Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus while first-class patronage was encouraged , and more businessmen complained bitterly that they had to go first-class in order to enjoy their British breakfast , more humble individuals who merely wanted to enjoy the view from the train were not so generously treated . |
| 2 | I had to go direct from home to interview an important witness . |
| 3 | The Duke had to appear confident of victory or else every waverer in his army would run to be with the Emperor and the winning side . |
| 4 | and he thinks because I 've he 's pleaded had to plead guilty in court |
| 5 | In the chemistry I did you seem to me to be terribly empirical , you had an inorganic substance and you had to learn absolute by heart what it did if you put it in water and you heated it and you did this that and the other . |
| 6 | In each case it is evident that physical geographers had to become conversant with progress in related disciplines and a number of excellent papers in Progress in Physical Geography ( 1977- ) provide reports reflecting progress in other disciplines . |