Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leaders had their work cut out keeping the group together , and one or both had to remain at the back to motivate the slower ones — the most effective method seemed to be carrying their kit , though this tended to be a last resort . |
| 2 | My baby had to remain at the nursing home , as I had no one to look after him , and he was not admitted into hospital because of whooping-cough in the nursery there . |
| 3 | Their clothes were locked away so they had to remain in the dormitory . |
| 4 | As an air-raid had just begun they could not leave and had to remain in an ambience where , as they now acutely realised , they were not wanted and did not belong . |
| 5 | Designated children had to fall within the age ranges 3–4 years or 16–18 years and to have been under the care or formal supervision of the local authority for at least six months . |
| 6 | I took a turn on a rope slide and had to sit on a tractor tyre on the way down . |
| 7 | It was during the filming of the opening titles for the last ‘ Marti ’ series for the B.B.C. Dressed in a red chiffon evening gown , high heels and lead-weighted knickers , I had to sit on a rock at the bottom of a tank full of sharks , smiling and brushing my hair , while Duncan swam past with a plywood plaice bearing the immortal words ‘ End of Part One ’ ( it could have been the end of several parts ! ) . |
| 8 | One of us had to sit on the floor of the phone box while the other stood up and rested on the shelf where you open out the directories . |
| 9 | So , they could n't get it into their heads that you had to sit on the floor . |
| 10 | You know that that 's about all the room there was was honestly was a table and chairs and more often than not a couple of us had to sit on the stairs . |
| 11 | ‘ Sometimes I had to sit on the tobacco setter , putting plants in the ground , but one summer was enough for me , ’ she recalls . |
| 12 | Had to go back to the school — had to sit amongst the probationers , and then after the school , he was posted right from one side of the city to the other . |
| 13 | Very few people ever left the isolation hospital and visitors had to sit behind a glass screen . |
| 14 | To make matters worse it was generally believed that the spirit of the child would remain in the body of the mother , and so for three days after the actual birth the mother had to sit by a wood and bamboo fire and sweat out the child 's spirit so that the child should be completed and the mother freed from what was now an alien spirit inside her . |
| 15 | Gedanken had to sit in a seat opposite Chris Parker . |
| 16 | Apparently they all had to sit in a circle and put their hands on the playing board . |
| 17 | We had to sit in the waiting room with everyone else . |
| 18 | She had to sit in the waiting-room , on a slippery horsehair sofa , while it was going on . |
| 19 | We had to sit in the shade out the road a bit |
| 20 | I knew that if I had to drive to the park or into the country first , then the walking would never get done except at weekends . |
| 21 | She had to drive to the end of the street to turn round ; when she passed Giles 's house on the way back the door was closed . |
| 22 | Competitors had to drive around the country 's top racing circuits within the five-day time period . |
| 23 | Faced with the threat of losing its Parliamentary representatives the NAC had to agree to a plebiscite of the membership on the issue . |
| 24 | The Easter Rising in Dublin and the government 's abortive plan to rush through a Home Rule settlement caused an even greater furore ; this time Bonar Law had to agree to a meeting of the Central Council , but only alter the cabinet had dropped the Home Rule idea , and with a stipulation in advance that questions would be allowed but not resolutions . |
| 25 | All had to agree to the investment , and at the last minute Stockport , the only council where Labour had lost overall control to a mixture of Tories and Liberals , vetoed the decision . |
| 26 | However , the Khmers Rouges opposed the Sihanouk-Hun Sen arrangement , arguing that the SOC had to agree to the UN plan in full . |
| 27 | A man in Chippenham , Wilts , had to clamber on the roof of his car after being marooned by floods . |
| 28 | As they crossed to the supermarket they had to wait as an assistant wearing a jacket over his uniform wheeled a long line of trolleys from a loading bay into the store . |
| 29 | Eventually , well into the afternoon , we found the route — but had to wait for a couple who pushed in front claiming they were ‘ HVS climbers ’ and would not take long . |
| 30 | He reached it without mishap but had to wait for a while , watching the day begin , until the ferrymaster arrived . |