Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Democratic audiences had to consent to this approach . |
| 2 | and all our shopping was down at the Old Town , you had to go down this lane to the Old Town if you wanted a stamp |
| 3 | I remember we arrived during a heat wave and had to go into this refrigerator where they kept the furs . |
| 4 | During my boyhood my special task in the family was to look after our cattle , sheep and goats ; therefore I had to go through this training , and afterwards taught my brothers . |
| 5 | ‘ They made us chase shadows for long spells but we had to go after this game and that situation was tailor-made for Spartak , ’ he said . |
| 6 | I had to come round this way this morning to get to Whitehall It 's just so chock-a-block on that new ro roadway . |
| 7 | Oh yes , you only had to listen to this afternoon like , with the crowds and that , obviously it means a lot to them and there 's a lot of you know , stick I suppose goes around between the two clubs , so I just want to go out there , hopefully have a good game and keep a clean sheet . |
| 8 | What he had to announce for this year was , particularly in its revenue-raising aspects , decidedly thin , indeed fiscally neutral . |
| 9 | Someone had to respond to this demand , the small little shop in the village could n't do it , even the big Co-ops could n't do it . |
| 10 | I had to lie on this bed with an enormous arch over me and be passed very slowly underneath it . |
| 11 | What the song was that we had to sing on this stage , with it . |
| 12 | In learning to account for its difference from non-Europe , it also had to account for this supremacy , for the unquestionable success it had had in imposing its hegemony on ‘ inferior ’ cultures . |
| 13 | Mary Alston , one of the mainstays of the women 's union in the 1920s , had to care during this time for a sick sister , who was in and out of a nursing home ; much later , in the 1940s , she had to give up work for a while to care for her mother . |
| 14 | Although the amount NoS had to raise at this point was small compared with what was to come later , those involved say that in many ways it was harder work . |
| 15 | This is not to say that a science and technological education had to take on this character , for clearly there were and always have been those who are committed to inspiring in students a love of , and a care for , their subjects in those disciplines . |
| 16 | But despite the usual rows of Question Time , no-one disagreed with what John Major had to say on this occasion . |
| 17 | I did it all on me own , of course Alan sat here like a bloody idiot , I said you sit there do n't get , he said I thought you were getting a cloth , I burnt all me arm trying to , jumping out , hacking me hair out there so I had to say to this bloke I said well there 's erm justice for you , he said what ? |
| 18 | The dazibao writers regretted the fact that they had to resort to this medium for making their opinions known . |
| 19 | They had to ask each other about one element in the writing that they wanted to know more about , and each writer had to act on this question . |
| 20 | As it was impractical to remove this essential structural element , the new first-floor construction had to terminate on this line , so the added floor was restricted to the east side of the central truss . |
| 21 | But having I could just tell councillor that the main problems which he felt he had to bring into this debate , the main problem is parking across the driveways in Harvey Goodwin Avenue , both the residents get very fed up because the parking . |