Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of this went to Hull for export , but trains for Lancashire had to go up the formidable Worsborough bank avoiding Barnsley , and joining the main line just south of Penistone . |
| 2 | This was the first opportunity we had to try out the new personalisation facility with the agents ’ mailing . |
| 3 | They went to total excess and then they had to come back the other way . |
| 4 | That road led only to self-destruction — she should know that better than anyone … only had to conjure up the sad , embittered look in her mother 's hazel eyes to realise the depths of pain such an entanglement could cause . |
| 5 | Saturdays made no difference to us , for there was no school then , but on Wednesdays some of us had to stand up the whole way to Parma . |
| 6 | But if you would n't tell me I had to find out the only way I could , ’ Travis explained , tightening his arms about her . |
| 7 | I had to find out the hard way — to coin a phrase . |
| 8 | First he had to sort out the embarrassed financial affairs of his brother John , which had been neglected by the latter whilst working for the Company . |
| 9 | Six o'clock in the morning , I had to clean out the Danish piggeries . |
| 10 | De Montfort 's men had to march up the northern scarp , but they still seem to have taken the royal forces , camped down in the priory grounds , by surprise . |
| 11 | They had to walk down the long straight street past Shea 's pub with its sour smell of drink coming out on to the street from behind its dark windows , past Birdie Mac 's sweet shop where they had spent so much time choosing from jars all their school life . |
| 12 | The company had to give up the surplus stock it had accumulated at the expense of the public creditors and rescind its claims to be paid in full for the amount it had sold , but the real victims were the public creditors , who had to reconcile themselves to drastic losses in income and capital . |
| 13 | I was surrounded by a crowd of shouting , gesticulating Malts , who pulled at my parachute , lifted my head and drove me so furious that I had to give up the dying idea in order to concentrate completely on kicking every Malt who came within range . |
| 14 | However I had to learn to delegate responsibility and realize that in climbing the executive ladder one had to give up the basic satisfaction of creative production . |
| 15 | The minister , Mr Nicholas Ridley , had to leave out the expected bill because of the Government 's heavy legislative programme . |
| 16 | Sussex , Hampshire and Dorset police reported numerous accidents and ferries had to ride out the high seas until winds dropped to safe levels . |
| 17 | Well I think a , they , knock , had to knock down the old brown hall |
| 18 | Well he had to switch on the interior light to be able to fill out the form . |
| 19 | Above all , he had to speed up the protracted constitutional timetable of his predecessor . |
| 20 | They were allowed in by his father but then had to break down the locked bedroom door . |
| 21 | ‘ We had to take out the affected computer and rent another . |
| 22 | The ESC , however , threatened to stay away from the Civic in future if they had to make up the lost revenue . |