Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were n't allowed to have a hearse , you had to carry them to the church , and er er we used to b bury them by lamp light . |
| 2 | I had to carry her over the wall , can you imagine , to get her to my rooms . |
| 3 | I fell down in a kind of madness , and they had to carry me from the room . |
| 4 | Anyway today we had the scene where Matt had to hit me with the paddle sort of semi-accidentally . |
| 5 | I had to isolate her from the rest . ’ |
| 6 | Now , somehow holding a piton with his useless hand , he had to hammer it into the rock with the other . |
| 7 | He got out of the planes coming , we , we was coming over from de Laborgie and you give him the needle and I had to lead him off the lead him off the plane , and going down over the chimneys in Chantilly to landu Laborgie he goes , woo ooh ooh , getting ready you know . |
| 8 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 9 | The cylinders were causing minor explosions and we had to tackle it from the outside , using the protection of adjoining buildings and cars . |
| 10 | The previous type may then have become invalid , and coin users presumably had to replace it with the new one , a troublesome process , as the volume of some types ran into millions of coins . |
| 11 | Now , cos I mean do n't forget originally we used to take milk out twice a day , morning and night , because you had to fetch it from the farm . |
| 12 | He tipped up her chin so she had to look him in the eyes but she pulled her face away . |
| 13 | They had to help me into the house and let me rest in a chair . |
| 14 | He had to be assisted as he flayed himself , but he got most of the skin off as easily as a cardigan , and the minister only had to help him with the last few strips . |
| 15 | Friends took her home , but they then had to chase her down the street as she fled from her flat . |
| 16 | Dick and the nurses told him that , even after the pre-med , they had to chase him round the ward to get him to remove his shorts . |
| 17 | Well , you had to give it to the kid for determination . |
| 18 | ‘ But I already have an assault charge hanging over me , so in the end I had to leave it to the stewards . |
| 19 | I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure . |
| 20 | ‘ Our children had to do it in the Cultural Revolutiion ten years later . |
| 21 | ‘ I did n't know I had to put it on the meat — ’ |
| 22 | And I had to put it on the seat of my bicycle , push it all the way and it 'd be a good mile from Street to right across from . |
| 23 | I had to put it on the floor to work the door bar and once I had it open , I slid it out with my foot . |
| 24 | When you used anything , you had to put it in the Book . |
| 25 | And you had to put it in the letter box , you dare n't leave it in the in the . |
| 26 | Started to make some biscuits and then read the recipe afterwards and she had to put it in the fridge for twenty four hours in the , the pastry in the fridge so they could n't make the biscuits , there I 'm sitting here expecting erm , a biscuit and nothing came , dear , it was n't one of those recipes that you could make it straight away was it ? |
| 27 | And then they decide , found out they had to put it in the fridge for twenty four hours , so there was I sitting there expecting a biscuit , I did n't get one . |
| 28 | A hurricane lamp and a pinpoint of light from a torch were all the girls had to guide them across the sleepers and rails . |
| 29 | ‘ I kept sending the demands back and when I went in I was told not to worry , they had to send them to the last known address . |
| 30 | More traumatic still , James Prior , with the greatest reluctance , was forced to move from Employment to the exile of Northern Ireland , even though Mrs Thatcher had to keep him on the Cabinet 's main economic forum , the E Committee . |