn about accountancy ,
17 Already qualified , she had to start from scratch .
18 Her brain patterns seemed to go all haywire then , but as once more Fabia got herself back together , so that most important matter she had to think about rose to the surface .
19 She kept rabbits in a hutch in the back garden behind the rows of cabbages and the clump of rhubarb and did not mind at all that in winter she had to wash at night in a bowl set on a sheet of brown paper in front of the living room fire because there was no heater in the bathroom .
20 She had to walk into work tomorrow and face her colleagues .
21 She had to run from fitzAlan before he damaged her beyond recovery .
22 She did n't know how she was going to do it , but somehow she had to get into conversation with her .
23 Liz was humiliated by this , rather than enraged , but she knew that she had to qualify in order ever to be free and accepted the conditions .
24 She had to stay off school for two or three weeks .
25 ‘ Well , she … she told me that you were n't well and she had to stay at home . ’
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