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 . |