Example sentences of "had [to-vb] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took a turn on a rope slide and had to sit on a tractor tyre on the way down . |
| 2 | It was during the filming of the opening titles for the last ‘ Marti ’ series for the B.B.C. Dressed in a red chiffon evening gown , high heels and lead-weighted knickers , I had to sit on a rock at the bottom of a tank full of sharks , smiling and brushing my hair , while Duncan swam past with a plywood plaice bearing the immortal words ‘ End of Part One ’ ( it could have been the end of several parts ! ) . |
| 3 | One of us had to sit on the floor of the phone box while the other stood up and rested on the shelf where you open out the directories . |
| 4 | So , they could n't get it into their heads that you had to sit on the floor . |
| 5 | You know that that 's about all the room there was was honestly was a table and chairs and more often than not a couple of us had to sit on the stairs . |
| 6 | ‘ Sometimes I had to sit on the tobacco setter , putting plants in the ground , but one summer was enough for me , ’ she recalls . |
| 7 | A man in Chippenham , Wilts , had to clamber on the roof of his car after being marooned by floods . |
| 8 | The decorative potential of ivory and its pleasant feel were first explored by Upper Palaeolithic man , but more sophisticated uses of the material had to wait on the development of more complex societies marked by more or less pronounced hierarchies . |
| 9 | From there we went in a funny little train with open trucks which fascinated Tim , until we got to a railway junction where we had to wait on the station for some hours for another train to take us to Calcutta . |
| 10 | Substantial supplies had to wait on the mining of reefs first found as late as 1880 outcropping on the Tawmaw plateau . |
| 11 | The French economy was so weak that in 1953 it had to renege on an OEEC agreement of two years earlier . |
| 12 | The Tri-star jet was two hours late on take-off from Heathrow , and then had to abort on the runway at lift-off point due to a sudden failure of one of the engines . |
| 13 | That 's right they had to go on a rota . |
| 14 | In the morning I explained to Diana and Mary that I had to go on a journey , and would be away for several days . |
| 15 | I 've got this friend who is slim , and she keeps saying she has to go on a diet , so you think : well , if she had to go on a diet , what must I be like ? |
| 16 | She had to go on a bus actually . |
| 17 | As a student on Imperial College 's petroleum geology MSc course , Mujadid had to go on a number of field trips during his year in the UK , but had not been able to buy suitable clothes for the British climate back home in Karachi . |
| 18 | Her new liver took straight away but she had to go on a ventilator because she was having problems with her lungs . ’ |
| 19 | Nicola had gone out about 9 a.m. saying she had to go on an executive management training course on How to Piss People About in advance of her new job . |
| 20 | erm if you had to go on the road it would have been different . |
| 21 | And there was an occasion when we were at a chapel anniversary service and Mother had to go on the platform to sing . |
| 22 | I moved on from that then I was fifteen then , and me Dad was he was a butty and er so er I had to go on the face then . |
| 23 | Now he might remember I think the court come just before the after Nicola , and the car was going to because I know we had to go on the train to Liverpool and er , I 'd got ta give evidence as well , they made such a palaver ! |
| 24 | And of course I had to go on the carpet about that , for laughing . |
| 25 | We had to take the photographs , he had to go on the pitch , did n't he ? |
| 26 | Er taking off and sending telegrams , you see , erm then I was told that the Railway Company wer were taking girls on again , so I applied and I had to go to Ipswich to pass two more exams , you see , and er and started work and the in the Catering Manager 's office at Ipswich Station as , as a clerk doing typing and general office work as the Manager had to go on the district . |
| 27 | The only problem with the job was that I had to work on a lot of Saturdays , which naturally interfered with my athletics , though the company were quite generous in giving me time off . |
| 28 | You presumably had to work on the orchestra section by section . |
| 29 | The next few gybes were the first I had ever done with speed all the way through the turn , in fact , it happened so quickly that I could n't change the rig fast enough — so then I had to work on the rig change . |
| 30 | One had to work on the opposition 's weaknesses . |