Example sentences of "she had [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She could n't eat any of her meal and went off to school where she had to sit alongside Mr Clark 's daughter .
2 As it was , she had to draw on reserves of courage she had n't even known she possessed just to get her through the opening number .
3 Also , she wondered if the taxi firms kept any kind of record of their more regular late-night destinations ; if she had to rely on drivers ' memories then there would n't be much hope , since on the evidence of the previous night they 'd mostly be part-timers with a high turnover .
4 On the surface Caesar appeared to be a supremely selfish individual , but then she had to take into account that having virtue he had no need of goodness .
5 ‘ I offered to bring her back again but she said she had to wait for Angharad . ’
6 Doctors told her she needed an emergency hysterectomy , but because of a bed shortage she had to wait in agony for three-and-a-half hours .
7 Soon after I got my English A-level , mum learned that she had to go into hospital for quite a long time .
8 Old Miss Mahoney had a little house in Tanner Road , but she had to go into hospital last week , and if she ever comes out , she 'll have to go into a home for old people .
9 But the smile disappeared to be replaced by a doleful frown when she had to go into dinner herself — and sit next to her husband .
10 No matter how bad the storm was she had to go on deck , where at least the air was clean .
11 If not for the operation it would only be a matter of months before she had to go on Dialysis .
12 Someone brought it in on Saturday and said she had to go to Africa and would I take it . "
13 ‘ I told you , she had to go to Durham . ’
14 He was treated in the ambulance but if she had to go to Oxford he might not have made it
15 Once we had a goose but Mother was so ill that she had to go to bed after she had roasted it .
16 She had to go to 'ospital , right .
17 Obviously she had to go to Dublin and stay in the convent there ; this was the only way she could train for a career .
18 She had to go to hospital , she never did like it .
19 Professionally , her opinion carried little weight , but she had to side with Tom on the issue out of her concern for Faye , and her familiarity with the artist 's problems .
20 One thing she had to say about Dad , at least he had prepped her for the world she was going to have to live in .
21 This may have been an exaggeration based on her own experience , but was related to the attitudes and difficulties with which she had to contend during training .
22 However , first she had to talk to Rob .
23 Kelly decided that she had to talk to Annie , even if there was a risk that she would tell her husband .
24 Paula Yates , for instance , admits in an interview in Woman magazine that she is so thin that she had to put on weight before she could become pregnant .
25 It is right to say that I have heard from Mrs Paul 's classroom assistant during the last academic year , she appears virtually to have acted as an enabler , but she was by no means dedicated to Paul as a one to one enabler and of course the extent of the attention of which she had to give to Paul detracted from her ability to give attention to other pupils .
26 She had to stand on tiptoe to reach the stamp-machine .
27 She had to stand on tiptoe to reach his lips .
28 Nowhere is it suggested that she had to convert from paganism .
29 She had to come to London from Aberdeen with her husband Alexander , a doctor turned printer .
30 She had to come to terms with his loyalties , whatever the pain it caused her .
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