Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a few benches round the edge , but most people had to sit on their small bundles on the floor of the plane . |
| 2 | We each had to sit in our own chair . |
| 3 | Servants hurried around , to the shrieked orders of officials , and they had to tend to their own horses in the now emptying stables . |
| 4 | Confronted with a score of 350 we then had to contend with their venomous opening attack of Vaughan ‘ Hungry ’ Walsh ( very fast ) and John ‘ Dentist ’ Maynard ( quite fast ) , who were formidable by any standards . |
| 5 | With the rest of the household she also had to contend with his uncertain temper and even wilder moments during occasional drinking bouts . |
| 6 | Such energy as he had to spare from his clerical duties was expended on the cultivation of orchids for which he enjoyed a national reputation . |
| 7 | Well they got to court without a solicitor cos they were n't entitled to Legal Aid , and now you see that 's another thing , they 're both out of work , they were n't entitled to any Legal Aid , so they had to go on their own to court |
| 8 | I had to go on my own and ring the doorbell with an easel and canvas under my arm and I did n't know what to wear . |
| 9 | Because come somebody saying , and just giving me them , I had to go through them all . |
| 10 | ‘ A couple of years ago we realised we had to invest in our own training programme , ’ said Ben Stocks , UK general manager and group marketing manager for the business , part of Courtaulds Coatings . |
| 11 | The days on Capitol Hill when she had to paint in her limited spare time seem far off now . |
| 12 | She also had to work in her spare time to help pay for her studies . |
| 13 | I knew she had to come to me each time , it was just a case of sticking it out . |
| 14 | Just as the Central Swiss communities around the Vierwaldstattersee had to struggle for their independent rights against the Austrian Hapsburgs , their confederates to the west of Bern had to confront the might of the Burgundian realm . |
| 15 | It must have been very galling for Major , when he established membership of the A-Team to write the election manifesto , that he had to choose for it those very men who are most likely to profit from his failure . |
| 16 | Leith got started on her work , doubting very much that they would so much as catch a glimpse of their new ‘ colleagues ’ , but she had to smile at his quaint terminology for the higher ranks . |
| 17 | Is the Minister aware that if the Wakefield district council social services department had to stick to its standard spending assessment it would have to save a further £3 million this year on services for the chronically sick and disabled ? |
| 18 | over every week for the groceries you see , had to stick to your own grocer did n't you ? |
| 19 | You only had to look at her greasy black hair , her insolent stare and her creased and spotted uniform . |
| 20 | Erm Isaac Azimov writes er , rather amusingly about this , he says why did , why did Weismann bother , he said Weismann was Jewish , of course , Weismann knew that since time immemorial , er , Jewish little boys have been having their foreskins chopped off , Weismann only had to look at his own children , when they were born , to see that even Jewish little boys are born with foreskins . |
| 21 | He just had to look after her all the time . |
| 22 | We also had to look after our own ship , often plunging and breaking ropes alongside the larger vessels , prepare our own meals and keep the ship clean . |
| 23 | As soon as the war was over , Hungary had to revert to its 1918 frontiers . |
| 24 | Father had to draw on his modest savings . |
| 25 | She was probably delighted that someone else had to submit to his unsavoury needs now and then . |
| 26 | You would n't if you , you would n't if you had to deal with it all day long |
| 27 | However , the farmer 's wife often had to deal on her own with callers and only 15% felt able to cope . |
| 28 | I just had to put in my ten pence , dial without thinking and see what happened . |
| 29 | She had to send for him New Year 's Day for Vince ! |
| 30 | Just a merest glimpse at the trade papers reveals the extent to which from the start the movies had to fight against their own impulses and their own logic . |