Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Clarice Cliff was a hard taskmistress — I had to report to her every day — but she took great interest in the progress of young trainees and her husband , Colley Shorter , the chairman of her company , arranged for me to take day classes at Newcastle College of Art when I was doing National Service with the RAF stationed in Northumberland , ’ he recounted . |
| 2 | So Coffin had to work on him a bit first to get him to think laterally . |
| 3 | We had to work on it a great deal . |
| 4 | In his first term he had to write for him an essay on the art of poetry . |
| 5 | During the interviews I tried to probe whether what was meant was the ageing of the population , a change of atmosphere , the community 's material demise or what ; but on occasion I had to guess at what the informant really meant . |
| 6 | But she did let slip that she had to curtsey to her every day and say : ‘ Good morning Your Highness . ’ |
| 7 | So the missionary had to try to take the place of the doctor and the nurse , and had to keep with him a stock of basic medicines — iodine , castor oil , Epsom salts , santonin ( for worms ) , quinine tablets for malaria , and a plentiful supply of aspirin in which the village people seemed to have a great faith . |
| 8 | I had to convey to her a slight warning , though … ’ |
| 9 | They travelled extensively , but he had to pander to her every whim . |
| 10 | In spite of all the centuries which he had to learn about it the traditional ship-wright seemed to be unable to understand about shear . |
| 11 | Yeah , one look at him and even I had to say to myself the ladies , the poor ladies . |
| 12 | Yeah he do n't eat too many he likes he like they but he wo n't erm I had to say to him the other night . |
| 13 | by er , mind you they 'd always been children that had had to fend for themselves a lot , the only sad thing |