Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [prep] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one , gimmel and G had to go in one pile and mem and M in another ; a further task required the subjects to put mem and G together and to put gimmel with M. |
| 2 | And we had to go from one pub to the other to look for him . |
| 3 | They believed that peoples had to go from one stage to another with mechanical regularity and in predictable order . |
| 4 | Here Revelstoke was in his element ; acute intelligence and charm , capacity for meticulous work , presence and eloquence , fluency in French and Spanish , and , above all , financial acumen made him a match for the wiliest of South American presidents , North American railway barons , European finance ministers , and the members of the British cabinet with all of whom he had to deal at one time or another . |
| 5 | One got the impression that Mr Callaghan felt that he had to put on one side the normal practice of consulting only a small group of inner ministers on economic issues , and had to carry all the colleagues , all twenty-two , if he was to have a hope of carrying the party in the country clearly out of the crisis . |
| 6 | Craig Young of the support team says they 're coping very well and in all they 're cycling 1147 miles … running 30 miles and swimming 8 miles … in Scotland they had to run through five foot snow drifts on Ben Nevis |
| 7 | They had to settle for three consolation points , leaving them second three points below Gresford . |
| 8 | However this may be , Robinson ( 1955 ) , in common with most subsequent investigators of transfer from verbal pretraining to a perceptual task , made use of a quite different task procedure — a test of recognition memory in which the subject had to respond in one way to stimuli that had been presented in pre-training and in a different way to novel stimuli . |
| 9 | His neck and shoulders gradually became so stiff that he had to turn in one piece from the waist up . |
| 10 | When Phil Collins came on , his jacket had such wide shoulders that I had to lean to one side to see the monitor TV set which the producer uses to scribble messages to me . |
| 11 | We need to understand the position of the Sanhedrin , Jesus is really representing great changes in their tradition great a great revolution really and we know that what he was doing was was sort of getting Christianity to grow out of Judaism , but it meant that Judaism had to move to one side . |
| 12 | Under it daimyo had to reside for one year out of every two in the capital , and leave their wives and families in permanent residence there . |
| 13 | Years ago we stored water in a big cream pot but that came to grief during a hard frost and we had to resort on one occasion to a possing tub — that is a fluted tub made from galvanized metal which was common to most households before washing machines — which , of course , had to be used for soaking the dirty clothes on washing day . |
| 14 | Drama had been immeasurably improved by escaping the demands of live transmission when actors had to rush from one scene to the next . |