Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second-hand car which is not safe to be driven on the road ( for example because the brakes are in such a state that they would fail if the driver had to carry out an emergency stop ) is clearly not of merchantable quality , Lee v. York Coach and Marine ( 1977 C.A. ) — unless of course the car was only sold for scrap . |
| 2 | The stages were so enormous — about 60 feet across — that you had to poke out a bit of noise just to make yourself heard . |
| 3 | We entered the very horse show that we had to sit out the year before . |
| 4 | This morning I had to connect up a video for Caroline to use and all the leads , every single lead we 've got , to connect any machine to any machine , were all bundled in like a load missing , and it took me what , five minutes to find the right leads and connect the machines up . |
| 5 | He turned left down an alley without indicating and I had to carve up a Volvo with Swedish number plates in order to follow him . |
| 6 | The great hero Sigmar first united the men of the middle Old World into the Empire , and to do so he had to drive out the Orcs and Goblins that lived there . |
| 7 | They were so poor that they had to grind up the bark of trees to make flour for their bread . |
| 8 | Last week a Durham City vehicle took 25 minutes to answer an emergency call in Bishop Auckland , and recently a woman in Upper Teesdale had to wait over an hour for an ambulance . |
| 9 | Mr Reed had to wait almost a year before serious preparation for the trial began , and the trial proper did not get underway until 11 February 1991 , by which time the judge had sat through four months of preparatory hearings . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've got pretty good hearing but I had to wait almost a moment before I could imagine I could hear anything . |
| 11 | And what was the sort of clothes you had to wear down the pit ? |
| 12 | So we had to search quite a time to find these players . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're only envious , and you know you were the most concerned when he had to lose almost a year to that fever . |
| 14 | And it was very dark , but I had to go up every night , and I did n't like going up in the dark . ’ |
| 15 | I , I er , o we had to get the ladders we had to go up the ladders did n't we ? |
| 16 | Four other girls , that 's right and of course there were housemaids there to do the work and er yes housemaids and er and er you know and in the , in the kitchen , you see , there was the chef and er a cook , the kitchen maid and er a young man , a boy , well just left school to scrub the tables down and do the floors and that sort of thing and er and whi and er while I , of course I had to go down every day to type , to see what the chef said , what was on the menu and type it , type out the menus , you see , that was one of my jobs and er and if let me think , yes there was quite a number of staff , that 's just in the kitchen |
| 17 | And erm my father and another lad who was working out in the had to go Called Michael , had to go down every evening to pump water for the the animal . |
| 18 | They had to go down the rope side-ladder , Richard first . |
| 19 | He had to go down the mines and he stuck it out . |
| 20 | he and he were like this in the water I had to go down the bank I grabbed hold of him in the middle of his back , just turfed him out . |
| 21 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 22 | Oh I 'd forgotten about that , right I had to go back a couple of times did n't I Bev ? |
| 23 | But can you see the people who came to the stepping stones and could n't go across and had to go back the way they 'd already come would n't go back with a very their ego would n't have b been boosted very high . |
| 24 | She had to go back the way she had come . |
| 25 | She did n't point out that they had to go back the way they had come , and when he reached into the back and handed her a water container she drank gladly . |
| 26 | ‘ Similarly , I did n't want any obvious arms on it so I had to work out a system of manipulators — things that did things , like a grip mechanism or a gun . |
| 27 | It played on his mind for a time and eventually he had to work out a kind of therapy to get her out of his brain . |
| 28 | Ted Ray , one of the judges , reminded me that I now had to work out an act for ‘ The All Winners Show ’ , which happened every seventh week , a contest between the six previous show winners . |
| 29 | Sorry Chief Administrator Officer and I had to provide quite a lot of statistical information which I 'd never done before but nevertheless I , I made a fairly reasonable job of it , I had an assistant and erm I , I think I got fairly well known amongst the councillors and people who mattered and then went . |
| 30 | ‘ If you had to sum up the idea of Playboy it is anti-Puritanism , ’ said Hefner at the time . |