Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [prep] [det] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I had to wait at most a couple of minutes before Dennis opened the back door , walked across to the garage , unlocked it , swung the door up and stepped inside .
2 The women , too , had to cope with all the household duties , including feeding men and hired hands with appetites honed by constant fresh air and exercise , with none of the labour-saving aids which most women took for granted .
3 You had to search through half the estate to gather a pound of coffee for 2 colones .
4 Stunned by the sensation , she had to search for all the willpower she possessed not to let her reaction show in her expression .
5 You had to go through all the misery and raise it with the danger of leaks all the time in some of the central international establishments in America .
6 You see the thing is you see I mean wh wh when this law came out , LAUTRO and all that business came out that , and best advice and all this sort of thing you had to go through all the finances and what people earned and all that sort of thing .
7 For example , after picking the first letter of a word they were seeking , users had to scroll through all the words in the database beginning with that letter to find what they were after .
8 I had to look through all the rest and take what I wanted .
9 The US White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater had meanwhile ( according to Le Monde of March 26 ) said that it would not be sufficient for Libya to hand the two men over to the Arab League ; Libya had to comply with all the demands that had been referred to in Resolution 731 [ see ICJ verdict below ] .
10 He was an outcast among outcasts and proud of it ; it did n't mean he had to believe in all the mumbo-jumbo .
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