Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At seven I had to carry ID in case bus drivers attempted to charge me adult fare . |
| 2 | So stony that he even had to borrow money from Dad to get home . |
| 3 | At one point he was almost cut off and , in the pitch black , in the bowels of the earth , he had to swing arm after arm from the overhead girders to stay above the advancing peat . |
| 4 | This sensitivity to American qualities was coupled with a new willingness to accept that commerce and art had to go hand in hand . |
| 5 | We had to meet fire with fire . ’ |
| 6 | The easiest part is to work out what would happen to the waters of the lake itself ; but for this , Dr Hollis had to pool information on rainfall , evaporation , the flow and salinity of the rivers , and the level , volume , and salinity of the lake , over as many years as possible ( in practice thirty ) and feed this into a computer . |
| 7 | She had a number of very enthusiastic friends who did the research and , and generally assisted her , but everybody gives her credit for , not only working in New York , but it actually was not Federal legislation , they had to work state by state . |
| 8 | Nourse J ( as he then was ) took the view that the decision itself had to provide evidence of error , without assistance from cross-examination , and that in this case there was sufficient evidence . |
| 9 | The old and the weak had to counter strength with cunning . |
| 10 | In the first two years of office she had to give way to Cabinet pressure on pay rises for MPs , the scale of public spending cuts in November 1981 , gas prices , the Rhodesian settlement , the compromise on the EEC budget ( faced with the implicit resignation of Lord Carrington , who had negotiated it , if she did not accept ) and , while Mr Prior was at Employment , action against trade union immunities and the closed shop . |
| 11 | Following article in the last issue on ‘ returning to work ’ felt that there was another side to the coin and felt she had to put pen to paper to balance out various viewpoints . |
| 12 | The Cabinet , for its part , had to put policy before Parliament , and had to supervise the implementation of legislation through the control and coordination of the civil servants working in the departments of state . |
| 13 | To score runs they had to put bat to ball — a realisation which came all too late . |
| 14 | ‘ We had to fight fire with fire . |
| 15 | Two Southend players missed the team bus and had to fly north in time for kickoff . |
| 16 | Had to have butter at supper , which I refused to eat . |
| 17 | Progress within bondage had to take precedence over liberation to secure the safety of any eventual freedom . |
| 18 | they had to take Contrast into account . |
| 19 | I scratched everywhere but my face , and Mandy had to take absence from work to take care of me . |
| 20 | I had to take time off work , which did n't go down too well with the furniture store which employed me , and I was promptly given the sack . |
| 21 | Kylie admits that the tour of the chic boutiques in Paris , London and New York gave the sisters a chance to catch up on a lot of the times they had missed when the demands of television companies just had to take priority over family . |
| 22 | True to form , fate struck again when in December 1989 the new foster mother had to undergo surgery for breast cancer . |
| 23 | The Privy Council on 26 February authorised the Bank to refuse cash payments , and the country banks had to follow suit by tendering Bank of England notes in the stead of gold . |
| 24 | When she got home she had to boil spaghetti in acqua minerale . |
| 25 | Thus the church made its past its own : the martyrs were made present in time ; but they also had to become present in space . |