Example sentences of "she had [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It was a gallant bid by Pegg to win her first title , and she showed tremendous determination for she had to use crutches after damaging a kneecap last week . |
2 | She says at school she had to wear splints on her legs . |
3 | She had to smooth things over . |
4 | He nodded with patronising approval , and she had to do battle with an urge to pick up the nearest heavy object and hurl it at his infuriating head . |
5 | Above all she had to suppress thoughts of James Halden . |
6 | But she had to take care . |
7 | She had to wait weeks before she could have the floored laid , you know , tiles her floor . |
8 | Buzz sensed that she had to be careful , she had to box clever , she had to let Adam think she had accepted what he said and would go quietly . |
9 | She had to let imagination take over . |
10 | On two occasions she had to cancel engagements , on others she looked pale and sickly , acutely aware that she was not helping her husband . |
11 | She told the court that to save Ryan she had to kill Ben . |
12 | She had to see Ratchette and try and undo some of the damage that had been done there . |
13 | But she had to see Corosini . |
14 | She had to go food . |
15 | well she brought the meal and she , she had to go miles to get the sauce , did n't she ? |
16 | She had to seduce Jim by whipping off a false beard disguise and transforming herself into an exotic belly-dancer . |
17 | and all Julia wanted was more and more and more money , there was a conflict on how many gran children she could have and sometimes she had five in there , one of them which was then very small which she had to spend time feeding and that and that was Kerry |
18 | and she had to ask Reception for another vase because the first one was full up . |
19 | Ari , however , found the leave-taking sorrowful , not least because she had to say goodbye to the jellycrusts . |
20 | But today was Monday , the first and the worst day , getting used to the maverick wind , going as slow as possible up to the corner where she had to say goodbye to Izzy and face it all alone . |
21 | If he had not been there , none of it would have happened , but because he was there , she had to retain control . |
22 | She had had no life of her own for several years ; if she went out for half an hour , she had to leave messages all round the flat , telling Yury she 'd be back soon , otherwise he would panic . |
23 | If by working with Roirbak it meant she had to leave Star Eye , it might be for the best . |
24 | But for her own peace of mind she had to put matters straight . |
25 | Following article in the last issue on ‘ returning to work ’ felt that there was another side to the coin and felt she had to put pen to paper to balance out various viewpoints . |
26 | She had to put water in it to stretch it , but it was still a decent cup of coffee by his standards . |
27 | But she felt she had to obey Thérèse . |
28 | Fear stalked her sleep , because however far she could drive her anxieties from her mind by activity in the daytime , she had to relax control when she sought sleep . |
29 | In the first two years of office she had to give way to Cabinet pressure on pay rises for MPs , the scale of public spending cuts in November 1981 , gas prices , the Rhodesian settlement , the compromise on the EEC budget ( faced with the implicit resignation of Lord Carrington , who had negotiated it , if she did not accept ) and , while Mr Prior was at Employment , action against trade union immunities and the closed shop . |
30 | There always had been these moments between them when she had to give way , against reason , against sense : he simply had to win . |