Example sentences of "had [to-vb] the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | At each town the Captain had to greet the mayor and they tucked in to an excellent meal afterwards . |
| 2 | So I had to arrange the funeral and so on . |
| 3 | Councillors agreed that in view of the large petition they had to meet the objectors and there will be a site visit . |
| 4 | To gain recognition unions had to accept the logic and rules of the capitalist system . |
| 5 | This meant a lot of work with the Treasury solicitor 's office ; but it did mean that the commissioner had to write the report and not us , so there was something to be said for the arrangement . |
| 6 | He had to reach the basement and take out the Control in order to ensure the success of the entire operation . |
| 7 | and er he he used to ring the bell and he used to clean he had to clean the church and all the rest of it you know . |
| 8 | With the viewfinder on the camera I had to set the distance and hope when I was shooting , that the shark was at that range . |
| 9 | He lost all his money and had to sell the farm and go and work in an abattoir in Vienna . |
| 10 | I had to buy The People and The News of the World which was then even more of a scandal sheet than it is today . |
| 11 | ‘ But I had to buy the hat and tie . |
| 12 | But , at fourteen , my job was to er I had to fetch the coal and the sticks , to light the er stove that held the irons , and er they they were er d I I Like I had to go to the coalhouse which was down fourteen steps , the steps were wooden ones , outside the upper floor , where we worked . |
| 13 | The jack plug was soldered on — which meant you could n't pull the lead out , you had to wrap the plug and lead around the neck before you could put it away . |
| 14 | The man , bound hand and foot , was pinioned to a sheet of hard-boiled leather , which the two horses pulled across the mud : the man screamed as the hard ground battered his naked back , while he had to endure the taunts and filth hurled by the onlookers , the strictures of the city officials and the droning monotony of the praying priest . |
| 15 | The translator says there was no food for us , we had to cross the border and come to Afghanistan . |
| 16 | Last , I had to help the peasant and working-class boys who had been forced to go to university with no background education whatsoever . |
| 17 | It meant we had to chase the game and it left more room for their two dangerous strikers . |
| 18 | A lot of them brought bacon and eggs but you had to cook it and they had to leave the pans and things clean when they left — so it was always a rush job and all policemen suffered from bad stomachs . |
| 19 | and the skin you just had to press the skin and , and the oh it was all , you know you could just |
| 20 | That was better for us because it 's in the next district and meant they had to do the work and not us . ’ |
| 21 | So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force . |
| 22 | I was eyeballing distances at that time , and had no real idea how far Roberto had to clear the out-of-bounds and a wee bank that ran round the hole , but we had a strong breeze behind us going from right to left . |
| 23 | This is largely because , once incorporated into the academy , this study had to adopt the values and principles of the academy , and develop as the institution developed . |
| 24 | To attract the best patrons the movie-houses had to ape the conventions and the standards of theatres and opera-houses but very quickly the whole industry realized that the appeal of the movie palaces was not unrelated to the fact that all customers had to be treated the same and so they became temples of a new classlessness . |
| 25 | I still found I had to keep the Contour and Treble rotaries backed completely off , and the Bass right up to get anything like a ‘ normal ’ lead guitar sound . |
| 26 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 27 | Because of the weight of the finished panels , I had to assemble the sides and build the roof in situ , so I enlisted some help . |
| 28 | The men only had to scrape the ship and careen her , recaulk her seams and overhaul her rigging in readiness for the voyage home to market . |
| 29 | Dr El-Essawy , of the more moderate Muslims , said Mr Rushdie only had to withdraw the book and Muslims would give up their campaign . |
| 30 | The Cheshires enjoyed no such luxury and had to control the anger and revulsion that engulfed them as they experienced the horror for real . |