Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was surely the coldest and draughtiest station in the country , and I always had to wait there about midnight ; and I used to pray that the train would stop with a door opposite to me , so that I should have some chance of getting on at all . |
| 2 | One never had to go far in search of the movies ; like the masses themselves they were rapidly achieving ubiquity . |
| 3 | It 's been difficult in = thing that you had to go home at night and keep watering like , your not doing anything else but watering , watering |
| 4 | It was a small farm and I think Mr Green had to work away from home sometimes to bring a bit more money in . |
| 5 | For although we frequently find in paintings of this period that a number of consecutive scenes are represented simultaneously in one picture , in other ways temporal considerations came to exert a decisive influence — in particular , causing painting a secco to replace al fresco , or true fresco , since the very long apprenticeship that pupils had to serve before they became proficient in fresco painting could not be maintained , and a successful painter had to work fast in order to handle all the commissions that he received . |
| 6 | Most of Rodin 's drawings are undated , unsigned and untitled , so she had to work virtually from scratch . |
| 7 | Tom himself said it was because he had to work hard at school at subjects other than music , he could not devote himself wholeheartedly to the flute . |
| 8 | He was a guest on This is Your Life , and I introduced him first as Peggy Ashdown , and then had to concentrate hard in case I called him Paddy Ashcroft … |
| 9 | Sorry , I should explain to the committee that I was informed that the secretary who normally does the minutes for the half past one was sick , and had , she 'd been sent home by her doctor at lunch time , so I came back from lunch and had to come straight into committee , and I do apologize if I have missed bits of paper or whatever , I 've gathered up everything I could , but that might well be one of the things that I 've left behind . |
| 10 | In addition to being the party representing the interests of wealthier people , Mrs Thatcher 's Conservative governments of the 1980s argued that the UK 's competitive position was so difficult that the interests of production had to come firmly before redistribution . |
| 11 | I had to come home by carrier 's cart . |
| 12 | They had to stand practically from morning to night outside the big department stores and theatres with heavy collecting boxes , asking for donations . |
| 13 | ‘ So is business good ? ’ he enquired , refusing to release the shiny bag , so that Robyn had to stand awkwardly in front of him in all her glorious finery and feel a hundred times worse than ever because his eyes were wandering over her face , travelling lazily down the length of her body , taking in every depressing detail . |
| 14 | In order to keep the boys separate from the girls he used to draw a chalk line down the middle of our meeting room , and when we got carried away and crossed the line he would burst into a ferocious rage , pick up anything that was to hand — usually a book — and throw it at the offender , who had to duck fast in order not to be hit . |
| 15 | He found that harem males in herds had to walk farther per day to nourish themselves than did members of a lone all-male group . |
| 16 | Cos I had to walk home from school today . |
| 17 | In early life he was employed by Mr R S Woulfe , a Methodist merchant in household and Mr Donovan was converted and had to leave home for employment in the North of Ireland . |
| 18 | The Course abandoned the use of triple and quadruple modules at the time of the 1984 CNAA resubmission for reasons that had to do both with inflexibility for student programmes and with the risk of student failure . |
| 19 | Anna had to get there by marriage |
| 20 | She had to stay here to midnight . |
| 21 | She always had to stay alone on weekday afternoons , and whenever she was told to shut up , she had to shut up . |
| 22 | Pryce had to rely heavily on memory : |
| 23 | When Castro 's men captured Havana we had to rely completely on newspaper and radio reports , from Cuba itself and from other countries , about what was happening … |
| 24 | Owen cursed and tried to wriggle his way round , failed and had to cut across in front of the donkeys laden with bread and water to give to the poor at the tomb . |