Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [noun] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coordinators had to acquire skills in leadership and in handling people and ideas which the majority of them had not developed in their previous jobs . |
| 2 | At seven I had to carry ID in case bus drivers attempted to charge me adult fare . |
| 3 | This sensitivity to American qualities was coupled with a new willingness to accept that commerce and art had to go hand in hand . |
| 4 | The juvenile courts also had powers to place children in care , and the former children 's departments had to receive children in need of care and protection and find them substitute homes . |
| 5 | During the public question period later , the most serious query was why western listeners to national network programmes had to hear announcements in French as well as in English , just because they originated in Quebec . |
| 6 | The request ( 5:1 ) : this seems less than the whole truth ; but it is in the nature of a test-case , Israel had to leave Egypt in order to sacrifice because the nature of their sacrifice was offensive to the Egyptians ( 8:26 ) . |
| 7 | At the same time as the US sought to stiffen French resolve , at least to continue the war , it had to persuade France in effect to let go because , at the very least , it had recognized that the forces of what was nominally ‘ the French Union ’ in Indo-China in reality needed men : and these men would have to be found for and fight in the National Army of Vietnam . |
| 8 | Two Southend players missed the team bus and had to fly north in time for kickoff . |
| 9 | And then I had to pay tuppence in cafe for a cup of tea and mother would fix me a sandwich . |
| 10 | When she got home she had to boil spaghetti in acqua minerale . |
| 11 | Thus the church made its past its own : the martyrs were made present in time ; but they also had to become present in space . |