Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Oh , we had to wait at the border , we had in advance to get visas , and when we got there , things were very simple but nonetheless , we were very well received , and the person that I was staying with , lived in a flat , a very simple flat , but nonetheless , a very pleasant flat . |
| 32 | In many cases the actual amount of information given in the recalls was minimal , limited to whether a subject had to wait at the junction and whether there was other traffic around at the time . |
| 33 | The decorative potential of ivory and its pleasant feel were first explored by Upper Palaeolithic man , but more sophisticated uses of the material had to wait on the development of more complex societies marked by more or less pronounced hierarchies . |
| 34 | From there we went in a funny little train with open trucks which fascinated Tim , until we got to a railway junction where we had to wait on the station for some hours for another train to take us to Calcutta . |
| 35 | Substantial supplies had to wait on the mining of reefs first found as late as 1880 outcropping on the Tawmaw plateau . |
| 36 | The males then returned inland , but the females had to wait in the burrows for a further two weeks while their fertilised eggs matured . |
| 37 | So he had to wait in the house and er now it 's bed time now . |
| 38 | The British had to wait until the end of the 1930s for that luxury . |
| 39 | These repairs had to wait until the time of Haymo of Hythe , or as he was to be known as Haymo of Hythe . |
| 40 | Trains had to wait upon the cows and were frequently late in consequence : |
| 41 | He had to report to the headmaster at four o'clock , and was taken there by force by Foggerty who caught him racing for the school gates when the bell went . |
| 42 | He had to report to the Depot and School of the Airborne Forces , then occupying Hardwick Hall , near Chesterfield in Derbyshire . |
| 43 | He had to hunch over the wheel to see anything . |
| 44 | Well , what I had to do , I had to swim under the water |
| 45 | we had , we had to swim to the bottom and do like a handstand |
| 46 | Britain is not in debt to the IMF , so the advice is entirely optional , but there are unpleasant echoes of the mid-1970s when Denis Healey had to borrow from the IMF to support the pound and was publicly forced to accept its advice to control the money supply and raise interest rates . |
| 47 | Unfortunately , ’ she went on , her voice heavy with sarcasm , ‘ he never actually got round to marrying my mother so , on top of everything else , she had to cope with the stigma of an illegitimate child . ’ |
| 48 | During a career that started with junk TV through small film roles to her current stardom , Michelle also had to cope with the breakup of her marriage to Peter Horton , the star of American TV show Thirtysomething , which is now screened in Britain . |
| 49 | The people there not only had to cope with the incidents themselves but living down the bad reputation . |
| 50 | Vietnamese Communism had to cope with the problems of economic reconstruction in an area devastated by the years of war , and also with the integration of the South into the methods of social administration and economic management that were used in the North . |
| 51 | Rural communities were still the main focus for most Japanese , but even rural communities had to cope with the exigencies of the drive to industrialize . |
| 52 | Anyone with a spark of humanity would want to help a poor girl left defenceless and hard up , especially when she had to cope with the rearing of a young child , single handed . |
| 53 | Women had to cope with the dark , smelly ‘ cabinets ’ and first invite the rats to leave through the crumbling rusty holes . |
| 54 | After three years , during which he had to cope with the death of his youngest son , Mr Mathew was denied leave to appeal against the March 1984 judgment . |
| 55 | The period continued in the 1950s with the operation of the planning system proving capable of responding to a range of local situations , before , in the 1960s , it had to cope with the pressures of a housing boom , commercial redevelopment , a feared city thrombosis through increase in traffic circulation , and renewed problems from regional disparities . |
| 56 | Okay Suzanne , now you had to slacken off the halyard to let me tie that last knot so if you could tighten it up again that will pull the sail up to the top of the mast . |
| 57 | There had been no retaliation by the MacIans , but they all knew they were ready for it if any had come , and who to thank for the readiness ; and no-one mentioned who they had to thank for the threat . |
| 58 | But they then had to contend with the response that faith itself might be interpreted as an ‘ inner work ’ , a good deed of the mind . |
| 59 | I Branches without women rivals now sided with Glasgow in demanding a campaign to exclude women for good , while branches such as Edinburgh , who had to contend with the problem , tried to go on arguing for some form of recognition of women workers . |
| 60 | Its interest lies in its function as the creed of a reforming élite , confronted with the difficulties of a state-sponsored economic revival in an under-developed economy , a revival that had to contend with the resistances of the traditional structure and the misrepresentations of a peculiarly narrow Catholic conservatism . |