Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But before they reached the other side , Caesar cried out to Cassius for help , so Cassius had to carry him to safety . |
| 2 | We also had to provide them with lunch at 2.30 pm . |
| 3 | He remembered that Firelight had to feed it with milk , but where she kept it he had no idea . |
| 4 | Every morning we were read a verse from the Bible and had to remember it by heart . |
| 5 | The tribunal had to discharge him from hospital . |
| 6 | The boiler did n't fill automatic , you had you had to fill it with water . |
| 7 | They always had to do them on Boxing Day , so that the letters went into the first possible post after Christmas . |
| 8 | Eddie had to do it with SKILL . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm one of those people who can eat and drink what I like and not put on weight , so I had to do it by weight training and build up the muscle weight , ’ he adds . |
| 10 | And we had the pit ponies and where we did n't have the pit ponies drawing the hutches , which we termed the small wagons carrying the coal from the coal face to the pit bottom , then er we had to do it by hand . |
| 11 | I think they 've all got their own washing machines on the ward and that sort of thing , whereas we had to do it by hand and then bundle it all up and send it down to the laundry . |
| 12 | But they lied to me and I had to do it in English . |
| 13 | I had to do it in self-defence , or else he would have killed me . |
| 14 | Actually the last time I was stood up on a platform and did this was in front of erm a S G T congress in Dieppe and I tell you I had to do it in French , and it was much more difficult so I 'm hoping this one will go smoothly , but I , what I 'd really like to do is begin with is offer you erm delegates and platform both , a very very warm welcome from the trade union movement in Portsmouth . |
| 15 | I had to put you to bed . ’ |
| 16 | She was so badly tortured that the authorities had to send her to hospital . |
| 17 | Some people at school said look how Mother Francis never gives out to Eve , she 's the real pet ; others said the nuns had to keep her for charity and did n't like her as much as they liked the other girls whose families all contributed something to the upkeep of St Mary 's . |
| 18 | When your family members went mad these days you had to keep them at home , and whatever the sound policies , on the part of the government , which lay behind this decision , it was undoubtedly inconvenient for those upon whom would fall the burden of caring for the deranged . |
| 19 | The use of conventional solders to attach minute granules of gold presented great difficulties to the goldsmith who had to keep them in position during soldering and avoid flooding the delicate work with solder . |
| 20 | You had to address him as Sergeant : ‘ All correct , Sergeant . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ My mother is almost here and she would be startled if I had to kiss you into silence . |
| 22 | Ronnie therefore had to finish it on site , spending the best part of a week-end in the palace perfecting the pattern march and joining the last of the pieces together . |
| 23 | we knew that , and we had to sing it in French . |
| 24 | There is a very strong link between the list that I have read out and the authorities whose councillors advocated non-payment — Lambeth , for instance , whose councillors were so bad that even the Labour party had to remove them from office . |
| 25 | When he reported for duty in Simla , then the headquarters of the meteorological department , he had no knowledge of the subject ; he had to learn it by reading , guided by senior staff . |
| 26 | They had to learn it from school , or from people out on the street . |
| 27 | At the next opportunity we were on our way to the Station Bomb Dump in the truck which J. had to get him around camp . |
| 28 | We had to get her into hospital quick . |
| 29 | Headed by the USSR President and comprising as before the Presidents of the union republics , but with the addition of the USSR Vice-President and the Presidents of the 20 autonomous republics * ; upgraded from a consultative to an executive body , responsible for co-ordinating the work of the central and republican governments , ensuring observance of the Union Treaty , and resolving inter-ethnic and inter-republican disputes ; Council resolutions needed a two-thirds majority , and were binding on the President ( who had to enact them by decree ) and on all republics . |
| 30 | She 'd got into a lot of trouble over many little things , for instance , her clothes in the changing room were being thrown down in a pool of water , and was soaking wet , she had to take them to matron to be dried , matron was cross . |