Example sentences of "had [to-vb] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their clothes were locked away so they had to remain in the dormitory . |
| 2 | We had to sit in the waiting room with everyone else . |
| 3 | She had to sit in the waiting-room , on a slippery horsehair sofa , while it was going on . |
| 4 | We had to sit in the shade out the road a bit |
| 5 | The males then returned inland , but the females had to wait in the burrows for a further two weeks while their fertilised eggs matured . |
| 6 | So he had to wait in the house and er now it 's bed time now . |
| 7 | had to go in the day . |
| 8 | I had occasion to set up the chunky machine ( this had to go in the bedroom , because of lack of space elsewhere ) . |
| 9 | So the two of us went off to Peel and er anyway they paid us , they paid for our lunch and er and so that was alright and of course I had to go in the witness box , you see and swear on the bible , you know , the whole truth , nothing but the truth , you see . |
| 10 | But I had to go in the loft . |
| 11 | That 's punishment , yeah , they would either do that or there was one driver down there he broke a wheel , that were n't his fault , and he had to pay for it , he had to go in the office like I did once . |
| 12 | I had to go in the office every Friday night and I was only earning about two pounds seventeen and six a week and they use and Deputy Harbourmaster , Captain , he say , how much you earned this week he say , three pound , I 'm asking you four he say , well they 'd take it off you and er you 'd be paying it now , takes about six months , and he old Harbourmaster see you about the quay he said . |
| 13 | If a docker , you got to help the dockers down the hold , if you ai n't got the crane driving to do , you had to go in the warehouse if there ai n't nothing to do . |
| 14 | He had to work in the knowledge that he could be reported to the Inquisition at any time , when his writings would become the subject of serious scrutiny . |
| 15 | Before they gave me a bike I had to earn it , I had to work in the garden . |
| 16 | And she had to come in the car while I |
| 17 | Post-war interviews carried out by the United States Strategic Bombing Survey , confirmed such impressions : one out of three Germans indicated that his morale was affected by bombing more than any other single factor ; nine in ten of those interviewed mentioned bombing as the greatest hardship they had to suffer in the war ; three in five admitted to war-weariness on account of the bombing , and the percentage not wanting to go on with the war was significantly higher in heavily bombed than unbombed towns ; more than two-fifths said they lost hope in German victory when the raids did not stop ; and the percentage of people with confidence in the leadership was fourteen per cent lower in heavily bombed than in unbombed towns . |
| 18 | He enjoyed the fury , not always speechless , of the good Conservatives who occasionally had to stand in the corridor , popping their eyes at this spectacle of enthroned privilege . |
| 19 | The same thing always happened to him at school if he was brought out to the front of the hall for talking in assembly , or if he had to stand in the aisle with his hands on his head for not paying attention in class . |
| 20 | He explained she had to stand in the wings directing the beam of a torch at a strategically placed mirror which would send a reflection of light dancing across the back-cloth of Never-Never Land . |
| 21 | I had to stand in the middle of this studio , the floor strewn with these bones and meat , and play guitar . |
| 22 | Gazzer only had to stand in the middle of the towpath and wait as the man approached him . |
| 23 | Several hundred mourners had to stand in the grounds where the service , conducted by the judge 's brother , Monsignor Laurence Higgins , was relayed outside by loudspeakers . |
| 24 | Not content with just the interminable Benson and Hedges World Series Cup , the players also had to fit in the Benson and Hedges Challenge between the fourth and fifth Tests , a jamboree dreamed up to latch on to the sporting frenzy which the TV and marketing people had decreed would seize the nation when the America 's Cup yacht races were staged off Fremantle . |
| 25 | Sandy had to play in the PGA Benevolent Society pro-am the next day at Sunningdale . |
| 26 | I had to look in the top of his wardrobe . |
| 27 | To do this , I had to look in the directory . ’ |
| 28 | We all had to help in the dairy . |
| 29 | ‘ He was n't , but I told him that Sean 'n' Michael was havin' hard times and had to draw in the reins a bit . |
| 30 | We worked with two pens in the one hand , one for black ink and one for red , and at each weather station we had to draw in the symbols for wind speed and direction , barometric pressure , temperature , cloud type , amount and height , and precipitation , all in black , and the wet bulb temperature and dew point in red . |