Example sentences of "had [to-vb] a [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I emerged I had to borrow a pair of chef 's trousers , ’ he admitted . |
| 2 | But first they had to play a series of odd games , working out the rules for each one in turn , playing each one to a conclusion , without cheating or colluding . |
| 3 | While the single-centre institutions found it somewhat easier to adopt the mantle of RMC , inevitably some of the multi-centre RMCs found their development delayed by management problems , especially where they were composed of a number of colleges which had to negotiate a series of complex mergers before they could start . |
| 4 | To reach Madame de Rochefort 's suite , they had to traverse a series of other rooms , most of them shuttered to exclude the sun . |
| 5 | Got a got a pair of twos there ee by heck ! for four and a pair is six well I think I 'll have I 'm afraid two eights , two o , two eights , two tens and then nine did n't ask for that but I had to throw a pair of twos away for that and go in there you go . |