Example sentences of "had to [noun sg] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time the traffic ceased , they were far too late to carry out a proper raid on the airfield and had to content themselves with shooting up transport along the road . |
| 2 | Given the pressures of external demands , the size of the diocese , and the problems of travelling to over 300 parishes , most bishops and their officers had to content themselves with regular exhortations and punishing the worst , or least skilful , clerical offenders . |
| 3 | Mr Devi Lal , for example , who had been lobbying hard for the home ministry to add to his deputy premiership , had to content himself with the agriculture ministry . |
| 4 | The intrepid manager had to content himself with numbering his reserve teams . |
| 5 | Lord Elphinstone had to content himself with the duke 's assurance that he ‘ would mention to those who mannage my affairs my being honoured with a letter from your Lordship & recommend unanimity upon this occasion … which I hope will be an inducement to the commissioners of supply to settle without varience ’ . |
| 6 | He had to content himself with the fact that it was mostly a one-way affair . |
| 7 | With John Cocks cursing the fact that he had not brought his tripod and frustrated by the lack of lighting equipment we had to content ourselves with lunch sans photography . |
| 8 | Emilia showed little wish to speak , Louisa had to content herself with reading aloud beside the bed , though the books she suggested were soon rejected in favour of such verses as those of Felicia Hemans and Anna Letitia Barbauld — works that were not at all to her own taste . |
| 9 | In the world of education and in the year of the Woods Hole conference , Britain had to content itself with the Crowther Report , which , even at the time of its publication and even more plainly in retrospect , reads more like an epitaph than a prophecy . |