Example sentences of "and had [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Gooch damaged a finger as soon as the innings began and had to go to hospital , Pringle taking command ; but he could work no miracles and victory was gained for the loss of just two wickets . |
2 | I hurt my wrist in a fall recently and had to go to hospital , which is a teaching hospital . |
3 | Later be became giddy , sick and weak and had to go to hospital twice , but no-one knew what was wrong with him . |
4 | Rest of the cast fought him off but the tenor got cut about quite badly and had to go to hospital . |
5 | If Lancaster , with its castle and harbour , could have been garrisoned for James it could have provided a connecting link with France , but Forster could not spare the men and had to press on south , through wretched weather and along increasingly miry roads . |
6 | More awkward still , since Laura was not on board , he was obliged to lock up before going to the office , and had to wait on board , with his brief-case and umbrella , determinedly not listening , while Nenna went down to the saloon . |
7 | But war was under way again in southern Angola , the team faced obvious difficulties and had to rely on information from the Angolan government . |
8 | She received no support from the father for the child , and had to rely upon charity and from what is called ‘ the food bank ’ because she did not receive enough money from the welfare services to feed the child . |
9 | But the law reports are a random collection of cases , and the very fact that each of those cases resulted from a dispute which the parties could not settle by agreement and had to take to court may make them an unrepresentative sample of the applications of the procedure . |
10 | ‘ Plancius ’ was anchored some way offshore because of shallow water and reefs , so when the first party went off in the inflatable , we could see no land at all and had to steer by compass . |
11 | In 1315–17 he designed a wall to be built around the royal manor of Eltham , Kent , and had to act as surety for the contractors , whose faulty work necessitated its rebuilding . |
12 | But Wohlfarth had expended all his torpedoes and had to watch in anguish as the huge aircraft carrier , without a protective destroyer screen , slid past him . |
13 | Still walking east , the party were aware that they were almost at the front line and had to proceed with caution . |
14 | The fog exacerbated his emphysema : he was short of breath , found it difficult to walk very far , and had to stay at home in seclusion . |
15 | But the next day I fell ill , and had to stay in bed for three weeks , which was very unusual for me . |
16 | I fell asleep on the Circle Line and had to retrack from South Kensington to Victoria , curled up in a corner seat in the warm tube . |
17 | In these years the Unitarians were forced out of the Dissenting Deputies and had to fight for control of their chapel property against other dissenters ; tensions and fractures recurrently emerged within the Society of Friends . |