Example sentences of "they had [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My responsibilities vanished but I think they suspected that if I were sacked there would be a public fuss so they had to proceed by stealth . |
| 2 | I had a record company screaming for final mixes , not even sure that they wanted this album because ‘ Space Oddity ’ did n't do too well and as far as they were concerned this was going to be the last they had to do with David Bowie , and I was n't delivering the goods . |
| 3 | It was not so bad for a privileged minority , though even they had to do without modem medicine , and childbirth was highly risky for women . |
| 4 | That bag of vagabonds had to grasp what they had to do in order to get there , which included discipline . |
| 5 | But when they were switched on they blew the main fuses , which deprived them of lighting for the day and taught them why they had to rely on coal fires . |
| 6 | In practice , like Richards , they had to rely on intuition rather than analysis , or at best on the consensus of experienced readers , a consensus which , the recent history of criticism seems to suggest , is not all that often achieved . |
| 7 | The magistrates said they wanted to jail Dines for 3 months but first they had to call for reports . |
| 8 | That was all they were , and they had to go through life like that . |
| 9 | Yes and then being with government people , they had to go on trek |
| 10 | The lawyers commented that the Minister was giving detainees the message that if they wanted their demand for freedom to be taken seriously they had to go on hunger strike and become very ill . |
| 11 | I think their suggestion was that they had to go via Norwood Gardens because they then turned right at the in and went up into the middle of and it was to get them on to that line that they had to go through . |
| 12 | Even in my limited experience I had seen people falling in and out of love , as though , soiled by sorrow and loss , they had to go in search of comfort from one used and lukewarm bath to another . |
| 13 | well I expect if it was a church school they had to put in appearance odd times . |
| 14 | The Romans who settled on the banks of the Rivers Fleet and Thames , were not unopposed ; amongst other difficulties , they had to contend with Boadicea , the fierce lady leader of the local inhabitants . |
| 15 | They had to respond to changes in volume , changes in client , changes in climate . |
| 16 | ‘ So they had to advertise in Melody Maker for a bass player , where they found Bob Brunning , but Peter made the situation clear that the gig was there until he had ‘ persuaded ’ me over . |
| 17 | Boswell employs over a thousand words to describe the Monboddo visit , which began around mid-day , and ended when they had to leave for Aberdeen which they did not reach until late that night . |
| 18 | They had four days together before they had to leave for Estoril and the pre-race qualifying sessions , and by the end of them Kate had to admit that the naïve dreams she 'd had of becoming irresistible to this man were exactly that , and extremely unrealistic into the bargain . |
| 19 | ‘ General Francis and Corporal Wix have been hoping you 'd be back before they had to leave for London . ’ |
| 20 | WIMBLEDON 'S Crazy Gang are returning to Plough Lane , the happy hunting ground they had to leave for safety reasons two years ago . |
| 21 | When the girl asked him where he was going , he told her that they had to return to Moscow . |
| 22 | A group of Russian orphans who spent a three month break in the region have now been offered places at schools in England.Fifty orphans came to the Malvern Hills as guests of local schools.And they were heartbroken when they had to return to Russia.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 23 | But at the end of the summer , they had to return to Le Touquet . |
| 24 | But before Budd came on , they had to listen to Andy Roberts , who stands at the opposite end of ufology to Hopkins and whose new book , Phantoms Of The Sky ( written with Dave Clarke , published by Robert Hale ) , gave the conference its name . |
| 25 | Particularly during the French wars , no merchant might be willing to take them , and then they had to remain in Newgate prison . |
| 26 | and they had to they had to sit in rows and they had to do as they were told and they were n't allowed |
| 27 | Secondly there was the re-examination and reinterpretation of the history of philosophy , looking at philosophers through ‘ the prism of sex ’ to see what they had to say about women . |
| 28 | In the Seventies and early Eighties the general opinion was that for women to ‘ make it ’ they had to act like men but now the rules are different , says author Sally Helgerson in her recently published bestseller The Female Advantage : Women 's Ways of Leadership . |
| 29 | So , I mean , er it 's the proof old folks that get it , they got it in the war time , they had to starve in war time to feed their children . |
| 30 | He argued , quoting The Green Book , that all children should have the opportunity of education , and he thought it most improbable these girls would have this if they had to travel to Zawiya . |