Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Whitlock shoved Karen out of the way and had to fling himself on to the bonnet of a BMW as the Mercedes flashed past , missing him by inches . |
2 | It stretched it and started all bleeding and I had and I had to sew it up with a sewing kit . |
3 | Like Croydon , Penge U.D.C. had the right to purchase its tramways in each seventh year on granting six months ' notice , but if it did , it had to lease them back to the Company . |
4 | There were hundreds of screaming women outside and we had to whisk him down to the underground car park and shut the gates behind him . |
5 | Mother used to say he had to work it out of his system . |
6 | We went our separate ways , both recognizing that we had to psych ourselves up for the race . |
7 | I was n't sure if it would work so I had to try it out before buying it . |
8 | He had to pull himself up with help from other divers who pulled his umbilical , and anything else they could get hold of . |
9 | Their manager , John King , said his players were so high on publicity that before this match he had to pull them down from the ceiling . |
10 | They had to forward it up to the Pentagon . |
11 | So I could n't I could n't charge him twenty cos he 'd only charged me he 'd only charged me twenty so I had to sell him back to him for a tenner you know . |
12 | You had to sell it back to the council . |
13 | They used to at one , when it was first brought out , you had to sell it back within a number of years . |
14 | He neglected all his duties and so there was nothing for it , either we had to wipe him off as a son , which is an impossible thing for a parent to do , or we had to decide the only other course open to us which was to kidnap him and have him de-programmed . |
15 | But when she looked at the mirror again the stain of spectacles was still there and she had to wipe it off with a cloth so that Larry would not see . |
16 | We did n't have time off for lectures we had to fit them in with our wi with our off duty . |
17 | This was a slow process , for Tom had to keep stopping to explain what the words meant , and several times had to look them up in a dictionary . |
18 | I was sharing a place with Bobby ( Jacky ) Lee and Ted Halsall in the Portland Hotel , and they had to help me out of bed when the bell rang . |
19 | When my mother , in a state of total embarrassment , attempted to enlighten me , I had to help her out by telling her what I knew already . |
20 | You had to chase him off from where you were cordoning off the slip . |
21 | With one foot on the platform and the other hovering over the stairwell , I had to draw myself in with real concentration at every stop when the driver came round to unjam the ‘ automatic ’ door . |
22 | together with a representative of British Rail , and he was saying that , I , forget how many car transporters they 've got that erm , they built , bought specially to go on British Rail , he said , but they said he just had to give them up for many reasons and one of them was the problems that they have with new cars when they take them on British Rail and the brake dust from the trains apparently causes immediate rust . |
23 | You just said we had to leave her out of the conversation ! ’ |
24 | He said in a letter to The Times that ministers had to leave it up to the court whether or not the documents should be disclosed . |
25 | I had to tag him on to group deals as a makeweight — you know , like the contract I did for twelve of my players with UK Airlines . |
26 | You 're in luck — we found a fowl this morning , and it did n't look too well , so we had to put it out of its misery . ’ |
27 | I had to have a bit because when I put the blackcurrant in there was n't enough so I had to mix it up with . |
28 | I saw the way you had to fight him off in that first dance — the bastard 's hands were everywhere ! ’ |
29 | ‘ I more or less had to prise it out of him , but in the end he decided I was n't such a bad risk , after all . ’ |
30 | ‘ The ‘ guns ’ had to call it off by mid-day . ’ |