Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus while first-class patronage was encouraged , and more businessmen complained bitterly that they had to go first-class in order to enjoy their British breakfast , more humble individuals who merely wanted to enjoy the view from the train were not so generously treated . |
| 2 | Only thing she were n't chuffed about is she could n't cash cheque , it had to go all through bank and everything . |
| 3 | I had to go direct from home to interview an important witness . |
| 4 | The Duke had to appear confident of victory or else every waverer in his army would run to be with the Emperor and the winning side . |
| 5 | It seems unlikely any had to fight harder for nomination than Lady Megan had to in 1928 . |
| 6 | and he thinks because I 've he 's pleaded had to plead guilty in court |
| 7 | She had to revise this at Angel and again at Old Street . |
| 8 | Excepting internationally priced commodities , this meant that all developing countries had to export more in order to import the same amount of goods and services . |
| 9 | To answer these questions about life I had to learn first about death . |
| 10 | In the chemistry I did you seem to me to be terribly empirical , you had an inorganic substance and you had to learn absolute by heart what it did if you put it in water and you heated it and you did this that and the other . |
| 11 | And I had to say this in front of my mother who had to be present , which was even more degrading . |
| 12 | Oh I , when I , when I went there the next morning I had to tell all in front of the class and tell all the kids . |
| 13 | In each case it is evident that physical geographers had to become conversant with progress in related disciplines and a number of excellent papers in Progress in Physical Geography ( 1977- ) provide reports reflecting progress in other disciplines . |