Example sentences of "we had [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the pouring rain , we had to contend with mist — luckily we were on a clear path . |
| 2 | That were just the temporary passes for the motorway that we had to return to department . |
| 3 | It is as though we had to talk in order to reassure ourselves that we were living . |
| 4 | In the senior school we had to go into school Saturday morning anyway ! |
| 5 | We had to go to school for we were young . |
| 6 | So , because we were in the A A he said you could have a ba , and we had to go to court , we had a summons for court , for careless driving , your dad and your dad said oh so A A said you could have barrister , or our insurers said we could have a barrister our insurers , not the one with we 're with now Norman , he was to do all the , said we could have this barrister and it was at Liverpool Crown Court and , it was n't till a , and I was alright we we just got a bit of a shock , you know , we could drive the home it was the wing and what not . |
| 7 | We were afraid , but we had to go on shore . |
| 8 | He said we had to pray in church , not out in the woods . |
| 9 | If we had to choose between radiocarbon and TL dating , then we would have to take into account that radiocarbon is used for organic materials and has an upper age limit of about forty thousand years , whereas TL is applied to inorganic samples and can be used beyond the range of radiocarbon . |
| 10 | A police spokesman said : ‘ We had to leave at speed because emotions were running so high . ’ |
| 11 | So , sadly , we had to leave for Siren last November . |
| 12 | Tonight , we had to put in order |
| 13 | Well a very close fought encounter at the stadium ; we had to wait for quarter of an hour for the first actual goal chance when Dave Bristow hit the ball from twenty five yards , which just cleared the bar . |
| 14 | As we were leaving the theatre , we had to wait for Dad to shake hands in the foyer with some dignitaries . |
| 15 | The shoot used to last five or six days in August but you did n't get paid when it was finished — do n't ask me why , but we had to wait until Christmas . |
| 16 | ‘ They found us everywhere so we had to stay under water nearly twenty-three hours a day , and the air was so bad you had to lie down and sleep so you did n't use too much of it . ’ |
| 17 | Initially we had to start from scratch to find out about drug use and drug users , for we were not even one-eyed kings in this land of the blind ; and we quickly found we were delving into a new and complex social world . |
| 18 | Oh no We had to look for work . |
| 19 | We had a hard physical test one morning , which comprised part of our ‘ Certificat Technique Élémentaire ’ , the exam we had to pass on completion of basic training . |
| 20 | So we paid that because they wanted and then we had to pay for stock . |