Example sentences of "had [to-vb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leaders had their work cut out keeping the group together , and one or both had to remain at the back to motivate the slower ones — the most effective method seemed to be carrying their kit , though this tended to be a last resort . |
| 2 | My baby had to remain at the nursing home , as I had no one to look after him , and he was not admitted into hospital because of whooping-cough in the nursery there . |
| 3 | Oh , we had to wait at the border , we had in advance to get visas , and when we got there , things were very simple but nonetheless , we were very well received , and the person that I was staying with , lived in a flat , a very simple flat , but nonetheless , a very pleasant flat . |
| 4 | In many cases the actual amount of information given in the recalls was minimal , limited to whether a subject had to wait at the junction and whether there was other traffic around at the time . |
| 5 | The tank had to go at the end of the little landing . |
| 6 | Yeah , folk here just never been out since New Year , then she had to work at the hospital Tuesday , well Bradley said if you do n't feel fit enough phone up and we 'll send a nurse to you I said you 're bloody mental , you ask for everything you get , I said instead of phoning the nurse in , ah but I think Alison told me they both need a good , good bloody feed they do |
| 7 | He would have done the same in her position if he had to appear at a press conference — appearance was important to Dexter . |
| 8 | They only had to wince at the racket for 20 minutes or so . |
| 9 | There were so many mourners at the funeral that some had to stand at the back and listen to the service relayed by loudspeakers . |
| 10 | Though she was only a part-time whore who ‘ had to stand at the washtub next day . ’ |
| 11 | Christina had to yell at the top of her voice to be heard above the wind , her long hair whipping across her face . |
| 12 | I felt helpless and despairing and suddenly so ill that I had to clutch at the door to stop myself falling . |
| 13 | B. T. When you were going on duty , you had to parade at the station at half past , as a rule — a quarter of an hour before the beat . |
| 14 | Then James had to look at a tray containing 20 objects and , when the tray was removed , see how many he could remember . |
| 15 | They only had to look at the floor of her cockpit to prove that . |
| 16 | On reading the Echo report I had to look at the top of the page to make certain that the date was June 1st and not April 1st . |
| 17 | ‘ It was very time-consuming — you had to look at the jockey , horse and trainer 's charts . |
| 18 | Marcus did n't care what Wilson said , you only had to look at the guy . |
| 19 | Each campesino had been given instructions to always have ready 20 extra tortillas in case we had to leave at a moment 's notice , but even so , it was very hard . |
| 20 | I can excuse him for yesterday as he had to leave at the start of the second half to appear on Question of Sport : - ) . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm told the front rows in the Moore tragedy were so close that they had to bend at the waist to get in ’ , said Akpata . |
| 22 | Reshuffling its North America operations is , ZDS officials say , ‘ part of an effort to make the firm more responsive to the personal computer Unix-based market worldwide … the company had to start at the heart of the problem the bureaucracy in the company . ’ |
| 23 | Still , the tracers had to start at the beginning , their call-finder mechanism racing frantically through the twenty thousand numbers on the exchange . |
| 24 | The curtain went up at 2 pm , so the children had to arrive at the theatre at about 1.15 to get ready . |
| 25 | Ingrid was in fact twenty-nine , which was young compared with Gesner , but not young for a dancer and she found the routines rather a strain , especially when she had to sing at the end of them . |
| 26 | It was n't that the song had a particular relevance — it was n't about AIDS — but it was a song that I felt was the best way of expressing myself and also the best thing I had to offer at the time . |
| 27 | It was thought that if people had to pay at the point of delivery then this might deter some people from using the service . |
| 28 | Read what the movement 's spokesman had to say at the time . |
| 29 | The boys were big time , but we had to have the sound system , the lighting , the stage — everything had to move at the pace of David 's imagination . |
| 30 | I had to tell at the table . |