Example sentences of "had [to-vb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Now , somehow holding a piton with his useless hand , he had to hammer it into the rock with the other . |
2 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
3 | The cylinders were causing minor explosions and we had to tackle it from the outside , using the protection of adjoining buildings and cars . |
4 | The previous type may then have become invalid , and coin users presumably had to replace it with the new one , a troublesome process , as the volume of some types ran into millions of coins . |
5 | Now , cos I mean do n't forget originally we used to take milk out twice a day , morning and night , because you had to fetch it from the farm . |
6 | Well , you had to give it to the kid for determination . |
7 | ‘ But I already have an assault charge hanging over me , so in the end I had to leave it to the stewards . |
8 | I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure . |
9 | ‘ Our children had to do it in the Cultural Revolutiion ten years later . |
10 | ‘ I did n't know I had to put it on the meat — ’ |
11 | And I had to put it on the seat of my bicycle , push it all the way and it 'd be a good mile from Street to right across from . |
12 | I had to put it on the floor to work the door bar and once I had it open , I slid it out with my foot . |
13 | When you used anything , you had to put it in the Book . |
14 | And you had to put it in the letter box , you dare n't leave it in the in the . |
15 | Started to make some biscuits and then read the recipe afterwards and she had to put it in the fridge for twenty four hours in the , the pastry in the fridge so they could n't make the biscuits , there I 'm sitting here expecting erm , a biscuit and nothing came , dear , it was n't one of those recipes that you could make it straight away was it ? |
16 | And then they decide , found out they had to put it in the fridge for twenty four hours , so there was I sitting there expecting a biscuit , I did n't get one . |
17 | The only problem was that every time he let the dog off the lead it tried to provide itself with a sheep supper , so consequently he had to keep it on the lead and feed it on tins of beans , sausages , bacon and egg , which had so exhausted his stock of food that now he was living on porridge and giving the dog the rest of his sausages . |
18 | The strap is a strong rubber one but I found I had to overtighten it at the surface , otherwise it became loose when my drysuit seal compressed at depth . |
19 | Well , you had to flash it in the doorway , and they 'd see it in any case . |
20 | The poor little cat had never got over its terror of flying , and Mildred always had to prise it from the broomstick whenever she arrived anywhere . |
21 | I had to shout it above the noise of the engine . |
22 | But if it was breakfast , you had to cook it within the half hour and get out . |
23 | And then she put had some warm water and er she had to have it to the proper consistency and then she 'd have a a bucket of water w standing by her side with a a jug . |
24 | Now that I had to get it to the by taxi and she had seven stitches put in the leg and , I had to leave her there for six hours , well then it was a taxi back home , I could n't now I am on income support , but that cost me fifty four pound , ninety five and I am paying that . |
25 | When someone discovered something , they had to explain it to the others , and this reinforced their own understanding . |
26 | Well it should n't it it did i but if you just went up to the top they got a pair of I should think about four or five lengths they had to take it off the sprocket and er course you see they |
27 | but I never had anything , I just went from one to the another , and I had to take it in the hall one day and I was n't , I was never very good at maths anyway , not that kind of maths . |
28 | ’ You had to take it from the inspector , you ca n't answer back . |
29 | So I had to take it from the telesales side to get the appointment to get in the door to do a demonstration and then to do the after sales . |
30 | She only had to make it to the airlock , seal the inner door behind her and wait … . |