Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was eventually made doubly plain when each member of my crew took it in turn to brief me on his particular duties , and I in turn had to perform in his position . |
| 2 | ‘ Raindrops had to fall on my head for real like everybody else — I do n't really wish to talk about those things , now we are over it . |
| 3 | M. The horrid old man Sinbad had to carry on his back . |
| 4 | ‘ My boyfriend had to sit outside his surgery with the door open , calling to me : ‘ It 's all right — I 'm right outside if you need me ’ . ’ |
| 5 | Now she had to sit in his boat or he would be insulted and she was glad to rest . |
| 6 | At RINGSTEAD , Northants , Lynda Wyatt had to clamber on her car roof with seven-month-old baby Luke and son David , three . |
| 7 | They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary . |
| 8 | Even if other painters had to wait for their money , Zbo tried desperately hard to make sure that Modi did not go without . |
| 9 | They usually had to wait for their father to come home to decipher Davide 's news aloud to them . ) |
| 10 | It seems that it is not clarification of definition , tell that to the woman who looked for two , thirteen years after a stroke husband and they had to wait for his death , that you did n't sell him a dread disease policy because there is not clarification of definition . |
| 11 | But important matters had to wait on his attention ; and , if he chose to withhold it , might wait for some time . |
| 12 | To get this far they had to swim from their breeding grounds in the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 13 | ‘ I had only returned from a holiday in Dublin and had n't the price of the airline ticket , so I had to borrow from my mum , ’ said Deirdre , who is the mother of a five-year-old daughter , Emma . |
| 14 | She also had to cope with his temper . |
| 15 | We had to appeal on his behalf . |
| 16 | She had to appeal to his pride . |
| 17 | The offence was grievous and innocent , I drove the wrong way round a roundabout , which sounds appalling but there was not a single other car in sight to , in a sense to steer by so to speak , erm but there was one policeman , and he stopped me , and he fined me , and I had to search for my purse , which I had well hidden , this being Italy , erm underneath all the bedding and the tents and the cooking pots , found it in due course , presented him very shakily with these thousand lire or whatever it was he wanted , and , and this is really the point , drove off very shakily too . |
| 18 | Until a few weeks ago skin patients had to go for their treatment to the old dermatology hospital in this old TB ward , while research was carried out in a couple of temporary buildings . |
| 19 | It has to be said however that the presbytery , presbytery clerks er write their own agenda for these meetings er for these conferences and er it would be up to presbyteries to instruct their clerks that that had to go on their agenda . |
| 20 | We had examples of parents trusting schools to the extent of giving truthful rather than cosmetic reason for absence ( ‘ Susan had to go with her granny to collect her pension ’ ) — but keeping the children off nonetheless . |
| 21 | We did not even have our own lavatories ; our employees had to go outside our part of the building to use communal facilities . |
| 22 | Luke states that everyone had to go to their home town to be registered . |
| 23 | ‘ I had to go to her house . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Well I have n't heard the official report because I had to go to my board meeting , but if you ask me , Maggie 's dragon did it . ’ |
| 25 | So anyway , that was it , you had to go to your branch and complain , make your protest in writing , see , and the branch secretary would reply to your letter okay , And they 'd ask for maybe a few more details about the complaint . |
| 26 | We had to go to our form rooms and fill in our timetable , the week looked so busy . |
| 27 | Dai Jones remembered when he had to go to his cousin in Llandidloes for a bucket to mix the dyes , ‘ because there was no money to buy one , and money was owed everywhere . ’ |
| 28 | They also insisted that I sue their front door — and not my own — so that people had to go through their gallery . |
| 29 | Early down-town theatres could rely on the casual trade , the ‘ droppers-in ’ , but small-town and suburban halls had to go after their trade and it was essential that managers acquaint the whole community with what was on offer . |
| 30 | He says it 's a shame John McGregor had to go from his post as Education Secretary . |