Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an inflationary age those who had sound customary tenures reaped the benefits of fixed annual rents , but those tenants who were successfully challenged by their lords had to meet demands for considerable increases . |
| 2 | The Royal Africa Company had to provide slaves for English colonists as a condition of keeping the charter which gave it the monopoly of the trade , and the colonists added to the injury of leaving their debts unpaid the insult of complaining that too few slaves were being delivered . |
| 3 | While third party developments such as the Hercules graphics cards helped relieve this situation they complicated the life of the software developers who had to provide drivers for each and every variation . |
| 4 | He still had to find room for two more , so he decided to banish the two foolish , pretty O'Hanlons from their billiard-table , sensing that they would make least fuss . |
| 5 | Thus the Treasury had to give permission for all borrowing undertaken by a local authority , not merely in total but for each project for which money was borrowed . |
| 6 | The king agreed to this , but then had to face petitions for further concessions from both magnates and the commons , who demanded that the charters should be observed , the laws and statutes maintained , and the concessions of 1340 upheld . |
| 7 | When they eventually became man and wife , it was the ‘ quietest of quiet weddings ’ and they had to pay half-a-crown for two passers-by to act as witnesses . |
| 8 | He lost entitlement to free prescriptions ; he also had to pay £24 for dental treatment , and he can no longer claim his hospital fares unless they cost more than £8.50 . |
| 9 | A voluntary group whose ambulance ground to a halt on the two-mile stretch of the B1077 near Watton , Norfolk , had to pay £300 for new tyres . |
| 10 | We had to have masks for this . |
| 11 | We had a wholesalers of course we had to get wholesalers for some things . |
| 12 | Sometimes you had to get sandwiches for other people 's lunch and run errands , deliver clothes . |
| 13 | Since France was pro-Egyptian and Britain 's fleets were otherwise engaged , the Sultan had to ask Russia for more than diplomatic assistance . |
| 14 | These ministries had to ask permission for all major items of expenditure within the total sum voted and had , at the end of the year , to account to the Treasury for the detailed expenditure of their allocation of funds . |
| 15 | and she had to ask Reception for another vase because the first one was full up . |
| 16 | Inevitably this assault had to mean trouble for some of their own folk , since they must drive through the outer ring of Scots to get at the enemy — the cost which had caused Ramsay momentarily to hesitate . |
| 17 | The world had changed : de Chavigny could no longer cater just to the needs of those who had arrived ; it had to make provision for those on the way up . |
| 18 | Una Kyne , the executive services manager , put on a memorable meal and even had to make arrangements for 15 chauffeur driven cars to be given access . |
| 19 | But it was for the lock from the people , you know and he , he got round like this , and this is the God 's truth as well again , he 'd come to me from America and er they , I had to make locks for certain people they called them statos , status symbols there , in their own houses , you know , where they put this lock on and anybody as he 's got one like that , you know and from America to Dick in Willenhall to make them . |