Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for three hours singers , orchestra and audience ( many of the latter stading ) had to wait impatiently in the overheated atmosphere until the opera should begin . |
| 2 | He had to come home in the ambulance , and had a bed downstairs for the daytime , but managed to go upstairs to bed at night . |
| 3 | More than half a century after that , Sir William Temple , one of the outstanding English diplomats of the seventeenth century , had to struggle repeatedly in the 1660s and early 1670s to obtain arrears of salary and repayment for the expenses he had incurred , and he is merely the best-known of many similar cases . |
| 4 | ‘ Historically , people have looked to Europe as a place to make up the profit margins they had to give away in the States , ’ Apple spokesperson Frank O'Mahoney admitted to me immediately before launching into a lengthy explanation of how computer prices in Europe are now tumbling to less obscene levels . |
| 5 | It should have started at Brands Hatch , but Jackie crashed it and had to race again in the 003 . |
| 6 | ‘ I adored Bristol and if I had to live anywhere in the world , I would come back and live here . |
| 7 | As the unsatisfactoriness of the exercise was clearly not due to any limitations on the part of the participants , it had to lie squarely in the design of the exercise itself . |
| 8 | Bernard took the matter of the offending questionnaire to the union forthwith : the local dispute quickly turned national : Bernard spoke to the press , rallied his colleagues ; but alas , all too many wanted no more than a quiet life : Bernard confided that sometimes he had to eat alone in the staff dining room . |
| 9 | The pilot was winched to safety after Saturday 's crash , but the Paramount Studios staff had to stay overnight in the crater . |