Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to sit out in the corridor at Windsor listening to Electrophone transmissions of some opera that went on and on before the warblers saw fit to die with some interminable aria . |
| 2 | But for three hours singers , orchestra and audience ( many of the latter stading ) had to wait impatiently in the overheated atmosphere until the opera should begin . |
| 3 | A teacher , again in a Southall primary school , told of an ‘ amusing ’ incident when an Indian girl of ten was reduced to tears when she had to go out in the sun in the summer term . |
| 4 | had to go out in the road ! |
| 5 | He had to go back in the end because there was no one else to put her to bed , but he hated touching her . ’ |
| 6 | But I felt guilty about her being in a Home … she just had to go in in the end — and I know it 's the best place , it 's safe and she has company all the time … ’ |
| 7 | He had to come home in the ambulance , and had a bed downstairs for the daytime , but managed to go upstairs to bed at night . |
| 8 | As the battering wind seized them they had to stoop along in the darkness , fighting for handholds , first the base of the old pulley , then the mast . |
| 9 | More than half a century after that , Sir William Temple , one of the outstanding English diplomats of the seventeenth century , had to struggle repeatedly in the 1660s and early 1670s to obtain arrears of salary and repayment for the expenses he had incurred , and he is merely the best-known of many similar cases . |
| 10 | She had to stand up in the midst of a certain amount of pomp and ceremony and address a large audience , which included her own family , her husband , the Prime Minister , the Lord Mayor and a host of City dignitaries , many of them accomplished public speakers themselves . |
| 11 | If he wanted to reach an object he had to set out in the wrong direction and hope to angle in on it ! |
| 12 | And we went to one temple and it got dark whilst we were there , it was called the Monkey Temple , and it 's just so many monkeys around , and they just are allowed to run wild , but by the time we got back to our bikes it was dark and we had to cycle back in the dark without any lights on these unlit , unmade roads and that was quite frightening really . |
| 13 | This was not the moment to tell Ingrid to strain less in her upper registers , or to remind Luiza to allow plenty of time when she had to walk on in the ball scene . |
| 14 | ‘ Historically , people have looked to Europe as a place to make up the profit margins they had to give away in the States , ’ Apple spokesperson Frank O'Mahoney admitted to me immediately before launching into a lengthy explanation of how computer prices in Europe are now tumbling to less obscene levels . |
| 15 | It should have started at Brands Hatch , but Jackie crashed it and had to race again in the 003 . |
| 16 | He had to run back in the dark and make safe the Lewes bomb . |
| 17 | ‘ I adored Bristol and if I had to live anywhere in the world , I would come back and live here . |
| 18 | As the unsatisfactoriness of the exercise was clearly not due to any limitations on the part of the participants , it had to lie squarely in the design of the exercise itself . |
| 19 | They got him in the boat and they he had to lie down in the bottom of the boat and they and they covered him with a tarpaulin . |
| 20 | Bernard took the matter of the offending questionnaire to the union forthwith : the local dispute quickly turned national : Bernard spoke to the press , rallied his colleagues ; but alas , all too many wanted no more than a quiet life : Bernard confided that sometimes he had to eat alone in the staff dining room . |
| 21 | You had to get up in the morning and see that there was plenty of a great pot of of hot water , boiling water . |
| 22 | I 've got catarrh , in fact I had to get up in the night and put some there |
| 23 | I do n't know how he got out , I mean our road is so difficult anyway , of course there wa , that night there were two , yeah two when them , he had to get out in the morning , but er , I mean he did it , but I expect it was a struggle |
| 24 | The pilot was winched to safety after Saturday 's crash , but the Paramount Studios staff had to stay overnight in the crater . |
| 25 | He had to kneel down in the muddy track , damaging his trousers , reminding him of playground agonies ; he gripped , tugged , balanced . |