Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Hick had to wait 48 hours to chalk up the final six runs to complete the milestone after reaching 82 not out on Thursday . |
| 32 | He only had to wait 6–8 weeks . |
| 33 | They had to wait 20 minutes for a train to take them back the way they 'd just come from , then hire cabs to return to the Five Ways area . |
| 34 | Lord Coulsfield said the sentence would have been longer but for the fact that after the crimes were brought to light , the accused had to wait 15 months for his court appearance . |
| 35 | Rescuers had to wait 40 minutes while power to 780 homes at Shotton Colliery , Durham , was turned off before the body could be moved . |
| 36 | As for the computer password , on the other hand , this reviewer guessed it in one and had to wait twenty-odd pages for Casaubon to catch up . |
| 37 | In hospitals without a psychiatric unit , patients usually had to wait several days before being seen by the psychiatrist , occupying medical beds and often antagonizing the medical staff by their presence . |
| 38 | cos er , you have to wait three days for it , and then cheque 's got ta clear in the bank , it 's like our Mark he had a cheque put in his , he had to wait three days before it cleared went in on the Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , do n't count Saturday , Sunday , Monday , cleared by Tuesday dinner time |
| 39 | ‘ Little Fav ’ ( he seemed everybody 's favourite , with his bouncy , cheerful disposition ) had to wait three years before his next Test appearance , though he continued to bamboozle many a batsman in domestic cricket . |
| 40 | Drivers and conductors had to wait three years , they had to be employed three years before they were accepted into the pension scheme but you know , believe me I 'm glad that I paid in for it . |
| 41 | I went to the doctor , but he just sent a letter to the Detox Unit and I had to wait three months [ for the appointment ] . |
| 42 | ‘ If we had to wait three months for this money , then fill in a new form to open a different account , just like a new investor in fact , it would not be a bad idea to see if any other society was offering a better rate than the 8.85 per cent offered by ‘ Prime Gold ’ . |
| 43 | Pairs of syllables carefully synchronised were then presented dichotically to subjects who had to report both syllables on each trial . |
| 44 | Specifically , for the verbal task , subjects had to report 3-letter nonsense syllables presented in either the left or right hemifield and , for the spatial task , they had to locate the position of a dot in a rectangle exposed within one or other visual field . |
| 45 | ( 'Sorry I 'm late — I just had to confirm some bookings on our European tour . |
| 46 | The first three years of his Oxford course of studies would have included grammar , logic and rhetoric ( the trivium ) , after which the student had to attend formal sessions of dispute and argument before becoming a Bachelor of Arts and going on to the second part of the course , music , astronomy , geometry and arithmetic . |
| 47 | One consequence was that Pitt had to float special government loans at high discounts , because he could not secure a sufficient sum from the " market " . |
| 48 | No , I had to borrow some money off Maggie this morning to pay me bill . |
| 49 | Tottenham had to thank another youngster for keeping them in a position to fight back . |
| 50 | In December 1966 , police had to evict anti-war demonstrators from the Berkeley campus , and , as student leaders called for a campus strike , they started singing the old student favourite ‘ Solidarity Forever ’ . |
| 51 | Each tenant had to mow three days in autumn , and gather nuts for one day ; each gave a hen at Christmas and ten or twelve eggs at Easter to the warden of the forests between Oxford and Stamford Bridges , to make up his farm . |
| 52 | Experienced planners could do this job in three or four hours — we had to arrange four meetings each lasting three and a half hours and they still only just got it done . |
| 53 | Prince Eugene of Savoy , until his death in 1736 the most famous commander in Europe , had to wear civilian dress when he appeared at the Habsburg court . |
| 54 | Men had to wear rough cotton shirts and white corduroy jackets and trousers , to be easily visible . |
| 55 | Until then , drivers had to wear protective capes . |
| 56 | Although at first , women had to wear white dustcoats and men 's hats , new uniforms were eventually provided which suited the female figure . |
| 57 | Gone are the days when you had to wear cosmetic colours that matched your brows or hair . |
| 58 | Now she had to wear this metal cage to stop the bones in her neck crumbling . |
| 59 | He said he had to conduct some business with the grain merchant . |
| 60 | And , and then er at that particular time you know and er then unemployment you , I you had to see each firm was issued with the and the firms had to agree that you had to sign a contract of employment so that er if you were leaving or he was paying you off , you had to be given two weeks ' notice either way before they pay you off . |