Example sentences of "had [to-vb] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Their clothes were locked away so they had to remain in the dormitory .
2 As an air-raid had just begun they could not leave and had to remain in an ambience where , as they now acutely realised , they were not wanted and did not belong .
3 Gedanken had to sit in a seat opposite Chris Parker .
4 Apparently they all had to sit in a circle and put their hands on the playing board .
5 We had to sit in the waiting room with everyone else .
6 She had to sit in the waiting-room , on a slippery horsehair sofa , while it was going on .
7 We had to sit in the shade out the road a bit
8 I had to wait in a corridor .
9 So he had to wait in the house and er now it 's bed time now .
10 Well she go Hilda got a baby boy about eighteen month old when I knew her like you know , and er she lived by I think it was I think it was you know and er what happened to her I be I think she had to go in a home or er you see and er baby boy was adopted like , the baby boy that 's about all I know about her that 's about all .
11 had to go in the day .
12 I had occasion to set up the chunky machine ( this had to go in the bedroom , because of lack of space elsewhere ) .
13 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 .
14 But I had to go in the loft .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Before they gave me a bike I had to earn it , I had to work in the garden .
20 She had to try in every direction .
21 And he used to come and they could see him coming for he had to come in a cart .
22 And she had to come in the car while I
23 The agony of the debate was over — although both John Nott and Peter Carrington next had to appear in a committee room upstairs in front of an unhappy party meeting .
24 He had to suffer in a sense by playing in midfield but , with Robbo back , I do n't expect to be playing him there . ’
25 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 .
26 There was no way I wanted to be robbed again and I determined if I had to stand in a queue it would be with this chain in my hand .
27 We had to stand in a line .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 I had to stand in the middle of this studio , the floor strewn with these bones and meat , and play guitar .
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