Example sentences of "they had [to-vb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Yes and then being with government people , they had to go on trek |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They had to follow on foot during campaigns . |
| 6 | One suburban Anglican church in Surrey , England discovered on doing this exercise that they had to gain on average thirty-four new members each year just to stay where they were in terms of membership , such was the high level of mobility in their community . |