Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a limited liability company was floated to finance the tour , the New Zealand team set sail knowing they had to perform well and play attractive cricket for the sake of the nervous subscribers back home . |
| 2 | But erm if people fell sick , you know , anybody fell sick , well you all , you had to fall in and fill their place . |
| 3 | Peter says : ‘ I would like them to think if it was their brother , if it was them that had to sit there and watch their brother die in their arms , see how they would feel . |
| 4 | We just had to sit there and ride through the flak . |
| 5 | The local people who were unemployed just had to sit there and look out of their windows at others doing work they desperately wanted . ’ |
| 6 | But he was shaking so badly that he had to sit down and have a rest . |
| 7 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 8 | They had to go ahead and do it . |
| 9 | We just had to go up and see him and |
| 10 | ‘ I had to go over and get it in person . |
| 11 | Of course , I had to go over and see to them . ’ |
| 12 | But if we were doing as we do a lot of jobs like that and I had to go round and estimate every one it would cost me more to go round and estimate than it would to do the jobs . |
| 13 | S. H. We were held responsible for property and we had to go round and test every doorway and that would occupy the first time round — say an hour and a half — and then usually you had to go round and test them a second time , just to make sure . |
| 14 | S. H. We were held responsible for property and we had to go round and test every doorway and that would occupy the first time round — say an hour and a half — and then usually you had to go round and test them a second time , just to make sure . |
| 15 | Before her supper that evening she had to go upstairs and see Belle Maman , to say goodnight . |
| 16 | I had to go upstairs and take the uniform off to brush it , as otherwise it would have been deduced that I had sat in the chair of a gentleman . |
| 17 | The gentle melodies of Ireland filled the place with much tender nostalgia that even her brother 's eyes became moist , and Maria Candida had to go outside and howl over something she called her " saudades " . |
| 18 | She felt as though she was dying , as though her heart was being ripped piece by piece into shreds , but she had to go on and finish the programme . |
| 19 | This is the scenario , and they had to go away and ask , write a press release in that scenario . |
| 20 | Australia made inroads into our batting and the moment of truth arrived when Fletch had to go out and bat . |
| 21 | But then I had to go out and buy another one … ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ There was no youth policy here then so Graeme had to go out and buy players . |
| 23 | She says you had to go out and buy butter solely because I wanted it . |
| 24 | He wanted me to come back as , obviously , it was very helpful for him to have someone who would control things when he had to go out and work . |
| 25 | That 's what John said last night , we er , all they , all went to bingo five of us went and it boomeranged well if you 're going I 'll come , if I 'm going you 're going I 'm going and the next thing poor old John had to go out and work look after about eleven kids |
| 26 | So I had to go out and let Ashley and Kelly out |
| 27 | And then of course at er the time of the lambing time you had to go out and help with the lambing time , you know , to help the shepherds with If he 'd a weakling lamb you 'd always to bring it in the house and then feed it in a bottle . |
| 28 | And then after , in the winter , and then after that when it was near hay time , I had to go out and help with the hay . |
| 29 | see you had to go out and look through the rivet hole to see who was shouting in you know . |
| 30 | And just as the shepherd had to go out and look for it , and search for it . |