Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [prep] their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if other painters had to wait for their money , Zbo tried desperately hard to make sure that Modi did not go without . |
| 2 | They usually had to wait for their father to come home to decipher Davide 's news aloud to them . ) |
| 3 | To get this far they had to swim from their breeding grounds in the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Luke states that everyone had to go to their home town to be registered . |
| 7 | They also insisted that I sue their front door — and not my own — so that people had to go through their gallery . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Another argument was that the payment of lesbian and gay workers would create further divisions and hierarchies within the communities , and would place the workers in situations where they had to choose between their loyalty to the community and their loyalty to their funding body . |
| 10 | As they were playing elsewhere next day they had to scratch from their match and return to London leaving their clubs behind . |
| 11 | The applause that greeted them was like a thunder clap and went on for so long that the Girls could not hear the music and had to count under their breath to synchronize their kicks . |
| 12 | Women usually had to call for their work and were often kept waiting in all weathers . |
| 13 | The buyers were awarded damages assessed at 5s. per quarter and also damages which the buyers had to pay to their sub-buyer . |
| 14 | They had to explain to their stepmother Rose what Monaghan Day was . |
| 15 | But two detectives who flew to Texas last month had to return without their prisoner after it was discovered that all the necessary paperwork in the USA had not been completed . |
| 16 | The players had to rely on their hearing rather than their sight ! |
| 17 | Bangor dominated the entire 40 minutes , pegging Collegians back in their own 22 , but all they had to show for their pressure was a Terry McMaster penalty on the half hour . |