Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [pron] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to promise them a press conference , and I thought you 'd rather do it now , old son . |
| 2 | Then when I reached the Mess , you letter was waiting for me , and it made me happy and sad at once , and I just HAD to write you a note , though I ca n't post it tonight . |
| 3 | We had to guess what the speaker was intending to say , from the context — just as foreigners listening to English , in fact . |
| 4 | I had to find her a flat , move her in , go to the Electricity Board , and then her husband Monica 's one of those who need a mother , someone who takes her on An idea came into Alice 's head of such beautiful and apt simplicity that she began laughing quietly to herself . |
| 5 | And again had to wonder what the dickens was the matter with her for Ven , in no way similarly affected , moved and , taking casual hold of her arm , began to lead her across the road . |
| 6 | Then to stop her crying , anything to stop that , he had to buy her the set of antique-look brass fire-irons she had set her heart on for the lounge , to give an extra touch of authenticity to the rustic stone fireplace and the imitation-log gas fire . |
| 7 | ‘ So the thing that I would say , if I had to give myself a brownie point , would be that I enabled her to see that she could work actively with the situation . |
| 8 | They had to give me a brandy , I were in a right state me ! |
| 9 | Er and usually we maybe had to give them a holiday . |
| 10 | When Wycliffe returned from talking to Sidney he had to give them a statement . |
| 11 | I had to give them the keys . |
| 12 | By the close of the first day , though , they had lost Broad , and Pat Pocock , going in as nightwatchman , had told the England physiotherapist Bernard Thomas that he had cleaned his teeth and gargled in case Thomas had to give him the kiss of life . |
| 13 | If I tell you that Maureen actually had to give him the kiss of life twice when he caught a chill , you 'll appreciate why we went to such lengths to keep him warm . |
| 14 | Maybe fate had to give you a shove on to the right path . ’ |
| 15 | They had to give it a quarter turn you see with a spanner . |
| 16 | This undramatic release of large volumes of lava , would , if one had to give it a name , probably best be described as a Hawaiian-type eruption . |
| 17 | Then you had to flitt them every day when the wool started to get loose on them you had to the tether would get in a and you had to clear their tethers . |
| 18 | However much he bucked against it , in the end , if he wanted to survive in this world , let alone succeed , he had to do everything the schoolteacher instructed him to do . |
| 19 | Only he had to do it every day . |
| 20 | I had to send her a greetings telegram , so that she would not be alarmed at the sight of the envelope , saying : DARLING MUM I AM MARRIED TO MY MUSE AND HAVE NO INTENTION OF SEEKING A DIVORCE SO DO N'T WORRY I 'LL BE A BACHELOR GAY FOR ME REST OF MY LIFE LOVE JIM . |
| 21 | Well I suppose a very junior clerk , the first job I was given was , well it 's unheard of in this day and age but what they had was what they call a bundi clock and there every driver and conductor had got a key that was inserted in this clock and on it was his personal number , well when he reported for duty , he inserted this key into the clock , turned the handle and stamped on to a piece of paper , a roll of paper , his number and the time he reported and the next day it was my job to go through and record from this piece of paper how many minutes they were late f reporting for duty and if they erm were more than , I think about three or four minutes we had to send them a memo telling them , that 's how things were in those days that people were , they toed the line or else . |
| 22 | I mean , if you , if you into , if you were trying to look into building or commercial and you had to send them a planning application for it , you 'd have to prove that building could support the weight . |
| 23 | But his persecutors were frustrated when they had to release him a week later , partly due to a technical fault in the warrant for his arrest and partly due to the influence of his friend , Sir Matthew Hale . |
| 24 | I started to put together a little library and had to teach myself a lot more before I could teach anyone else . |
| 25 | I had to repeat it a number of times so that there could be no misunderstanding . |
| 26 | We had to watch her every moment of the day , to stop her playing her tricks on us . |
| 27 | His knowledge of classical music was very comprehensive — you only had to sing him a snatch of any symphony or concerto and he would be able to identify it immediately , but this is n't sufficient to get you up there in front of a hundred or more qualified musicians and be able to lead them into the opening bars of Beethoven 's 5th , or even the Warsaw Concerto . |
| 28 | He had invented the idea of the comedy at that moment , and to prove it he had to offer her a joke in evidence . |
| 29 | ‘ I had to offer her a round of toasted cheese and a cup of tea . |
| 30 | Thérèse had to offer him the apéritif , Léonie the fluted glass dish of polished Japanese crackers . |